Client Details
Australia
Services Provided
General Practice
Project Timeline
12 months
Project Overview
Hunt and Hunt is a boutique legal firm based in Melbourne specialising in commercial work for companies of all sizes as well as government, insurance and matters for private clients.
They approached our team with a brief to improve their SEO for a brand new site. Despite being a substantial practice group with offices in 5 cities, their website ranking was not ideal, and their website itself did not reflect the substance and professionalism of the firm.
Challenge
Part of the key challenge with the Hunt & Hunt business was to conduct a comprehensive keyword research exercise and prepare SEO recommendations encompassing a dual focus on:
- 18 areas of Industry focus and servicing of industry-specific needs (eg. Agribusiness, International Trade, Energy & Resources etc), and;
- 21 areas of Legal Practice Area focus (eg. Corporate M&A, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Employment & Workplace Relations etc)
An additional challenge of the project was to merge both technical SEO considerations, with user experience and usability to deliver not only an SEO friendly technical structure and content base for the site, but a layout and navigation experience that both answered customers questions about the firm, and importantly drove users to the vital objective of getting in touch with partners directly and the firm as a whole.
Solution
We prepared over 100 pages of detailed industry analysis and keyword research in order to guide the firm to a focus on a small number of high priority industries and legal practice areas. Ultimately, we focused in on 6 industries and 5 areas of practice delivering the greatest returns for the practice.
We prepared a new blog structure and content categorisation system that better-allowed google’s search engines, and users to access content in a logical and structured fashion.
We also conducted an iterative engagement with Hunt & Hunt around how to better enable people search and created a dynamic AJAX-based search capability allowing visitors to search by partner, practice area, keyword, and capability for partners and principles of the firm to showcase the abilities of the substantial Hunt & Hunt team.
Results
The project ran across the following 12 month period and delivered a dramatic lift in enquiries via the firm website when the new website was launched in Feb 2019.
The project delivered fully optimised practice area pages covering a wide breadth of practice and industry keywords and subjects.
Through a better content structure and messaging we were able to drive up the time-on-page users spent on the site by almost 50% leading to a more committed user and higher conversion to lead.
