Tuesday, May 5, 2009

How to Design a Website Effectively When Advertising for Lawyers

By Jeff Berman

When you design your website with the needs of the client in mind, you will see very good results. In the following article, I will explain why having multiple calls to action is so important.

When advertising for lawyers on the web, be sure to use multiple calls to action: Different people respond to different stimuli

When designing our website, we can't really tell how others will respond to the design since we all have unique tastes. Just because we like it does not mean someone else will. This is the reason that we offer different ways to contact our law firm.

As an illustration, say I want to write a guide that appeals to people with legal problems in my field of practice. What I need to do is display a professional looking graphic of the guide which also is a link to download page where a prospect receives the guide in exchange for contact information. In addition, I will write a short sentence underneath the graphic which links to the same download page. This way, I will capture people that wish to click on the picture as well as the text.

Another idea is to display your phone number, an offer such as a free case evaluation, and a picture with the same offer on more than just the contact us page of your website. This way a prospect that wants to speak with a lawyer right now can do so. Often potential clients will be at different stages of the process, by providing different methods of contacting you, more site visitors will convert to prospects.

"I know how to advertise my legal website! Just put my info on my contact us section."

Although you should have a contact page which contains all of your relevant information on it, you also need to offer your site visitors a reason to get a hold of you. Think what's in it for them. WHY should they contact you? When you offer them legitimate reasons such as a free e-book or free consultation, then you are appealing to the reasons they WANT to contact you.

By implementing these ideas on your website, you will see how effective advertising for lawyers through the web can be.

About the Author:

No comments: