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Law Firm Website Audit Priorities
What actually matters when auditing a law firm site: intake security, practice-area architecture, attorney bio E-E-A-T, and the YMYL trust signals.
Apr 26, 20267 min read
Law-firm sites carry more weight than most agencies treat them with
Legal websites are YMYL — "your money or your life" — content under Google's quality framework. They're held to a higher bar than a typical small business site: stricter E-E-A-T signals, more aggressive trust requirements, and a regulatory layer most marketing teams ignore until something goes wrong.
Most agency audits miss this. They run a standard SEO checklist, report a 78/100, and move on. A law firm site needs a different priority order — one where security and authority outweigh keyword optimization.
This post is the audit priority list we apply to law-firm sites, in the order things should be fixed. Compliance and intake first; rankings second.
Priority 1: Security headers and HTTPS
Law firm intake forms collect attorney-client privileged information from the first message. A potential client describing a custody dispute or workplace harassment in your contact form is sending data that — depending on the jurisdiction — may need to be handled with the same care as the attorney's case files.
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