SEO for Legal Websites

What do you do to promote your law firm in your target market?Hopefully, you do not wait for prospective clients to contact you themselves! If your law firm is in the start up phase, you simply cannot take the chance of under-promotion. Bigger law firms invest huge amount on promotion and works hard to fetch any prospective client. In this situation, you do not loose one business opportunity alone - you actually loose more.Why?Like many other service sectors, one the biggest source of new clients (in traditional market) for a law firm is recommendations from existing or previous clients. A big portion of its growth potential depends on its emphasis on relationship marketing. And good relationship marketing is possible only when you have continuous flow of new clients.Is there any solution to this problem without spending huge amount in direct or indirect traditional advertising?Jill Tower, Esq started his own law firm in 2005 but he could not manage enough money to promote it in the target market.  He was well qualified with good track record, yet his law firm was not growing to its full potential. The main reason was that other law firms in his locality were proactive to sign contract with any prospective client. He did not have enough manpower to get new clients and new business stopped coming when he became too busy with existing clients.In this situation, he started his own website so that people can contact him online. But soon he understood that, having a website is not enough to get new clients - you need to promote it in the web to get target clients who are looking for legal solutions online.He was somewhat disappointed but the best step he took was to talk to a SEO company to know about the process. And he discovered that web promotion was not a rocket science and would not cost him much. Moreover, he could do it himself. And today, he does not need to spend huge time in business development - new clients contact him via his website.This is not the story of Jill alone - most of the law firms have their own websites and they are doing well to get new clients when they are busy with existing clients.In fact, a lot of law firms are taking the extra initiative to invest in PPC or paid inclusion to get more clients. Some of them are proactive and do not want to depend on organic rankings alone. However, like every promotional wing, there are some loopholes in PPC too. If you start investing your entire budget in one search engine alone to get higher ranking, there may be a lot of wastage. You need to strike a balance between different programmes to make the best use of your money.So what are you waiting for?