Law firm SEO

SEO for lawyers

Someone in your area is searching for a lawyer right now. We build the pages, the profile, and the local signals that put your firm in front of them.

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SEO for lawyers — search results for a law firm on a phone
The map results are what we chase first.

SEO for lawyers is the work of getting a firm found on Google when someone searches for the kind of law it practises. Four things do most of it. Every practice area gets its own page, written around what clients actually type. The firm’s Google profile stays current, its name, address, and phone match on every site that lists it, and the website loads fast on a phone.

Does SEO for lawyers actually work?

SEO works when people near you are already looking for a lawyer who does what you do. Search work puts your firm in front of demand that exists. It does not create demand that was never there. Any lawyer SEO worth paying for starts with that check, and we run it before anyone signs anything.

Firms usually arrive with one of these two symptoms. Both are fixable, and both need the same fix: pages that match what those searchers type. SEO for law firms is a way to be the one they find when they go looking.

What we get you found for — the Map Pack comes first

For a law firm, that looking usually starts in the map results, so the Map Pack is what we chase first. That is the block of three results with the stars and a call button, and it is where a person choosing a lawyer actually rings from.

Organic ranking, the regular results, is the longer build underneath it. We track and report the two as separate lines.

That order is what local SEO for lawyers looks like in practice, and it is the same order we use across our local SEO service.

Google Map Pack results showing DELANA Interiors in second position for kitchen renovation West Vancouver
DELANA Interiors sits second in the Map Pack for kitchen renovation West Vancouver, captured 2026-07-29. A West Vancouver renovation client, not a law firm — proof of method, not proof of vertical.

See your own market before you pay us anything

Before you spend a dollar with us, we show you what your future clients are already typing. Here is one real pull, for one BC market.

Pulled 2026-07-26 Source: DataForSEO, Google Ads data, Canada

Those are searches made by people looking for a lawyer, not our own targets. Tell us your city and your practice area and we will pull yours the same way, dated, before you commit.

A family lawyer isn’t one page

Family dispute, child support, divorce, property division — four different searches by four different people, all inside one practice area. Each one earns its own page.

One practice area Family law
  1. Family dispute its own page
  2. Child support its own page
  3. Divorce its own page
  4. Property division its own page

That is why family law SEO looks nothing like wills and estates lawyer SEO: different questions, different pages. Many firms run one page for a whole practice area, or duplicate pages that compete and split the signal. We build practice-area pages that match what people actually search, whether the firm does family law, wills and estates, or general practice.

How we write and structure those pages
Every month

What law firm SEO services do you get each month?

That page work runs on a monthly cycle — the same set of legal SEO services lands every month, for every firm we work with.

  1. Practice-area pages

    One page for each area of law you take on, written around what your clients actually type into Google.

  2. Google Business Profile posts and reviews

    Regular posts plus steady review chasing, using the same Google Business Profile optimisation work we run for every client.

  3. Local listings kept correct

    Your name, phone number, and details stay identical everywhere they appear online, so nothing sends a mixed signal.

  4. Speed and technical fixes

    The site stays fast and easy for Google to read, with the quiet errors that hold pages back cleared as they appear.

  5. One useful page or article a month

    A fresh page each month answering a real question your future clients ask before they call.

  6. A simple monthly report

    Calls, form fills, and where each one came from. Plain numbers, readable in two minutes.

Law firm SEO pricing

What does law firm SEO cost?

SEO runs inside a package or on its own. Both are priced here in ranges, because scope varies with page count and what is already in place.

Package 1 Website $1,000 – $1,500 build price No monthly plan Talk about this one
Best for
Firms whose website is the problem
What it is
6–8 page site, page per practice area, booking button everywhere
Included highlight
Google Business Profile set up properly, 30 days of fixes
Package 2 Website + SEO $1,500 – $2,500 build price $397 – $1,000a month after that Talk about this one
Best for
Firms who want to be found, not just look better
What it is
Everything in Package 1, plus monthly search work and reporting
Included highlight
Practice-area pages, Google Business Profile upkeep, technical fixes, monthly report
The one we lead with
Package 3 The Complete System $2,500 – $5,000 build price $700 – $1,200a month after that Talk about this one
Best for
Firms losing clients they already earned
What it is
Everything above, plus the full administrative automation layer
Included highlight
Answering, text-back, intake, booking, reminders, follow-up, reviews

Sahara Law Corporation — the firm we built in Abbotsford

Already have a site that works?

We also run these on their own: SEO at $397 – $1,000 a month, or automation at $1,500 – $2,500 to set up, then $250 – $450 a month.

Ask about a standalone plan

What’s in every package

Package 3 is the one we lead with. Google Business Profile work is in every package, and it stays in for as long as we’re working together.

Why the range

The number moves with page count, whether we’re rebuilding, and which services are in scope.

What we do

Every service behind a law firm's search visibility

SEO is one of three things we run for firms. These are the pages that explain each piece, and what it does for a practice.

SEO

The work on this page, and everything it connects to. Practice-area pages built around what clients actually search, a Google Business Profile kept correct, clean listings, and technical health checked monthly — which is also the work that gets a firm surfaced when people ask AI tools.

SEO servicesthe pillar service, and how we run it View Local SEOMap Pack visibility where the firm sits View AI Search OptimisationChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity View Technical SEOsite speed, Core Web Vitals, schema markup View On-Page SEOone practice-area page, done properly View Google Business Profile optimisationin every package, kept current View

Website design

What a law firm website should do: explain the practice, make booking obvious. A page per practice area in plain English, a visible “book a consultation” button, a real About page, and a form that asks what matters. Law firm branding that looks considered, not templated, on any screen.

Law firm website designa page per practice area, and the price up front View Website designhow we build, page by page View Website audit + keywordsa free read on the site you already have View

AI automation

What AI automation does: answer, capture and follow up when nobody’s free. Call answering, missed-call text-back, smart intake and online booking, so no enquiry sits unanswered while everyone is in court. It never gives a legal answer; that stays with the lawyer, always.

AI for law firmsthe phone, the intake and the follow-up, priced in public View AI automation servicesthe administrative layer, set up end to end View AI receptionistanswers when everyone is in court View AI customer servicehandles common questions, never legal ones View AI agent developmentintake built around your matter types View

What makes law firm SEO cost more or less?

Four things move the number. The first is how many areas of law you practise, because each one needs its own page or set of pages.

Add a city and you add work. A slow or thin website has to be fixed before the rest pays off. And a crowded market takes longer to break into, whatever we do.

A quote costs nothing. Send us your website and we will price the work against your own practice areas, your cities, and whether you look after your own Google Business Profile.

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Build your scope

What does your firm practise?

Family, ICBC, criminal, real estate, wills

Where do you want clients from?

Abbotsford, Surrey, Langley

Practice areas

Each one needs its own page, or set of pages

Cities covered

Add a city and you add work

The site you have now

Slow or thin has to be fixed before the rest pays off

Assessed on a call

How crowded your market is

A contested market takes longer to break into

Assessed on a call
Published range $397 - $1,000 / month

That scope sits in the lower-middle of that range.

A guide, not a quote. The site you have now and how crowded your market is are assessed on a call.

How long does law firm SEO take to work?

Map Pack results take about 2–3 months. Organic rankings take about 4–5 months. Those are our general timelines across clients, not a promise about any law firm.

That time is build time, not waiting time, and the work runs in a fixed order.

  1. 1

    Finish the website — every service gets its own page, and practice areas split into the sub-niches people actually search.

  2. 2

    Finish the city coverage — every service page for the city the office is in has to exist.

  3. 3

    Fix the Google Business Profile — services, cities, and pending items, backed by pages that already exist.

What lands when

Map Pack: 2–3 months Organic: 4–5 months

What you actually see each month

One short report, four lines, tracked separately.

Map Pack position
where the firm sits in the three map results for the searches that matter.
Organic rankings
where the firm’s pages sit in the regular results, tracked page by page.
AI search citations
whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews name the firm when someone asks for a lawyer. A standing line with its own work behind it: AI search optimisation.
Enquiries
calls and form fills, and where each one came from.

Separate lines, so a good month in one place cannot hide a flat month in another.

How do you know we won’t do what the last agency did?

Picking a law firm SEO company is mostly about what the agency refuses to do. Four things we don’t:

Keywords get picked from what the firm’s own clients search, never from what reads well in a legal SEO report. We never promise a position in the results.

Law-firm marketing also sits inside advertising rules, and every province has its own law society that sets them. We work inside whichever ones apply to your firm. The Law Society of BC’s are the ones we work under ourselves.

“My law firm in Abbotsford is now getting more clients.”

“Ishaanex Digital has done a great job designing my website and is currently handling its SEO. They are highly reliable and an honest team to work with. I really appreciate the work done by Ishaanex Digital.”

Sahara Law Corporation · Abbotsford, BC · verified Google review

Who this suits, and who it doesn’t

IshaanEx Digital is an Abbotsford, BC digital marketing business that does search work for small and solo law firms across Canada — the Google Business Profile, the practice-area pages, and the monthly reporting behind them. Before you hire any law firm SEO agency, check whether this work fits your firm.

A good fit

  • A firm of roughly 1 to 20 staff — SEO for solo lawyers and small teams is most of our work.
  • People in your city already search for the kind of law you practise.
  • Your law firm website brings in no leads today.
  • You want a law firm SEO consultant who will tell you when something isn’t worth doing.

Not a fit

  • Nobody is free to answer new enquiries. Getting found only helps if someone picks up, so an AI receptionist that answers the calls you miss is the thing to fix first.
  • You need new clients inside a month. Search work will not do that.
  • Nobody in your city is searching for the kind of law you practise — we’ll check before you commit.
Straight answers

Common questions about SEO for lawyers

Why do legal directories like Avvo, FindLaw, and Lawyers.com outrank my firm’s website?
Directories like Avvo, FindLaw, and Lawyers.com are enormous websites with thousands of pages, so search engines trust them for broad legal searches. You don’t beat them with a separate campaign. You beat them as a by-product of your own SEO being good — solid practice-area pages, a complete profile, and listings that match.

Is SEO worth it for a small or solo law firm?
SEO is worth it when people in your city are already searching for the kind of law you practise. Search work puts your firm in front of that demand. It cannot invent demand that isn’t there. If nobody nearby is searching for your practice area, spend the money somewhere else.

Can I do the SEO myself?
Yes, for the basics. Claiming and filling in your Google profile, keeping your name, address, and phone number identical everywhere, and asking happy clients for reviews are all doable yourself. The time goes into the practice-area pages, the monthly writing, and the technical fixes. That is where most firms run out of hours.

Do lawyers need Google Ads as well as SEO?
Not necessarily. Ads put you above the results today and stop the moment you stop paying. Search work is slower to build, but it keeps the position after the spending ends. Plenty of firms run ads while the search work builds, then cut back. We offer ads as a secondary service.

Is SEO still worth it now that people ask AI instead of Google?
Yes. AI assistants build their answers from the same pages and profiles search engines rank, so the work that gets you found also gets you quoted. What changes is what you measure. An SEO agency for lawyers should be showing you whether AI tools name your firm, not only where you sit in the results.

How do I tell if my current SEO is actually working?
Ask for three things: where you sit in the map results for your main practice area, how many calls and form fills came from search last month, and which pages brought them. If those three cannot be produced, the work is not being measured — and unmeasured work is impossible to judge.
Go deeper

More on the search work behind these services

Start with a free SEO audit

We’ll look at your firm’s website and your Google profile, then tell you plainly what is worth fixing and what isn’t. Sometimes that list is shorter than you expect.

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