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Traditional SEO for Law Firms.

Technical, content, and authority, fixed in that order. Built around the operating reality of law firms, where cost per lead (pi) sits at $200-$2,000+.

Why this matters

Why law firms need SEO built around their unit economics.

Law Firms run on numbers that punish generic playbooks. PI keywords are the most expensive in US digital, $200+ CPC in many metros, and the highest-LTV signed cases pay for it. The agencies that win in this vertical do not run the same auction strategy they ran for a B2B SaaS account last quarter, they run a program built around how law firms actually convert.

Inparlor's Traditional SEO engagement for law firms reflects that. Traditional SEO is the unglamorous discipline of fixing crawl, on-page, and link signals so the pages you already have rank for what they should. The deliverables below are scoped against the unit economics, signed pi case value (avg) of $25,000-$80,000.

Where most agencies treat law firms as another vertical to learn on, we treat the vertical as the starting point. Intake conversion is where most signed-case revenue is lost; firms with intake SLAs convert 2-3x better. We will tell you on the first call which of those constraints is binding and which is solvable inside the engagement.

What we deliver

Scope built for law firms.

  • Technical audit, Screaming Frog plus log file analysis when applicable
  • On-page audit of top 50 pages by traffic and intent
  • Keyword strategy aligned to commercial intent
  • Content brief production, 4 to 8 briefs per month
  • Editorial calendar and ownership
  • Internal linking program
  • Digital PR and link earning (not link buying)
  • Schema markup implementation
Law Firms benchmarks

Real numbers from the vertical.

$200-$2,000+

Cost per lead (PI)

$80-$400

Cost per lead (family law)

$3,000-$8,000

Cost per signed case (PI)

$25,000-$80,000

Signed PI case value (avg)

$3,800/month

SEO engagement starts at

Our Law Firms-specific approach

How SEO runs in law firms, operationally.

  • Technical baseline before content

    Crawl budget, indexation, schema, and Core Web Vitals, first. There is no point investing in content if the technical layer is leaking authority through misconfigured canonicals or bloated indexation.

  • Content briefs with embedded EEAT signals

    Author bios, source citations, internal-linking instructions, query patterns to target. Writers know exactly what 'good' looks like, and editors have a measurable bar to enforce.

  • Digital PR over link buying

    We run original research and journalist outreach. We do not run guest-post networks or PBNs. The link profile we build is the link profile a Google manual reviewer would approve.

  • Local SEO included for service-area businesses

    Google Business Profile, citations, review acquisition, and local landing pages are part of the standard scope for service-area verticals. Local results compound differently than national.

FAQ

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