New Jersey Personal Injury Sites
In preparation for the New jersey Trial Lawyers Convention next week in Atlantic City – I thought I would prepare by reviewing the best PI sites throughout the State of New Jersey. New Jersey is different in that it lacks a major metro city to optimize for, thus most firms go after the various county and statewide terms. The most competitive is of course “New Jersey” where most of the major players are competing. The firm with the best presence in NJ is Console and Hollawell and its not even close. Outside of Console and Hollawell, I was somewhat surprised by the lack of meaningful SEO competition in the State. SEO companies that normally cant sniff the first page in other competitive markets are on the first page in New Jersey. Its even worse at the county level where a parade of old FindLaw sites dominate the local results.
Below I went through all the largest counties in NJ and I selected the best looking design and most visible site for each county. While the design selection is subjective, I did create a formula to determine the most visible. I performed searches (County + Personal Injury lawyer) + (County + Accident Lawyer) for each county and the major cities in each County with a population over 40,000. I then created a point system based on map ranking, organic rankings for cities and counties. In an upcomming post I will release the Statewide results. In the meantime here are the results for each of the major counties.
Atlantic County
Best Design: In most counties this site wouldnt even be considered, but Weinstock and Associates is tops here.
Most Visible: When it comes to SEO this is a very weak market. Targan Pender has the best web presence.
Bergen County
Best Design: The Epstein Law Firm: A nice effort from FindLaw. The Broderick site is better but I gave that site top billing in Mercer County
Most Visible: Breslin & Breslin : An old Findlaw site has solid organic and map rankings in both Hackensack and Bergen County. One of the more visible sites in New Jersey, Davis Saperstein, is located in Bergen County, but with the exception of Teaneck, it does not rank well for Bergen County searches.
Burlington County
Best Design: Smith Magram – A nice looking FindLaw site.
Most Visible: A close call between two Findlaw sites. Ginsberg Law and Smith Magram. Ginsberg gets the edge because of its great rankings in Mt. Laurel.
Camden County
Best Design: Graziano & Flynn Very nice PI and divorce site in Cherry Hill.
Most Visible: Despite being very dated and ugly, John Morelli has one of the most visible sites in Southern New Jersey – ranking in Camden, Mt. Laurel and Cherry Hill. The Snyder Law Group also does a good job with organic SEO
Cape May County
Best Design: With an office in Cape May, Petro Cohen gets the nod.
Most Visible: No one deserves this in Cape May County.
Essex County
Best Design: While not that visible in Essex County, Keefe Bartels has a great looking site and an office in Newark.
Most Visible: The most visible site in Essex County is Frederick Schreck, thanks to a dominating presence in Newark.
Gloucester County
Best Design: Hoffman & DiMuzio sets a record for fitting in the most attorney pictures on a home page.
Most Visible: The same firm narrowly edges out numerous Pennsylvania interlopers (Snyder and Console Hollawell) to take the top spot.
Hudson County
Best Design: In a rather weak field I give the nod to http://www.njatty.com/ thanks to an office in Jersey City.
Most Visible: Hudson County is home to Jersey City, the 2nd largest city in NJ. The king in terms of Google placement there is Krivitzky Springer & Feldman.
Mercer County
Best Design: Brandon Broderick – New Scorpion site is one of the best looking PI sites in the State.
Most Visible: Edward S. Kahn – Ancient FindLaw site has great visibility in both maps and organic searches in Trenton and Mercer County
Middlesex County
Best Design: Clear choice here is Lombardi & Lombardi out of Edison.
Most Visible: Marshall Bonus et al. has a number of high ranking websites in the State in both criminal and personal injury. No where are they stronger than PI in Middlesex County.
Monmouth County
Best Design: Tie Drazin & Warshaw and Chamlin Rosen
Most Visible: The Grossman Law Firm
Morris County
Best Design: Hoyt & Hoyt take advantage of some nice custom photography
Most Visible: The firm, Nusbaum Goldstein dominates in Morris County for most personal injury searches.
Ocean County
Best Design: Fuggi Law is the best of a very weak field
Most Visible: Starkey & Kelly is dominant in both Ocean County and Toms River Searches
Passaic County
Best Design: Corrandino & Pappa
Most Visible: Peter N. Davis dominates in Paterson NJ for most PI searches.
Somerset County
Best Design: http://www.kovacswilsonlaw.com/
Most Visible: Lieberman Ryan & Forrest
Sussex County
Best Design: Morris Downing
Most Visible: Morris Downing
Union County
Best Design: Best looking site in Union County is Calcagno & Associates. Main office is in Cranford.
Most Visible: The real prize in Union County is Elizabeth NJ. The law firm Ginarte has the strongest presence there for most injury terms.