UPDATED – 1/11/2021
The original post I wrote in 2018 featured my favorite legal website designs in each county of New jersey. At the bottom of this post, I also included the Average Rank Consistency (ARC) score for every personal injury law firm that targets New Jersey. Today I am updating this New Jersey post since I am adding the the ARC scores for all criminal law, family law, and Injury sites by each county. If you have questions or you want to discuss how to improve your online web presence, give me a call at 480-889-4216.
Bergen County (Updated 1/1/2020)
Morris County (Updated 1/1/2020)
Passaic County (Updated 1/1/2020)
Hudson County
Monmouth County (Updated 1/10/2020)
Middlesex County
Law Firm Website Design and SEO in New Jersey
New Jersey is interesting place for internet marketing. By far the most populous State in terms of population per square mile. However, the State lacks a major metro. The challenge for SEOs is to attract business from the many counties, cities and hamlets that make up the State. Besides the usual suspects (FindLaw Scorpion and Justia) there are other legal SEO companies that stand out in the Garden State. One is Next Level, which is headquartered in New Jersey. Besides Next Level there are a 3 other companies that have a disproportionate number of New Jersey clients in the State; Accel Marketing Solutions has at least 25 legal websites in New Jersey as of this posting. GetLegal has 31 legal website customers and Zola/Amicus Creative has 28.
To evaluate the designs in Jersey I looked at all the legal websites county by county. Below I choose my favorite legal design in each county, followed by some of the better finalists.
Atlantic County
Richard Stoloff – Very clean site in Linwood. One of the better sites in South Jersey. A former College Wrestler at Arizona St.! Next Level site features their typical darker background hues.
John W. Tumelty – My favorite criminal site in Atlantic County
Cooper Levenson – Very nice corporate site
Rice Elder Law – Long time visible elder law site in New Jersey from FindLaw
Bergen County
Lustberg Law Office – Great criminal site launched from in 2018.
Joseph M. Horn – FindLaw criminal site in Hackensack
Brickfield & Donahue – Bergen County Scorpion Criminal site.
Jeffrey S. Hasson – Nice design for a firm that has had a number of website vendors in the past few years (FindLaw, Black Fin, and now Scorpion
Alissa Hascup – Very cool looking juvenile crime website
Burlington County
Console Mattiacci – Fantastic long form employment law site from Juris Digital is the class of Burlington County.
Daniel M. Rosenberg – Solid criminal site
Michelle Finizio – Looks like a new criminal site.
Stephen Piper – Another very strong site.
Fuhrman & Edelman – Older Scorpion site.
Camden County
My favorite legal site in Camden County is also my favorite workers comp site in the State: Adam Kotlar
Jill R. Cohen – Contains some very cool mouse roll over features – nice criminal site in Westmont, NJ.
Lee M. Perlman – Best BK site in Camden County
Grungo Colarulo – Decent PI site in Cherry Hill from BluShark Digital
Joel R. Spivack – BK website in Cherry Hill from Next Level
Malamut & Associates – really nice attorney head shots
David M. Lipshutz – Best site from GetLegal in the State
Madden & Madden Law Firm – Very clean design with good photography.
Cape May County
Barnes Law Group – The only site iLawyermarketing ever built in the Garden State. Built in 2013, the site still holds up as the top site in the County.
Cumberland County
Craig A. Altman – Decent considering it’s using a WordPress theme.
Essex County
Smith Mullins – Shape shifting site! Definitely worth checking out.
Nitti & Nitti – My favorite family law site in Essex County is in Livingston.
Goldman & Beslow – Very nice FindLaw BK site in East Orange.
Team Law – PI firm with offices throughout NJ
BMB Law Firm – Nice effort from Incore Digital Agency
Harlan York & Associates – Best Immigration site in the State – very good video.
Krovatin Klingeman – Great photos help make this 2016 white collar crime site hold up
Nagel Rice – Zola Creative updated their design in 2018.
Bendit Weinstock – Scorpion PI site in West Orange
Glouchester County
Trimble and Armano – Nice site from South jersey Web Design
Richardson Employment & Civil Rights – Content rich employment site from Accel Marketing Solutions
Hudson County
My favorite site is a new general practice site released in 2018, https://www.bhattlawgroup.com/ Very clean with nice photography and colors.
- Carolann Aschoff – Updated Findlaw family law site
- Paladini Law – Simple and clean, my favorite tax law design in the State
- Mackiewicz Law – A Squarespace design with a baseball theme in Hoboken.
Hunterdon County
My favorite site in Hunterdon County belongs to Levinson Axelrod. The large PI firm in Flemmington boasts a very nice Scorpion site
Stephen D. Williams – Nice family law site from Law Firm Sites.
Mercer County
Next Level really does dominate the Garden State. My favorite design in Mercer County is yet again from Next Level – the PI site for Kamensky Cohen Riechelson. The site features a nice background video, a staple of Next Level sites.
- Davis Law Firm – Great looking crim/fam site from Next Level in Hamilton NJ
- Rachel Cotrino – New family law site, with hamburger navigation menu
- Buttaci Leardi & Werner – Very nice healthcare law site fom Zola Creative
- Hill & Wallack – Very cool conceptual design for this corporate law firm.
- Freeman Law Offices – Best Special education law website in NJ
Monmouth County
Clark & Clark – Really nice design from Apricot Law. Very nice interactive design elements on the home page.
- Tara Breslo-Tester – As good of a Justia design I have seen, the colors and photo really work well together
- Jonathan F. Marshall – Content rich criminal site from ConsultWebs, who is very prominent in the State.
- O’Toole & Gunteski – Fantastic divorce site from Scorpion
- Andres Mejer – Immigration lawyer with a very cool interactive cartoon
- Reardon Anderson – One of the nicest business law websites in the State is in Trinton Falls.
Morris County
Blume Forte Fried Zerrea & Molinari – My favorite legal site in Morris County belongs to a prominent PI firm in Chatam.
- Heyman Fletcher – FindLaw redesigned this site in 2018
- Hanlon Dunn Robertson Schwartz – Next Level – impressive criminal website in Morris County
- McHugh & Imbornone – Solid PI site in Florham Park
- James Dezao – Parsippany NJ PI firm with nice video
- Todd J. Leonard Law Firm – Denville, NJ PI site
- McHugh & Macri – One of the better elder law sites in the State
- EA Goodman Law – My favorite estate planning site in Morris County is from Zola Creative
- Schwartz Edelstein Law Group – Very nice corporate site from Papersteet
Middlessex County
My top pick in Middlesex is the new injury site for the Glorisi Law Firm. Launched in 2018 by Next Level.
- Ryan E. Gilbert – East Brunswick criminal law site
- Court Law – Another great effort from Next Level with awesome video and great photography
- Kafshi Law – Very nice SSD site from Paperstreet
- Rozin Golinder – Scorpion family law site in East Brunswick
Ocean County
Silvi Fedele Honschke FindLaw redesigned this general practice site in 2017 using a nice modern looking long form design.
David A. Semanchik – Toms River general practice solo attorney has a very nice FindLaw site.
Bronzino Law Firm – Solid family/General practice firm in Brick.
William H. Oliver – Custom Findlaw BK site in Toms River
Law Office of Sarina Gianna
Stolfe Zeigler – Nice Scorpion family law site
Passaic County
Fredson & Statmore – The best of a relatively weak county in terms of legal website design.
Silverman & Roedel – PI and BK site from Next Level
Peter G. Aziz – Modern looking FindLaw site
David L Pine – Nice Scorpion criminal site
Bastarrika Sota – Nice general site from FindLaw
Salem County
The least populous county in New Jersey. Nothing really stands out here. Probably the best is Telsey & Telsey which has a logo strikingly similar to the Tesla Logo.
Somerset County
Some nice sites in Somerset County. This estate planning site for Varian Law from Integrity marketing Solutions stands out.
Roberts & Teeter – Nice criminal site from Scorpion
Rajeh A. Saadeh – New Findlaw family law and real estate site
Lyons & Associates – Strong family law site in Somerville.
Lieberman Ryan & Forrest – FindLaw redesigned the site in 2018
Detommaso Law Firm – Warren Township family law website
Sussex County
Michael P. Burakoff – PI Site in Newton with moving sky.
Union County
Calcagno & Associates – Brilliant criminal/PI site from Next Level. Great quality video
- Mark M. Cheser – Very cool map of NJ is the centerpiece of this FindLaw Criminal Design
- Anthony M. Palumbo – Brand new FindLaw design for this Elizabeth criminal attorney
- Lawrence N. Lavigne – Top employment law website design in the State from FindLaw
- Shelley Stangler – Long time FindLaw client redesigned her site in 2017 with very nice custom photography
- Gacko Law – Real estate firm with a nice conceptual design in Westfield.
Warren County
Not much to choose from here. This Zola template for Thomas S. Ferguson in Phillipsburg is clean and easy to navigate.
NEW JERSEY ARC
When I go through all of the legal websites in a State like New Jersey I am doing more than tracking designs. One of the things I track is Average Rank Consistency Score or (ARC). Below are all of the sites from firms that attempt to market “New Jersey” personal injury. The numbers going Left to Right correlate to the page of Google results I found the site on for the following keywords: (New Jersey Personal Injury Lawyer, New Jersey Car Accident Lawyer, New Jersey Injury Attorney, New Jersey Motorcycle Accident Lawyer, New Jersey Truck Accident Lawyer, New Jersey Wrongful Death Lawyer, Accident Attorney New Jersey and New Jersey Brain Injury Lawyer) . A score of 0.3 signifies the fact that the site came up in the top 3 (either maps or organic) and a score of 11 means that the site did not come up in the top 10 pages of ranking results. The bolded number to the right is the Average Rank Consistency Score – basically a weighted average of the 8 keyword rankings. I developed this methodology to compare websites and legal SEO company performance across different markets.
This analysis provides some useful data points in terms of where each firm ranked at a particular time for 8 keywords. Thats it. It is impossible to draw conclusions about one’s SEO campaign or a particular company from a point in time ranking analysis like this. For one, many of the firms on this list have no ambition to be found in Statewide searches. Normally when I do this, I only include firms that have the target area (City or State) in the home page title tag. But in this case I included everyone that showed up within the first 15 pages of results. The other issue is that many on the list could have just launched their site or started SEO, thus giving an unfair view of a particular campaign. Finally, when it comes to evaluating legal website companies, there is simply not enough data points to derive any meaningful insights from the New Jersey ARC numbers alone. That said, since I perform this same analysis on thousands of sites across the country (I have done over 250 markets over the past few years), I can objectively show which companies are consistently performing across all markets.
For example one of the firms that has two clients in the top 10 in New Jersey ARC is ConsultWebs. This is not a surprise. Consultwebs consistently scores low ARC numbers in many markets across the country. They definitely know what they are doing when it comes to Legal Marketing. I even did a post that compared ARC in certain markets where my company, iLawyermarketing, and Consultwebs each had a client. Conversely there is a company that has a client ranking in the top 15 ARC score in New Jersey, but when you look at the ARC performance in other Tier 1 markets, that company has an average ARC of 5.43. Ouch!
My company, iLawyermarketing has the top ARC scores in some of the most competitive markets in the Country – Boston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Dallas, etc…. If you are a New Jersey law firm that is looking to greatly improve their web presence give me, Alex Morris, a call at 480-889-4216. *I will be in New Jersey next week Sep 4 to Sep 6th. If you want to see examples of our new site designs along with those of every legal web design company, you can see them here.