You might need a new law firm website if:
- A relative built your website as a favor.
- Music plays (especially if it's .midi, this is real).
- A tiny digital version of you walks onto the page and begins talking.
- Your pages have pictures of gavels, flags and law books.
- You use flash.
- You use Joomla.
- You have to pinch and swipe on your iPhone to read your pages.
- The title of your homepage is Home.
- You don't own the domain, content and content management system.
- You have to call someone to update it.
- Your pages don't load in about one second.
- Your web marketing vendor makes you link to them.
- It's not as easy to read on a smartphone as it is on a desktop.
- Your posts are authored by "admin."
- You're spending hundreds of dollars a month for a proprietary content management system.
- You've been building your website for years.
- Your pages lack structured data.
- Your pages are littered with badges.
- Your pages lack your contact information.
- You don't regular receive positive feedback about it.
- Your domain contains hyphens.
- Your domain isn't easy to remember.
- Your pages have content that exists on other sites.
- Your website looks like other websites.
- Nobody is visiting it.
- Nobody is interacting with it.
- Your pages uses language that your potential clients wouldn't use or understand.
- Your biographical information pages are long, arrogant and boring.
- It's not clear what visitors can do when they arrive.
- You throw the kitchen sink at visitors.
- You have ugly permalinks.
- You have crawl errors in search console.
- Your site lack a clear text link hierarchy.
- You have broken links.
- You don't use WordPress
- You don't have a robots.txt file.
- You have the wrong robots protocols.
- You're not using SSL.
- You're using doorway pages.
- You're using hidden text.
- You're cramming your footer with every city and county you can think of.
- You're using an insecure host.
- There are multiple versions of the same page getting indexed by search engines.
- You're in a long-term contract with your web marketing vendor.
- Your web marketing vendor works with your direct competitors.
- You don't have systems in place to track from visitors to clients.
- You don't have Goals configured in Google Analytics.
- Your pages don't have unique and compelling titles.
- Your pages have lacking or duplicate descriptions.
- Your pages don't inspire people to share them.
- Your pages don't inspire people to link to them.
- Your pages contain the wrong phone numbers and addresses.
- You claim to be able to do things that are not true.
- Your pages reveal client confidences.