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Lawyers: Six Tricks to Enhance your Firm's Website
By Bob Schwartz, CRS, GRI ©2007 Promotions Unlimited All rights reserved.
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Your success in internet marketing 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.
The people who visit your site and become paying clients have a large effect
on the success of your internet marketing business. Therefore, you do not
want to lose a potential client because they do not feel safe or sure enough
to contact you from your website.
And how do you set your internet marketing business apart from competing
sites? What can you do to make sure that a prospect who comes to your
website will believe that what you say about your practice is the truth?
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 attaining new prospective clients.
1. Have your name and contact info on your website. People want an
effortless 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 happy with your service
and their outcome. Your testimonials must be genuine. They must be honest
and unbiased, and they must stress the satisfaction which the client
experienced after their case was closed.
3. Always remember your reputation. For your internet marketing business to
succeed, you must have a good reputation. There are some websites that have
reviews 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 not difficult 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 common 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 guarantee 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
does business all year round, 24 hours per day. Your online business is a
global business – meaning you can get customers from anywhere in the world.
As a result, you must be available to provide response for any questions.
Check your emails at least couple of hours. Be prompt in answering
questions.
In short, 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 viewed 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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