Industries · Professional Services
Websites for Law Firms, Accountants & Advisors in Oakland County, Michigan
Your referrals check you out online before they call. Pass the check, then never miss the intake.
Most new clients arrive with your name already in hand and run a search to verify it: established, handles my matter, reachable. We build the site that passes that check and the intake system that answers within minutes.
Built for your practice
A referral check, a practice-area search and a renewal look different online.
Law firms
Directories own "attorney near me". A small firm wins its own name and its practice areas, then turns the 9 p.m. intake into a next-morning call.
- A page per practice area, written for the client's problem
- Bios with real photos, bar admissions and the matters you take
- Intake that reaches a phone, confirmed to the client within minutes
- Review requests inside the bar's advertising rules
›How they search
Searches are branded ("<firm> reviews", "<attorney name>") or practice-area plus town. The generic "lawyer near me" pack belongs to directories and advertisers; win your name and your practice-area pages, with Business Profile category Law firm and the practice area as secondary.
Accountants & bookkeepers
"CPA near me" peaks January to April; "bookkeeping services" runs all year from owners who fell behind. Posted tiers and a document portal win both.
- Service pages for tax, bookkeeping and payroll with a starting tier
- An onboarding form that collects entity type, year-end and software
- Secure document upload instead of email attachments
- Review requests at the end of tax season, when goodwill peaks
›How they search
Seasonal and service-first: "tax preparation clarkston", "cpa for contractors". The pack decides "cpa near me"; the organic result decides the service and niche searches. Publish the season's pages by November; a February page is too late for April.
Insurance agencies
Carriers own the brand searches and comparison sites own the quotes. An independent agency wins the local, specific one: "commercial insurance for landscapers".
- Coverage pages by customer type, not by policy name
- A quote form that collects what the underwriter needs up front
- Renewal and policy-review reminders that send themselves
- Reviews that name the agent and the claim that went well
›How they search
Carriers own "car insurance". An agency's searches are local and specific: "insurance agent clarkston", "commercial insurance for <trade>". Category Insurance agency, a page per customer type and reviews that mention a claim handled well decide both the pack and the organic result.
Consultants & advisors
Hired on credibility, reached by referral. The site is a proof document: who you helped, what changed, how an engagement works, with a booking link.
- A results page with outcomes you are allowed to share
- An engagement page: how it starts, what it costs, how it ends
- Booking for a scoped first call, with questions asked before it
- A notes page or newsletter that keeps you in front of past clients
›How they search
Mostly branded and referral-driven; the useful organic searches are specific ("fractional cfo michigan"). LinkedIn often outranks a consultant's site for their name, so the site must rank beside it and carry what LinkedIn cannot: process, pricing, results.
Search strategy
How professional practices win search
Professional-services search is a verification economy: the client already has a name and searches to confirm it. Directories own the generic terms, so a small practice wins its own name, its practice areas and the specific long tail, and converts by answering first.
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Own the search for your own name
A bio page per professional and the firm's About page should outrank LinkedIn, Avvo and review aggregators for the name searches referrals run. It is the highest-intent search a practice gets and the cheapest to win.
76% of consumers look at a business’s online presence before visiting it in person. (Visual Objects survey)
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One page per practice area, written for the problem
"Estate planning attorney clarkston" is winnable against a directory because the directory page is generic and yours is specific. Lead with the client's situation and first step, then the credentials.
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Category first, specialty second, hours always
Primary category Law firm, Accountant or Insurance agency with the specialty as secondary decides the "near me" pack. "Open now" is a top-five factor, so a profile that says closed at 5 loses the evening search.
In Whitespark’s 2026 Local Search Ranking Factors survey of 47 experts, the primary Business Profile category is the top local pack factor, proximity is second, being open at the time of search is fifth, and reviews with text rank ninth. (Whitespark, Local Search Ranking Factors 2026)
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Response time decides conversion
Answering a web intake within five minutes qualifies far more clients than answering next day, and the average firm takes nearly two days. Automatic confirmation, routing to a phone and a timed follow-up close the gap.
Contacting a web lead within 5 minutes makes you 21x more likely to qualify them than waiting 30 minutes. (MIT / InsideSales Lead Response Management study)
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Ask for reviews inside the rules
Clients read reviews even when referred. Request at the natural moment (matter closed, return filed, claim paid), never gated or incentivized, with wording that invites no confidential detail. Reply to each.
92% of consumers read reviews before a first visit to a local business. (BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey 2025)
This is the playbook our local SEO program runs month to month.
The winning setup
What a professional-services website needs to pass the referral check.
- Bios with real photos, credentials and the matters you actually take
- A page per practice area or service, written for the client's problem
- Intake that reaches a phone within minutes, with an automatic confirmation
- A review engine inside your profession's advertising rules
- A document portal or booking link in place of email back-and-forth
- A Business Profile with the right primary category and office hours
$100–$300 / month. Everything managed. No upfront build fee.
Priced for a practice, not a national firm's marketing budget, and month to month.
Compare all pricingProfessional-services website questions, answered.
All our clients come from referrals. Why invest in a site?
The referral is the start, not the end. Nearly everyone checks a business online before contacting it, and a referred client who finds a dated site, or a directory ranking above you for your own name, often calls the next name. The site confirms what the referrer said and makes contact easy.
Can you work within bar and licensing rules on marketing?
Yes. Rules on testimonials, specialization claims and disclaimers, and confidentiality limits on reviews, shape the copy and the review requests. You approve every public word, and we document the rules followed.
What does intake automation actually do?
It collects what you need before the first call, confirms receipt to the client immediately, routes the lead by text or email to the right person, and follows up automatically if nobody responds within your window. Minutes instead of days, without adding staff.
What does it cost?
Plans run $100 to $300 per month with design, hosting, local SEO, Google profile work and review management included; intake automation is scoped on top at a fixed price. No upfront build fee, no long-term contract.
We are not in Clarkston. Do you work elsewhere in Michigan?
Yes. Most of the work is remote; the Oakland County base matters for the first in-person meeting practices often prefer and for knowing the courts, towns and referral networks your pages name.
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