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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Trends in SEO for Lawyers

•Social Media Optimization: Search engines such as Google and Bing have integrated social search to show law firm web results that are more personally relevant. Google looks at many signals to determine a page's relevance and ranking, including social signals from Google +1 and other social media services.
•Local Optimization: Google Place Pages play a prominent part in the attorney search results, so having an optimized profile is essential for any locally-focused firm.
•Site Speed Optimization: Site speed is now a factor in search rankings. Site speed has always been important to site visitors who will quickly back out of a website that takes too long to load and now, search engines are factoring that experience into search results.
•Advanced Video Optimization: YouTube and video sites were virtually untouched by Google's recent Panda updates. Video sitemaps should be used as well as testing a variety of videos in order to optimize visibility in search.
•Competitive SEO: SEO is now a big part of most lawyers' companies' website marketing plans. SEO teams should know it is essential to gauge the competition and decide what share of the market can be effectively tapped, and which portions won't provide the return firms are looking for.