Improving Google Compliance For MarkDHauser.com
Mark D. Hauser is a Philadelphia-based defense attorney who has worked IntuitSolutions’ marketing team for several years. Recently, we gave Hauser’s website a design upgrade with an eye on boosting his SEO and implementing UX best practices.
Making design and development changes is an important part of optimizing your website for Google’s bots. Google pays attention to your code base, but it also has ways of evaluating whether your site has a modern, user-friendly design. We consulted with Mark to make changes that would boost his Google compliance.
Our team focused on spotlighting Mark’s credentials as lawyer, providing clear CTAs, and improving the information architecture on content-rich areas of the site. This gave him a much more modern and user-friendly site.
Our changes began driving SEO results almost immediately. Within a week, Mark’s bounce rate had dropped dramatically and the average session time of visitors on his site greatly increased.
Within a week, Mark’s bounce rate had dropped dramatically and the average session time of visitors on his site greatly increased.
Homepage Redesign For WordPress
One of our major focuses on Mark’s site was spotlighting markers of trust. When you hire a lawyer, you want to make sure that you’re hiring someone credentialed and trustworthy. If you’re advertising online, your website needs to do that work for you.
Our team decided to put a row of icons showing Mark’s accreditations and positive reviews directly below the main banner CTA. Seeing these markers of objective credibility increases consumer confidence and makes visitors more likely to convert.
Seeing markers of objective credibility increases consumer confidence and makes visitors more likely to convert.
Mark also has a lot of great testimonials from clients. He had this information on his old site, but it was displayed in a text-heavy section in the footer of the page. We consolidated this information into two sliders, one for testimonials and one for successful rulings. This allows Mark to keep the content while displaying it in a more user-friendly way.
Clear CTAs Improve Information Architecture
Mark offers a lot of legal services and serves a diverse client base. We wanted to ensure that the site had the SEO power of including the litany of cases he takes on, but we knew we needed to display that information in a sharper way. Mark’s old site had a long list of services, but we consolidated them into four boxes representing the site’s main general search terms. From there, users can navigate to sub-pages that have more information.
Results After Just One Week Show Major Improvement
MarkDHauser.com began to see positive SEO changes almost immediately after the design changes went live. For example, before the redesign, MarkDHauser.com had a bounce rate of 80% and the average amount of time spent on the site was just 43 seconds.
Your bounce rate refers to the percentage of users who navigate off your website after visiting one page. Obviously, having a lower bounce rate is better – not only because Google’s bots factor it into rankings, but because keeping users on your site is key if you want them to actually convert.
Generally, a bounce rate of 20-40% is considered excellent. A bounce rate of 50-60% percent is less optimal but is acceptable for certain kinds of businesses. For example, a retail store might have a higher bounce rate due to people looking for their hours. However, a bounce rate of above 70% indicates you need to make changes to your site.
As you can see, Mark was able to go from a poor bounce rate to an excellent one in just one week. This is a testament to the power of design and content changes for SEO.
We’re planning to begin implementing additional services for MarkDHauser.com, including PPC ads, so stay tuned for an update!
MarkDHauser.com went from a bounce rate of 80 percent (poor) to 40 percent (excellent) in just one week.
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