Law firms · Employment law

Employment law marketing, positioned for the side you actually take.

Wage and hour, discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation, FMLA. Plaintiff side or defense side, the searches do not overlap and the firms that try to capture both with one page rank for neither. We position your firm clearly on the side you actually take and rank the pages that match what your clients search for.

250
monthly searches
for 'seo for employment lawyers' (Ahrefs)
5
federal-act pages
FLSA, ADA, Title VII, FMLA, ADEA
DR 34-74
SERP body range
winnable with the backlink budget and time
What we see

What's keeping employment law firms out of the 3-pack.

Patterns specific to employment law that show up in nearly every audit. Each is fixable.

Plaintiff or defense ambiguity

An employee researching a wage claim and an employer researching how to defend a discrimination charge are different searchers running different queries with completely different conversion paths. A firm that takes both will not rank well for either if the website and the profile read ambiguously. The fix is picking the side that drives the majority of revenue and writing the public-facing content to that audience clearly. Cross-over work can continue without being advertised against the side you do not actually want to scale.

Generic 'Employment Law' page covering FLSA, ADA, Title VII, FMLA, and state acts

Each of those federal acts addresses a different employment problem with a different procedural path. A page that mentions all of them in one paragraph each ranks for none of them. The pages that rank are act-specific: FLSA wage and hour, ADA disability accommodation, Title VII discrimination, FMLA leave, ADEA age, plus the major state-act equivalents (California's FEHA, New York's State Human Rights Law).

No state-specific wage-and-hour content

Wage and hour law diverges sharply by state. California has daily overtime, meal and rest break premiums, wage-statement requirements, and PAGA. New York has similar but distinct rules. Texas largely tracks the federal FLSA. A page that covers federal FLSA only loses the searcher whose case actually turns on state law, which is most plaintiff wage-and-hour cases in California and New York. The fix is state-specific pages where the firm operates, layered on top of the federal page.

Settlement and outcome content that ignores confidentiality rules

Most employment settlements include confidentiality clauses, which limits what the firm can publish about specific case outcomes. Firms either ignore that and risk breach, or skip outcome content entirely and lose the conversion advantage of published wins. The middle path is published case categories (for example, 'representative wage and hour matter, restaurant industry, six-figure settlement, confidential terms') that respect confidentiality and still demonstrate capability.

EEOC and state agency procedure left unexplained

A discrimination claim requires an EEOC charge or a state-agency equivalent before suit. A client who does not understand that timeline reads the firm's silent page and bounces. A page that walks the searcher through the EEOC right-to-sue process, the state agency timeline, and the suit deadline ranks higher because it answers what the searcher was asking, and converts higher because it shows the firm understands the procedural posture.

What ranks

The signals Google reads for employment law firms.

Each of these is a lever we pull during onboarding. None of them are 'magic.' All of them are measurable.

Employment Attorney specific category

Employment Attorney as the Business Profile primary, with Labor Relations Attorney as a secondary where applicable. Plaintiff-side firms sometimes also use Civil Rights Attorney as a secondary for the discrimination cases.

One page per major federal act

FLSA wage and hour. ADA accommodation. Title VII discrimination. FMLA leave. ADEA age. Each page schema-marked, linked from the firm hub. State-act equivalents (California FEHA, New York SHRL) get their own pages where the firm operates in those states.

Clear plaintiff or defense positioning

The website hero, the Business Profile description, and every practice page read clearly to the side you take. Generic 'we handle employment matters' framing loses to firms that say 'we represent employees' or 'we represent employers' plainly. The side you advertise can differ from the side that pays the largest individual fees: most plaintiff-side firms work on contingency and bill less per case but in larger volume.

State-specific wage and hour content

California PAGA, California daily overtime, California meal and rest break premiums, New York Wage Theft Prevention Act, New York Spread of Hours, Texas at-will employment realities. Each gets its own page in the states where the firm operates. Generic 'we handle wage and hour' loses to firms with state-specific content.

Disclaimer-clean representative-matter content

Settlement amounts disclosed where confidentiality permits, otherwise representative matters described categorically with industry and outcome shape. Disclaimer language that matches the state bar rule. Most employment firms underuse this content; the firms that do it right outrank firms with bigger ad budgets.

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