Top Citations for Lawyers

Local SEO For Lawyers

Local Search marketing is becoming even more important these days and getting your law firm to appear in the local search results in Google maps is very key to every online marketing strategy.  One thing you must be aware of are “Citations” of your law firm.

WHAT IS A CITATION?

A citation is an online reference to yourlaw firm’s name, address and phone number (NAP). Like links to your website, Google uses them when evaluating the online authority of your business. Unlike links though, citations don’t need to be linked to your business’s website in order for you to be credited for them. So, having your NAP listed in plain text is fine.

A partial citation is one which includes only part of your NAP – maybe your name and phone number or name and address. This is better than nothing, but not as beneficial as a full citation. A full citation is one which includes your business’s complete NAP. It doesn’t matter how that information is visibly listed (horizontally or vertically), so long as it’s all there. This is an example of a full citation:

For a citation to help with your local SEO strategy, it’s important that it exactly matches the NAP on your website and on your Google+ Local page. What format you choose for your citations isn’t important, but picking one format and sticking with it is. You need to be 100% consistent in the name (abbreviations? Ltd?), address (suite number? floor?), and phone number (+312? spaces or no spaces?) used when building citations.

For Lawyers there are all kinds of places to get citations including Yelp, Yahoo and many different online yellow page sites. Below are some of the top legal specific places to get citations. Most of them are free and your probably listed BUT the key here is to make sure your listed EXACTLY the same as far as your Firm name, Address and Phone #.  Then also claiming and verifying your listing is always a good idea and usually you can add a bunch of info on your firm, including a link back to your site.   These sites below are listed by Domain Authority (DA) and the higher the #, the better it will be for you to make sure you have a solid listing and a link back to your site if possible.

Citation Site	D.A.	Country	Free / Paid	Listing URL
findlaw.com	92	USA	Free	Click here
nolo.com	87	USA	Free	Click here
lawyers.com	86	USA	Paid	Click here
hg.org	85	ALL	Free	Click here
avvo.com	84	USA	Free	Click here
justia.com	82	USA	Free	Click here
bestlawyers.com	75	ALL	Free	Click here
lawguru.com	72	ALL	Free	Click here
wallethub.com	71	USA	Free	Click here
lawinfo.com	70	USA	Paid	Click here
lawyers.uslegal.com	58	USA	Free	Click here
divorcemag.com	57	USA / CAN	Free	Click here
lawyer.com	54	USA	Free	Click here
legaldocs.com	53	USA	Free	Click here
leadcounsel.org	52	USA	Free	Click here
lawresearch.com	50	USA	Paid	Click here
canadianlawlist.com	50	CAN	Free	Click here
morelaw.com	49	USA	Free	Click here
attorneypages.com	48	USA	Paid	Click here
uslawyersdb.com	45	USA	Paid	Click here
lawlink.com	44	ALL	Free	Click here
statelawyers.com	44	USA	Paid	Click here
riabiz.com	44	USA	Free	Click here
bestattorneyrankings.com	44	ALL	Free	Click here
lawfirms.com	43	USA	Free	Click here
legalhelpmate.com	42	USA	Paid	Click here
findlaw.com	41	ALL	Free	Click here
lawyercentral.com	41	USA	Free	Click here
lawfirmdirectory.org	41	USA	Paid	Click here
lawqa.com	40	USA	Free	Click here

 

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