Wagner Legal Group (WLG) is a Los Angeles area law firm practicing in the areas of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Business Litigation, Employment, Litigation, Personal Injury, Real Estate and Trust and Estates. Their Firm is dedicated to providing each of their clients with the personal care and attention to detail they deserve, and they needed a website that reflected this commitment to their clients.
One aspect of WLG’s focus on a personal, open client relationship is communication, and their website is structured to encourage dialog and as a resource guide for legal information. Both clients and visitors from the web will have the ability to access informational blogs posted by the firm, follow WLG via social media outlets such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, or contact WLG directly.
The homepage of the site contains a rotating featured slider, highlighting different aspects of the practice. Across the top of each of the pages is a navigation bar, ensuring visitors to the site can easily access each part of the site from any page. In addition to the navigation bar, the social networking icons can be accessed from each page of the site and are prominently located on the top right of the page. From the homepage visitors also have the ability to view a short snippet of the 8 most recent blog posts, or they can fill out the contact form and get in touch with Wagner Legal Group directly.
This site is structured for maximum search engine visibility, and an advanced keyword report and competition analysis was performed prior to building the site. After performing the keyword report, we laid out a site framework based on the best fit keywords and compiled a list of keywords for WLG to target for future articles and site content. The website was built around the highest quality target keywords, and contains other search engine optimization features such as automated sitemap submission, HTML sitemap, webmaster tools integration, analytics tracking, targeted page/post titles, an intelligent permalink structure and more.
Included with this site was a one hour WordPress tutorial, during which the client learned how to add, manipulate and structure current and future website content, as well as tips on how to structure the content for optimum search engine impact. Also reviewed in this one hour tutorial was a discussion on website hosting and backups, including best practices.
