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Law Firm Marketing on Autopilot

BY Jason Bland | 03-03-2009 | 10:49 AM
This blog is written by a member of our blogging community and expresses that member's views alone.
Legal marketing is all about hard work... for your law firm marketing company, not your law firm.

Perhaps the most intimidating factor of marketing your law firm’s
website is the belief that you don’t have the time to do it. If you are
like most attorneys, this is true; you really do not have the time to
market your website.

Some legal marketing
companies offer website templates which you log into and build. Then,
you have to build links to your website and perhaps manage a blog. Save
yourself time and headaches by working with a company that will put
your law firm marketing on autopilot.

If you are going to embark on a journey through law firm marketing quotes, then here are some questions to ask your prospective legal marketing company:

1) Website – If the company is going to build your
website, always ask for examples. Have them show you fully functional
websites that have been custom built. Cookie cutter websites and template designs do not convert traffic to new cases. To convert your web traffic into new cases, you must have a quality law firm website with web 2.0 standards and marketing/branding techniques built-in.
2) Search Engine Optimization – Ask your prospective legal marketing
company for websites they have optimized. You should ask specifically
for examples of small sole practitioner firms. Larger law firms may pay
the company to do additional search engine marketing that is not
included in the plan they are proposing for you. If a company can get
sole practicing attorneys on the first page with a modest budget, then
they can get any law firm ranked on the first page.
3) Content – Getting ranked on the first page of
Google and other search engines involves link building. The best way to
do that is by writing and distributing press releases, articles, blog
entries, and social networks. Your law firm marketing company should handle all of this and only require you to review written content.

By working with a legal marketing company such as SEOLawFirm.com,
your law firm’s search marketing success can be put on autopilot and
become an asset to your firm rather than a time liability.

To learn more about legal marketing, law firm marketing, and law firm web design, visit SEOLawFirm.com or call 1.800.728.5306.