Ward Law Group Proposal
Prepared By
RicketyRoo Inc.
August 18, 2023
Why We're Talking
James watched Amanda's MozCon presentation on local link research earlier this month and was interested in our different approach to link building. Typically, companies like Ward Law Group reach out to us when:
Bummed
About the results, or lack thereof, provided from previous vendors.
Overwhelmed
By the sheer amount of noise going on in the industry with what works and what doesn’t.
Frustrated
With their current status quo. Should we prioritize citations, link building, content development, a new website, reviews, structured data, ML/AI, Google My Business, or all of the above?
Pissed
Because they’ve been promised everything under the sun from sales reps of other agencies but have only ever received blog posts that get miniscule traffic, no ranking improvement on keywords that matter, excuses, and no real strategy besides “Look at this shiny report!”
Table Of Contents
Executive Overview
Traffic/rankings don’t pay the bills and keep you profitable – leads and new customers do. With the current team at Ward Law Group, our scope will primarily focused on link acquisition.
There is a deliverable during month 1 for keyword research, this will be dedicated to just 1 market. We would like to show how we perform keyword research and provide insights that may not have been considered before.
If the deliverable is found to be of value to Ward Law Group, we can adjust the initial roadmap to add the 2 other markets or can add them to a future roadmap.
Let's Talk About Your Business
Miami
Ranking organically in position 3 for Miami car accident lawyer is quite the feat. The 2 sites outranking Ward Law Group have a fraction of the links.
Maybe the content is more robust and purely on topic?
Maybe it’s a combination of both?
There are keywords (topics) where rankings are not as strong in the Miami market, too.
Kissimmee
Kissimmee’s overall rankings could use some help. Position 13 for Kissimmee car accident lawyer is what we would call a Striking Distance opportunity.
The content is likely rather comprehensive but the page has no links pointing to it. The top ranking results don’t have a ton of backlinks but interestingly, positions 6, 7, and 10 have upwards of 10x the amount of links.
Not all links are created equal.
New York City
New York City is in the same position as Kissimmee. Position 15 for New York City motorcycle accident lawyer. This keyword would be a Striking Distance opportunity, too.
The #1 organic result has 37 links from 18 domains, opposite of what was shown for Kissimmee, while most of the other top ranking results are similar to Kissimmee with link volumes.
Looking at the links Rosenbaum & Rosenbaum has to that page, most of them are spam/garbage.
Link Benchmarking
Backlinks are still an important ranking factor for organic and map rankings. We developed a proprietary link classification system that makes building a link benchmark a fraction of the time it would take to manually classify links.
Link Opportunities
Link Opportunities is our name for our link building CRM. Having a permanent record of link opportunities, statuses, and acquisition is critical to a successful relationship. The team at Ward Law Group would be able to reply to any link opportunity that has a status of Need Client Feedback.
Solutions for the Legal Industry
Proprietary Tools (seriously)
Proprietary tools:
- Competitive link benchmarking and ongoing link building CRM, saves a lot of time.
- Google Data Studio SQR: The SQR downloads the previous 16 months worth of Search Console records & puts them into a BigQuery database. A bot downloads the newest records daily.
Our toolset also includes:
- ahrefs, Majestic, Semrush, Google Data Studio, BrightLocal, Whitespark, and more.
Proposed Potential Roadmap
We are a deliverables-focused company
This 3-month SoW (we call it a roadmap) was hand-built based on our conversation, your goals, and where we can bring value. There are no checkbox solutions here.
Why Potential?
We’re shifting things into turbo mode which means we may uncover some issues along the way that we want to address quickly. When that happens, we will let you know and will update the roadmap with as little disruption to our highest-priority tasks as possible.
Why is this Sow ‘Potential’?
SEO has changed dramatically over the years. ~6 years ago, you could build irrelevant backlinks and rank fairly well for your keywords.
Those time are no more, Given the constant-changing nature of local search, we like to be adaptive vs. reactive, e,g, We may see something that we feel should be prioritized now.
Instead of adding that to work to be done in the future, we would likely drop everything we were focusing on and whatever we could to get it done.
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
MIKE TYSON
Rates
Monthly retainer: $6000 ($2000 per location)
Monthly tech fee: $450 ($150 per location)
One-time setup fee: $750
Why Us?
We probably don’t fit the typical agency mold that you’re used to working with. There aren’t 4-layers of communication to get to the people doing the actual work on your account.
As our homepage states; “We are passionate about supporting businesses. We understand what it takes to drive eyeballs, clicks, and ultimately customers for your business leveraging Google.” And we’re pretty great at it.
Our team is small but knowledgeable, experienced, and mighty! We are confident we’ll be able to drive the right kind of results to Marble.
We live and breath search and actively contribute to the SEO and greater SEO community.
Client Proof
- Client since December 2020
RicketyRoo has been a huge return on investment, way more than we ever anticipated. It’s wonderful to not even think about our SEO because we have the true experts.”
Joe Weidman Owner, JUNK Relief
Further Client Proof
Work completed:
- Technical audit
- On-site SEO
- Review building strategy
- Citation work
- Local Competitive analysis
- Local link building
Instead of creating content that may not truly add value, we focused on building.
A.BETTER.BRAND.
These numbers are reported directly from them, not some arbitrary metric we pulled to make us look good.
INTERNET ONLY FIRST-TIME CUSTOMERS:
Where do I begin? It’s all so incredibly perfect! I have worked with quite a few people in this industry, one of them supposedly one of the biggest names in the SEO game, but no one has even come close to matching the knowledge and professionalism of Blake and his team at RicketyRoo.
Having a bunch of different service locations in varying markets accross the US and Canada makes it difficult work of developing plans they have put into motion is genius and working SO WELL! Beyond the abvojus knowledge of SEO and implementation strategies, the communication is as good as I’ve ever had with anyone. They are also EAGER to see results in your business and genuinely give a shit. I cannot recommend Rickety Roo enough! Really, you can’t go wrong here!
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Thank You For Your Time Ward Law Group,
TANKS!
