Legal

What we built for a law firm

Site migration without ranking loss, then a content system built around practice-area intent.

The results
0keywords lost in migration
100%of legacy URLs mapped and redirected
2xintent-matched practice-area pages

Case metrics are illustrative placeholders pending client approval to publish named results.

The situation
The new engagement had one hard requirement: lose nothing.

A law firm needed a full site migration, and had been burned before: the last redesign cost rankings that took two years to recover.

The system deployed
01

Migration run on a full crawl inventory with 301 mapping per URL

Every legacy URL got crawled, mapped, and redirected before the new site went live. Nothing shipped on a guess.

02

Rank tracking through cutover, page by page

The SEO program tracked rankings daily through cutover, so any drop would surface in hours instead of quarters.

03

Practice-area content system built after the foundation held

Once rankings held, the content system started shipping practice-area pages on a schedule the firm could sustain.

04

Intent-matched pages for every service and jurisdiction

Intent routing sends someone searching one practice in one county to a page about exactly that, not a generic services list.

What happened next

The migration held, and the content system kept shipping.

Nothing that ranked before cutover dropped in the ninety days after it, and daily tracking wound down to weekly once the checks came back clean.

Content shipped through the following two quarters at the pace the firm's attorneys can actually review. Practice-area pages get drafted from case intake questions, an attorney signs off, and the page goes live the same week. The firm opened another office in that window, and its jurisdiction pages launched with the office instead of six months behind it.

Next step

Find out what your next migration would put at risk.

A systems audit inventories what you rank for now, page by page, so nothing gets lost later. One call, a week of analysis, and you keep the findings either way.

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