Organic search visibility refers to how visible your website is in the search engines separately from paid ads. This means organic search rankings cannot be bought and can impact your website’s long-term success more than ad campaigns.
Many factors can influence organic search visibility, including links on your website, the content on your website, how long people spend on your site, your bounce rate, keywords, and even video content.
Although organic search visibility requires consistent effort, executing a well-planned strategy pays off with higher rankings over time. So how can law firms improve organic search visibility? Here are three tips that can naturally result in better rankings over time.
1. Content That Answer Questions
People searching for law topics often have questions, which consist of who, what, when, where, and why search traffic. This traffic presents a significant opportunity to develop blog posts and videos to answer these questions that can support organic search visibility for law firms.
These questions may look like:
- Who is the best attorney to help me with X?
- What should I do when X happens?
- When should I start looking for an X attorney?
- Where do I look to find the right X lawyer?
- Why do I need an X attorney?
Answering these questions has a twofold effect: it provides helpful content to your audience, and it can boost organic rankings. Additionally, when videos provide answers to questions from an attorney, you can build trust for that attorney which increases engagement, return visitors and lead conversions.
2. Expand Your Attorney Bio
Search engines like Google are focusing even more on authority when it comes to content. Therefore, any content your law firm creates for the web must be written by an author with recognized credentials and subject matter expertise.
Of course, as a law firm, your people already have the credentials and expertise—so how do you have your content reflect this?
A simple way is to expand your online bio. Be sure to include specific details about your expertise, such as your background, experience, education, and practice areas.
If you have been published in legal journals or related publications, list the article title, where is has been published along with a clickable link to the article if possible.
It’s also essential to be sure that you, the attorney, are shown as the author on your blog posts. Otherwise, the website may display a default “admin” author, which does not tell your audience (or search engines) who wrote the content and whether they were qualified to write it.
3. Add Legal-Focused FAQs
In addition to answering questions in blog posts and videos, adding frequently asked questions (FAQs) to your law firm’s website is another excellent way to target people searching for information. Questions that address niche topics, rather than broad general topics, often have fewer online competitors for that topic, and as such better opportunities for attaining organic traffic for those niche FAQs.
However, snippets of information won’t show in the search engines on pages that don’t already have good organic visibility.
So, rather than creating a separate FAQ page on your website, try adding FAQs to a specific service page or practice area page that already exists on your site. This way, you can leverage that page’s organic visibility and enhance it even more.
Need Help Improving Organic Search Visibility for Your Law Firm Website?
Organic search visibility is important for any website, but more so for practices such as law firms that provide essential services and information people are searching for. Need help boosting organic search visibility for your law firm’s website? Schedule a consultation with Gazz Digital today to learn more.
