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Personal Injury Law Firm

Industry Legal Services / Personal Injury

Timeline 4 months

Budget $18,000 project

Type B2B

Channels used

Google Ads SEO

Rebranding and new website: +280% conversion rate — from 1.8% to 6.8% in 4 months

6.8% Conversion Rate

+280% Conversion Lift

94 Monthly Consultations

$2.1M est. Revenue Impact

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A 6-attorney personal injury law firm with 22 years in operation. Spending $18,000/month on Google Ads driving 1,400 monthly visitors to a website with a 1.8% consultation request rate — only 25 leads per month at $720 CPL. The firm had a strong record but outdated branding and a 2012 website.

Website conversion rate 1.8% on 1,400 monthly visitors — 98.2% of paid traffic leaving without converting.

Outdated website design created trust deficit — competing against firms with modern, authoritative websites.

Homepage featured stock photos and generic legal content — no differentiation or social proof.

Google Ads spending $18,000/month but generating only 25 consultations at $720 CPL.

Complete rebrand and website redesign focused on trust, authority, and conversion. New brand identity, attorney photography, case result highlights, and a streamlined consultation request flow. A/B testing framework built into the new site from day one.

Increase website conversion rate to 5%+

Triple consultation volume from same traffic

Reduce CPL from Google Ads below $300

Same budget, 3x the leads

Build brand authority matching top competitors

Modern, trust-building site with case results

01

Installed Hotjar heatmaps and session recordings on existing site. Found that 68% of visitors left the homepage without scrolling past the above-the-fold area. 91% of form completions abandoned at field 3 of 8. Identified 12 specific friction points to address in redesign.

02

New brand identity: confident, authoritative navy and gold palette. Professional attorney headshots photographed on-site. Case results page built around actual outcomes (with client permission). Testimonial video shoot with 4 past clients. Simplified intake form reduced to 4 fields.

03

New site built on optimized WordPress. Page load time 1.4 seconds (from 5.8 seconds). Mobile-first design — 74% of law firm traffic is mobile. Live chat integrated. Click-to-call on all mobile pages. Practice area pages built with SEO architecture for organic traffic growth.

04

New site launched. Conversion rate increased from 1.8% to 5.2% immediately on launch day. A/B tests run on hero headline, CTA button text, and form field order. Winning variants brought conversion rate to 6.8% by end of month 4.

6.8% Conversion Rate

+280% Conversion Lift

94 Monthly Consultations

$2.1M est. Revenue Impact

Website conversion rate increased from 1.8% to 6.8% — 280% improvement. Monthly consultations from same ad budget grew from 25 to 94. CPL reduced from $720 to $191. Estimated annual revenue impact from additional case volume: $2.1M. Site also began generating organic traffic from practice area pages — 440 additional monthly visitors by month 4.

Key Result: +280% website conversion rate — from 16 to 94 consultation requests per month without increasing traffic.

Website conversion rate improvement is the highest-leverage marketing investment for law firms running Google Ads — tripling conversion rate is equivalent to tripling the ad budget with zero additional spend.

Professional attorney photography and real case results are the most important conversion elements on legal websites — stock photos actively destroy trust in a high-stakes, high-trust service category.

Mobile-first development is not optional for law firms — 74% of personal injury searches happen on mobile, and a non-optimized mobile experience loses the majority of expensive paid traffic.

Session recording analysis before redesign is essential — it reveals the specific friction points that need solving rather than relying on design intuition.

Law firms that rebrand and rebuild websites while running Google Ads should A/B test the new design against the old — quantify the lift before fully committing to make future investment decisions easier.