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Lawyers: Six Tips to Enhance your Firm's Website
By Bob Schwartz, CRS, GRI ©2007 Promotions Unlimited All rights reserved.
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Internet marketing success depends on you ability to offer a
legal service that
is beneficial for the potential client. However, just having this may not be
enough if you want to have that extra advantage over your competitors in
internet marketing.
How successful your internet marketing business will be depends on people
visiting your website and becoming a paying client. Therefore, you do not want
to lose a potential client because they do not feel safe or confident enough to
contact you from your website.
So what can you do to set your internet marketing business apart from competing
sites? What can you do to make sure that a customer who comes to your website
will believe that what you say about your practice is actually true? What can
you do to make sure that your prospects will feel comfortable enough to email or
call your office?
The endurance of your internet marketing business depends on having many
clients, and always accumulating new prospective clients.
1. Have your name and contact info on your website. People want an simple and
obvious way to get in touch with you.
2. Have well-placed and effective testimonials on your website. Clients always
want to know that someone you represented was content with your service and
their outcome. Your testimonials must be genuine. They must be honest and
unbiased, and they must point out the satisfaction which the client experienced
after their case was closed.
3. Always think about your reputation. For your internet marketing business to
succeed, you must have a good reputation. There are some websites that have
critiques and comments about other websites that offer services and products
which do not do what they promise. So, you do not want to risk creating a bad
reputation for your website by offering sub-standard services. If you have high
quality services, it is pretty simple to get good reviews from happy clients.
4. Have a third party approval. Because the internet is full of dishonest
people, clients generally tend to be skeptical about online services. Get an
approval from a third party certified customer-interests related or
business-ethics related approver to add some confidence to your prospective
clients. Get these approvals and show them on your website. If you have this
approval, then you have an edge against your competitors, which is very
important for your internet marketing business. I’m talking about logos or seals
from your local chamber of commerce, better business bureau, local city & state
and national law organizations and bars.
5. Have a privacy policy on your website. Spamming is too prevalent online these
days. People are doing all sorts of unethical things with other people's emails.
Have a privacy policy statement on your website and keep that promise. Your
prospective clients will want word that if they leave their email address on
your website, you will not spam them.
6. Be available! Your internet marketing business' website is your shop that
runs all year round, 24 hours per day. Your online business is a international
business – meaning you can get customers from anywhere in the world. As a
result, you must be available to respond to any questions. Check your emails at
least couple of hours. Be prompt in answering questions.
In summary, just go that 'extra mile' for your potential Internet clients and
make them feel safe on your site. All these factors are very important for your
legal internet website.
Our specific city legal directory approach provides our clients with a highly
optimized site whose standing can be verified prior to joining. With the guess
work removed, keyword standings and traffic verified, this is a far more cost
saving approach when compared to hiring a professional to do seo on the firm's
own site. Driving this point home is the fact that with multi-year algorithm
changes by the search engines, and thousands of new sites fighting for top
positions, SEO to be successful must be an on-going labor intensive process.
Copyright 2007 Promotions Unlimited SEO services All rights reserved.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bob Schwartz runs 15 legal directory sites, a few of which are: San Diego
lawyers,
Sacramento lawyers,
San Jose lawyers, Riverside lawyers, Austin
lawyers. Promotions Unlimited started out as a general search engine
optimization firm but has morphed into a specialized search engine optimization
service. Our attorney client’s results through our directories have proven to be
far more cost effective compared to Yellow Pages advertising. What is surprising
to us is the amount of skepticism still prevalent among legal practitioners
about the effectiveness of the Internet to generate new business. Some times old
habits die hard!
In November 2006 Bob's legal websites generated over 42,290
unique visitors.
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