Friday, October 10, 2008

Denver Law Firm Seeking Web Design

Most Denver lawyers already have a law firm website and most are outdated and do little for their law firm.

Most Denver lawyers also don't realize what a web presence can mean for their business. Many law firms in personal injury have caught onto this as have criminal lawyers in the state. That's why the competitive nature of search phrases for lawyers in your state is so fierce.

If your practicing law in any state you can't survive with online recruitment of new customers WITHOUT search engine optimization. Furthermore, unless you deal with someone who knows what they are seriously doing with SEO with law firm websites then you'll just be burning your money by going with a low balling priced SEO expert. This is a highly competitive industry and I'd be very weary of low priced SEO consultants.

Your best bet is researching your potential web designer & search engine optimizer when finding someone or a company to take on your Denver law firm web project.

Here are some tips on finding the right Lawyer Web Designer:

Portfolio: Look over the company or person's portfolio to ensure they can back up their word with their work. If their portfolio looks like all templates, it probably is. They probably just stole their portfolio off a template website.

Original Design: Getting a law firm website to rank high requires a custom design. A template based (super-cheap) way of getting your website high on the search engines will end in failure. Think about it this way. 20 law firms take the same group of templates and use them for their website. Google see's this when you submit your site to its search engine and sandboxes (bans) you from high ranking listings.

Who Are You Working With: Do they live locally in your area? Can you call them during normal business hours? If they don't answer the phone do they call or email you back with an answer or a solution within 24 hours? Do they use proposals, contracts, and invoices? Or do they take the money and run? Are they an LLC, LLP, or established business... or just some guy out of his mother's basement? Don't get screwed and left with a website that does nothing!

Pricing: We live in an economy where people get paid for what they do. When you pay less, you get less no matter who you deal with. An inside tip. Website designers who will charge you $500 or less will typically use a template (a big no-no for lawyers websites) and either get it for free or for pay $70 and then change some text on the website, submit it to google (which takes 10 seconds) then pocket the rest of the money for their "hard work". Established web designers who consistently deliver results have realistic prices that deliver results and bring a postitive ROI for their customers.

Iniquitous is a web design/SEO company in Denver focused on providing high quality internet marketing and web site development services. We provide ecommerce, custom application development, search engine optimization (SEO), flash design and more to Denver, Colorado. We also provide web design services nationwide.

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Great post, It is so important that website design for law firms is done correctly to contribute to their image and objective.

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