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East Wood Law

How we delivered 2X ROI and 73 qualified leads for East Wood Law in a single quarter

Professional Services / Legal · 90-day engagement
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Whitehat Agency transformed our online presence. From 2X ROI to 73 high-quality leads in just a few months — these guys truly understand legal marketing.

Cameron Eastwood
East Wood Law
East Wood Law — legal SEO and Google Ads case study by Whitehat Agency
01
2X
Return on ad spend
From paid search
02
73
Qualified leads
In 90 days
03
+48%
Engagement rate
Quarter on quarter
01 · Challenge

A dynamic firm — and a digital footprint that didn't match it.

East Wood Law had built a strong practice across business and personal law, but the digital channel wasn't keeping pace with the rest of the firm. Previous paid campaigns were returning less than a dollar for each one spent, organic visibility was patchy and traffic to the site had plateaued.

In a saturated legal market, the brief was sharp: lift visibility on the keywords that actually generate enquiries, and turn the site into a real lead-generation channel rather than a digital brochure.

Pre-engagement baseline
Google Ads + GSC
Paid ROI
Sub 1X
Losing money on clicks
Lead volume
Low
Below firm targets
Traffic
Stagnant
Engagement falling
Visibility
Off page 1
On core service terms
02 · Approach

SEO and paid, pulled together — and pointed at qualified enquiries.

Most agencies in this category run paid and organic on parallel rails. We treated them as one funnel. The SEO programme earned the slow, compounding traffic; the paid programme captured the high-intent searches today; and conversion-optimised landing pages turned both into actual enquiries.

Three workstreams ran together, all anchored to the same metric: cost per qualified lead.

The 90-day playbook
3 workstreams · 1 metric

SEO power moves

Comprehensive technical audit, on-page optimisation and a content programme built around the high-intent legal terms East Wood Law's buyers actually search.

Paid campaign reinvention

Restructured Google Ads around ROI, tight match types and compelling ad creative — every dollar tied to a relevant, in-market searcher.

Conversion-first optimisation

Mapped the user journey end to end, then rebuilt landing pages and service forms so the click-to-enquiry path was the shortest the firm had ever offered.

Quarterly measurement loop

Tracked engagement, rankings and lead source by week, so we could double down on the wins inside the quarter — not after it.

03 · The result

73 leads, 2X ROI, and a site that finally pulls its weight.

Inside 90 days, East Wood Law had generated 73 qualified enquiries from digital — at a 2X return on paid spend. Engagement on the site climbed 48% quarter on quarter as users found what they were looking for and stayed longer.

Twenty-five high-intent legal keywords reached page one of Google in the same window, giving the firm a compounding organic asset that lowers the cost of every future lead.

Return on ad spend · indexed, 90 days
Google Ads + GA4
2X
paid ROI
+48% engagement
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Results

The numbers that moved the practice.

A growing legal firm, a stagnant digital channel and a brief to make the website earn its keep. Here's what 90 days of integrated SEO and paid delivered.

01
2X
Return on ad spend
From paid search campaigns inside the first quarter.
02
73
Qualified leads
Generated in 90 days through integrated paid and organic.
03
+48%
Engagement rate
Quarter on quarter — readers staying, scrolling and enquiring.
04
25
Page-one keywords
High-intent legal terms reached page one of Google in 90 days.
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