Immigration Lawyer Marketing
Digital Marketing Solutions to Grow Your Immigration Law Firm
Why Immigration Law Firms Need Digital Marketing in 2023
Whether you’re a solo immigration lawyer or if you’re part of a multi-location immigration law firm, you know that you need a steady stream of leads to grow your business.
A good marketing strategy can improve your online footprint and bring in consistent qualified leads. This lets you get back to doing what you do best-practicing law.
But, as you know, immigration law in the United States can be incredibly complex. Most of the current immigration laws are upheld by the federal government, but many states also enforce their own specific immigration laws. So, when you partner with a digital marketing agency, it’s important that you select a law firm marketing team that understands your options for attracting new clients.
Work With an Award-Winning Law Firm Marketing Agency
At Digital Logic, we’ve helped immigration law firms across the United States with website design, pay per click advertising, and search engine optimization services.
The best tactics for law firm digital marketing change constantly. But, you can focus on your daily activities knowing that your online marketing campaign is in our reliable hands.
This guide explains how the digital marketing experts at Digital Logic tailor your immigration law firm marketing strategy to your specific needs. Our proven methods help our legal clients get more leads, as well as better quality leads.
More leads and better quality leads means more quality clients.
Immigration Attorney Marketing Strategy
Lawyer marketing is an extremely competitive landscape. So, in order to stand out, you need to partner with a digital marketing company that has extensive experience marketing for your legal niche, specifically.
Online marketing, when executed correctly, is complex. In order to be successful, you need a cohesive, multifaceted immigration lawyer marketing strategy that is able to attract immigration clients to your website, positions your immigration practice as the local authority, and converts those website visitors into paying clients.
A personalized marketing plan can help your immigration law firm accomplish specific business goals while stretching your marketing budget further.
Similarly to how lawyers have unique aspects that make them the best choice for certain cases, digital marketing agencies also have specific strengths that make them the best choice for certain industries.
Digital Logic is a uniquely-positioned, boutique-style law firm marketing agency. We’ve helped law firms across the United States realize their potential by offering professional and affordable digital marketing solutions that also follow lawyer advertising rules. We realize that every law firm is unique and requires a unique marketing strategy.
Marketing Specifically for Immigration Lawyers
Immigration firms have the potential to be very successful, even as smaller law firms or sole practitioners. However, every immigration law firm needs to be able to adapt to the ever-changing immigration laws (especially in this crazy, political time).
This also means that whatever digital marketing agency you select for your monthly SEO services, monthly PPC services, monthly social media marketing services, etc. needs to be adaptable, as well.
The days of traditional marketing-billboards and park benches-are over. More potential clients than ever are using search engines, like Google, to search for immigration legal services. If you want to reach more immigration clients, then you need to have a strong web presence.
Lawyers who have chosen smaller, more adaptable marketing agencies to carry out their online marketing campaigns have been better able to tap into new sources for leads, have higher conversion rates, and in the end, are more profitable than those who haven’t.
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Digital Marketing Services for Immigration Lawyers
Immigration Law Firm Website
The single biggest mistake that a law firm can make these days is not having a website. Another huge mistake is never updating your law firm’s website.
While law firms may have been able to rely on word-of-mouth advertising in the past, many who have relied on this method are now struggling. Actually, they’re extremely behind, in terms of being relevant in the eyes of their target audience.
Your website should be the foundation for all of your digital marketing efforts. All of your search engine optimization, pay per click advertising, and social media marketing efforts should point back to your website.
Over 1/3 of the people looking for legal services turn to Google, before they ask a friend or family member.
If you don’t have a website or if your website isn’t able to be easily found, then you are 100% missing out on leads.
Additionally, when website visitors land on your website, they expect to see a professional design. If your website is outdated, the vast majority of your website visitors will leave immediately and visit your competitor’s website, instead.
Your immigration law firm’s website should be your number one marketing tool. It should work as an online salesperson all of the time.
In order for your website to accomplish this, it needs to show your prospective clients that you offer professional legal services and provide positive results for your immigration clients. Your website also needs to show that your immigration firm is relevant. That you stay up to date on the latest immigration laws. That you, specifically, are the man or woman for the job.
At Digital Logic, we’re a professional immigration attorney marketing agency with a proven track record for success. We have experienced in-house website designers who can create beautiful websites that are able to house our clients’ long-term marketing goals, regardless of how much the firms grow.
Our legal marketing agency is able to provide an array of digital marketing services in-house because we’ve hired the best talent in every area of online marketing that we take on.
The professional website designers at Digital Logic create all of our immigration law firm’s websites to include:
Clean Website Design
Your website needs to be easy to find, easy to look at, easy to navigate, and provide easy ways to contact your immigration law firm.
At Digital Logic, we ensure that all of our website designs are clean and neat, while capturing the unique essence of the client we’re working with.
Testimonials and Reviews
Lawyers have to walk a fine line, when it comes to adding reviews and testimonials to their websites. You must be careful to follow the American Bar Association’s rules regarding legal advertising.
When you partner with a digital marketing company to carry out your marketing plan, make sure that you’re sure they aren’t going to put your immigration law practice at risk.
Mobile Responsive
Your potential clients are more likely to visit your website from a mobile device than a laptop or desktop.
So, if your current immigration website doesn’t transition seamlessly from desktop to mobile devices, then those website visitors aren’t going to waste time trying to zoom in on your web pages.
Law firm marketing is much, much too competitive for that.
Additionally, Google understands the way that their users use the platform. They’ve seen more success with responsive websites when compared to unresponsive sites. So, they incentivize business owners to invest in mobile responsive designs by ranking those websites higher on the search results pages.
Bilingual or Multilingual Services
Immigration law firms should certainly consider their target audience when they choose a digital marketing company to partner with. While most United States courts conduct their day-to-day interactions in English, many of your clients speak Spanish.
If your immigration firm’s staff is bilingual or multilingual, your website should capitalize on this additional ability.
At Digital Logic, we implement this unique opportunity into our digital marketing strategies. We’ll help you prepare videos or content in multiple languages to better reach your target audience.
Immigration Service Pages
Immigration lawyers typically handle a wide variety of immigration related issues. These issues can range from form-based practice areas to litigation that must be handled in court.
So, your immigration law firm website should list all of the practice area subsets that your immigration law firm handles.
We recommend starting with the following practice area examples: adjustment of status, marriage visas, fiance visas, work visas, VAWA petitions, U-visas, removal defense, and asylum.
For many of your potential clients, the stakes for success are high. He or she may only have one opportunity to succeed in whatever immigration matter they need your assistance with. You know, as well as we do that your prospective clients are investing their hard-earned (and many times, limited) money into legal services. So, you can bet that they will research several immigration law firms. They’ll scan over all of your immigration content.
So, your practice area pages should be professionally written and easy to understand.
Fast Website Speed
Nothing will ruin a website visitor’s experience faster than a slow moving website. In fact, if your website doesn’t load within 3 seconds, then over 95% of your website visitors will bounce, or leave your website.
Web pages that have a high bounce rate will eventually drop (or will quickly drop in competitive markets, such as the legal sector) on Google’s search engine results.
Optimized for Search Engines
Your website’s structure can directly affect how well you’re ranked on Google’s search engine.
If your immigration website isn’t current or optimized for mobile, or if it doesn’t load quickly or use the correct website structure, then you’re losing out on quality immigration leads.
We’ve seen several law firms hire a big-box agency to build their websites. Then, they’ll continue to pay that company for overpriced monthly marketing services that don’t do anything to drive traffic to their sites.
This not only wastes your money, it also hinders your ability to convert leads into new clients.
If you’re an immigration lawyer that’s interested in growing your law firm over the long haul, then hiring a big-box marketing agency (or even a website development only agency) to provide monthly marketing services isn’t a good idea.
Is your immigration law firm’s website outdated and in desperate need of a cleaner, more professional look?
Our website design team will build your website with your specific marketing goals in mind.
SEO for Immigration Attorneys
Immigration attorneys need a multi-faceted marketing strategy to be successful.
Search engine optimization, or SEO, is an absolutely necessary digital marketing strategy, if you want your website to rank well on search engines, like Google. A good SEO strategy will increase both the quantity and the quality of your inbound leads.
When it comes to search engine optimization, the underlying principle is really pretty straightforward. However, the implementation of SEO strategy isn’t nearly as easy as it sounds.
We’ve already established that many of your prospective clients are searching for immigration services on Google.
Google provides searchers with direct access to local resources, such as Google Maps and Google Reviews. It also quickly provides answers to essentially any question the searcher may have.
The higher your immigration website ranks on Google’s search engine, the better the chances that potential clients visit your website.
And, in order for your immigration firm’s website to outrank other immigration lawyers in your area, you’ll need to partner with a law firm marketing agency that understands how to leverage the power of Google to help you reach more potential immigration clients.
At Digital Logic, we provide complete SEO services, including law firm backlink building and law firm content marketing services to law firms across the United States. Our SEO experts have the knowledge and experience required to rank your website on Google and other search engines.
How Does SEO Work?
The goal of SEO strategy is to tell Google (and other search engines) what your immigration site is all about and help search crawlers navigate your website more easily.
While catering to Google is important, it’s equally important to remember your potential clients, as well.
The key is to create content that educates and informs your prospective clients while providing the additional tactics that Google search prefers in order to rank the website higher in the search results.
When immigration lawyers partner with Digital Logic for legal SEO services, at minimum they receive the following:
Keyword Research
If you already have an immigration lawyer website, then our team of SEO experts will conduct an in-depth audit for absolutely free. We will look at what is already performing well and identify potential areas of opportunity. We'll used marketing tools, such as AhRefs, Google Keyword Planner, Google Search Console, etc. to help us identify the most relevant keywords that provide the highest chance of conversion in your area. From here, we'll work with you to develop a personalized SEO strategy, based on our extensive keyword research, that will help us meet your specific marketing goals. We'll take that strategy and apply the right techniques to improve your on page SEO and off page SEO.
Online Directories and Google Business Listings
Immigration lawyers and law firms should aim to appear on as many local directories as possible, if they want to reach more new clients online. This is one of the easiest ways to generate leads organically. At Digital Logic, our marketing team will add or update the name of your legal firm, your firm's address, phone number, business hours, website URL, and photos of our law office on all relevant directory listings, including your Google My Business profile. We'll also ensure that all of your information is consistent across all of those directories. The easier that Google's search engine crawlers are able to identify you as an immigration lawyer and trace all of your online content back to your website, the more they'll consider you an authority of immigration law. And, thus, the higher your website will rank on the search engine results pages.
Content Marketing Strategy
When immigration attorneys hear the words, "immigration lawyer marketing ideas" or "online marketing content," they tend to immediately think of the top-level service keywords, the keywords that your service pages, or "money pages" are based around. They visualize keywords such as, "Arizona immigration attorney". However, the ability to rank those higher-level practice area pages takes a lot more than simply creating the pages and "sprinkling a little SEO" on there. If you want to rank your practice area pages organically, you need to invest in content marketing, as it is an invaluable part of SEO. At Digital Logic, our approach to ranking for those high-value search terms hinges on our ability to create useful supporting content for those high-level service pages. And, while, trust us, we understand that those pages won't necessarily convert a potential immigration client overnight, they do provide our immigration lawyer clients with a constant stream of qualified leads, once we start building out the content.
Local SEO Strategy
Local SEO is just like traditional SEO, except it focuses on ranking for local relevant keywords. Many of your ideal clients will search for your legal services using location-based search terms, as well as Google Maps. So, until your immigration law firm is nationally recognized, we'll focus on ranking your website for local search queries related to immigration law. At Digital Logic, our marketing team will optimize your Google Business account, Avvo profile, and any other directory listings for local SEO. We accomplish this by adding location-specific terms, based on our extensive keyword research, and including them in your headings, alt text, and anywhere applicable on directory listing.
Many other necessary components of immigration lawyer SEO require very specific expertise. Once we start diving into the specifics, we typically start seeing eyes glaze over, so we’ll spare the extra details here.
If you’d like more information, we recommend that you speak with a professional agency, like Digital Logic.
Immigration Lawyer Ads
While organic traffic strategies will definitely help your law firm online, the process doesn’t happen overnight. Cultivating large amounts of target clients via organic inbound marketing does take time, if done correctly.
However, if you are an immigration attorney who needs more clients ASAP, then the fastest way to get there is through online paid advertising methods, namely Google Ads (formerly Google AdWords). If you want your immigration firm to show up for relevant keywords, especially on the first page of Google, then the only immediate way to accomplish this is through search ads or local service ads.
There are a host of online advertising platforms and social media channels that allow anyone to set up and manage their own paid marketing campaigns. But, it’s important to remember how competitive the legal marketing industry is, as well as how steep the learning curve is for creating professional PPC ads.
PPC ad campaigns can provide an excellent return on investment when executed properly.
>But, learning from your mistakes can easily cost your immigration firm tens of thousands of dollars, without providing any new clients. Botching a PPC ads campaign is the fastest way to waste your entire marketing budget.
At Digital Logic, we seriously have some of the best PPC management specialists, zero question. We offer cost-effective solutions, transparent billing, and our word that we’ll get your immigration firm a better ROI than anyone you’ve hired in the past.
Our PPC management services help build brand awareness for immigration attorneys and generate leads that will actually convert into clients. Because of our extensive knowledge of the platform, we’re able to target clients better than most marketing agencies. And, the better your ability to target those high-value clients correctly, the higher your return on investment is going to be.
Professional PPC Campaign Management for Immigration Lawyers
When you partner with Digital Logic for PPC management services, your:
- ad campaigns include the best keyword selections
- marketing budget is set to bring in the best ROI (even if this means that you don’t spend your entire ads budget)
- ads comply with Google’s latest algorithm updates and best practices
- ad groups have a dedicated landing page built by a professional website designer and optimized by an in-house SEO expert
- ad relevance is always solid
- display ads are designed by a professional graphic designer
- law firm or point of contact is able to track all of your data at any time
You really cannot put a price tag on an exceptionally good PPC account manager.
At Digital Logic, we have more satisfied clients than we ever could have dreamed of when we started. Like our marketing agency, our client’s have experienced more business than they ever thought possible, thanks to our SEO and PPC management services.
Local Service Ads for Immigration Lawyers
Now that individual attorneys have access to the Local Service Ads platform, the ads are taking over the online paid ads market. But, like all other marketing efforts, there is a learning curve.
As local service ads, or LSAs, expand across more service markets, online searchers will start to rely on these specific paid ad types as a resource they can trust. We believe that LSAs will be a top source for finding trustworthy businesses locally.
Get More Immigration Leads with Local Service Ads
Because our marketing agency is a Google Premier Partner, we were given the opportunity to utilize local service ads before they were released to the general public.
So, we’ve seen the benefits of local service ads for immigration lawyers long before they were made available to outside marketing companies.
Thanks to our early experience with these specific ad types, our Google Ads managers are in a better position to run these ads than many other PPC management firms. Actually, one of our clients was recognized by Google on their Economic Impact Report for their extreme success using local service ads. Our in-house ads managers were able to help our client realize a $1.6 million increase in sales in just one year using local service ads. (Our PPC team is seriously just that good!)
Partner With the Best Immigration Attorney Marketing Agency
Immigration attorney marketing takes hard work and a ton of experience. It also requires an extensive knowledge of how Google’s search engine operates and ranks websites.
At Digital Logic, our marketing team is passionate about law firm marketing.
We’ve been able to help so many law firms reach their marketing goals, get more clients than they could handle themselves, and thanks to our dedication, we’ve even helped one entire law firm retire early!!!
When you choose a boutique-style immigration lawyer marketing firm, like Digital Logic, you don’t need to have a deep knowledge or understanding of social media networks, PPC management, link building, or search terms. You just need to keep helping all of the immigration clients that you can. We’ll do all of the heavy lifting for you.
We truly are some of the best at what we do. Let us prove it to you.
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