The new list of “The Top 100 Most Expensive Keywords in the U.S.” for 2016 has been published on Search Engine Watch. It was created by EmpiricalProof using data collected from SEMrush in March 2016. It’s no big surprise to us that more than three-quarters of these keywords are related to attorneys and the legal industry, as legal keywords are known for being some of the most competitive search terms. In this list, legal keywords made up 9 of the top 10, as well as 78 of the top 100!
Below are the top 10 most expensive Google AdWords keywords from the 2016 list, along with their average cost per click prices:
1. $935.71 – best mesothelioma lawyer
2. $425.70 – Dallas truck accident lawyer
3. $411.04 – truck accident lawyer Houston
4. $393.79 – Louisville car accident lawyer
5. $388.84 – Houston 18 wheeler accident lawyer
6. $381.65 – San Diego water damage
7. $377.70 – are personal injury settlements taxable
8. $361.34 – Baltimore auto accident lawyer
9. $358.11 – accident lawyer Sacramento
10. $358.03 – car accident lawyer Phoenix
Just because a keyword has a high cost per click, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pursue it. With the right pay-per-click (PPC) advertising strategy, those clicks could help your law firm land major cases with high-value settlements or verdicts that easily pay off their advertising investments. (Many of the types of cases listed above can value hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars.)
Some background: PPC is an online advertising strategy that places paid website listings at the top and bottom of search engine results page, in addition to the organic (or free) results. Many law firms use PPC to gain more visibility in search results, drive more targeted traffic to their websites, and capture more leads. Data from Enquisite (featured by MOZ) shows that clicks on paid search ads tend to have a 1.5x higher conversion rate than clicks on organic results.
Making the Most of Your AdWords Spend
Here at Scorpion, we have helped numerous law firms fine-tune their legal PPC campaigns to produce more ROI-positive results—and that includes campaigns using some of the most expensive keywords listed above. We know that your advertising dollars are valuable, and that’s why we work with you to use them as effectively as possible. In fact, our PPC strategies are so effective, we were named the 2016 Google Platform Innovator of the Year.
We won this award because of our online marketing platform, which allows us to better predict the AdWords budgets and targeting criteria that are needed to get our clients the right types of leads. And once we get the campaigns running, we don’t stop there—we use performance data to make ongoing improvements to our clients’ campaigns. In addition to that, we’re a Google AdWords® Premier SMB Partner, meaning we have been hand-picked by Google as a leading company for helping small- to medium-sized businesses with their AdWords campaigns.
If you would like to learn more about how you can use legal PPC advertising to drive traffic to your website and high-value cases to your firm, contact Scorpion and speak to a member of our attorney marketing team. We’ll handle all the details of your legal search engine marketing so you can just focus on your cases!
