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Norton Law Group

How we delivered 25 enquiries in a single month for Norton Law Group — and 125 page-one rankings

Professional Services / Family Law · Month-one results
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Gabriella
The Norton Law Group
Norton Law Group — family law SEO and Google Ads case study by Whitehat Agency
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25
Qualified enquiries
In the first month
02
+24%
Website traffic
Quarter on quarter
03
125
Page-one keywords
Across core practice areas
01 · Challenge

A leading family law firm — and a digital channel that didn't deliver.

The Norton Law Group is one of the most respected family and divorce law practices in its market. But the website wasn't doing what the brand deserved: paid campaigns were generating inconsistent enquiries, organic visibility on high-converting legal keywords was thin, and there was no cohesive strategy connecting the two.

Family law is one of the most emotionally charged search categories in Australia — and one of the most competitive. The brief was clear: build a digital programme that earns trust at first click and turns it into a qualified enquiry.

Pre-engagement baseline
Google Ads + GSC
Lead consistency
Patchy
Hard to forecast pipeline
Conversion rate
Low
On paid campaigns
Organic visibility
Thin
On commercial-intent terms
Strategy
Siloed
Paid + organic disconnected
02 · Approach

A full-funnel programme, built for one of Australia's most sensitive search categories.

We started with the audit — a deep look at where Norton Law's prospects were dropping out of the funnel — then rebuilt the digital programme around the moments that matter in a family law decision.

Three workstreams ran together, each tuned to the trust signals high-intent legal searchers look for before they pick up the phone.

The 90-day playbook
3 workstreams · 1 metric

SEO uplift

Deep audit, technical fixes and keyword-driven content built around the high-intent terms that drive family law enquiries across NSW.

High-converting paid campaigns

Google Ads campaigns engineered for quality, not quantity — every dollar tied to a searcher with genuine in-market intent.

Smart funnel optimisation

From ad click to form fill, every step rebuilt to maximise conversions and reinforce the trust a legal decision demands.

Live measurement loop

Tracked enquiry source, keyword and time to first contact — so we could improve the funnel inside the month, not after it.

03 · The result

25 enquiries in month one, 125 page-one keywords, and a 5% conversion rate.

In the first month alone, Norton Law Group generated 25 qualified enquiries from the rebuilt programme — at a 5% conversion rate from Google Ads. Inside the quarter, website traffic was 24% higher than the previous baseline, with momentum still building.

125 high-intent legal keywords climbed onto page one of Google across core service areas — giving the firm a compounding organic asset that lowers the cost of every future enquiry.

Website traffic · indexed, quarter on quarter
GA4 + GSC
+24%
traffic QoQ
125 page-1 keywords
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Results

The numbers that moved the practice.

A high-trust legal category, a fragmented digital footprint and a brief to build a predictable pipeline. Here's what an integrated SEO and Google Ads programme delivered.

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25
Enquiries, month one
Qualified leads generated from the rebuilt programme in the first 30 days.
02
5%
Conversion rate
On Google Ads — well ahead of the legal-sector benchmark.
03
+24%
Website traffic
Quarter on quarter — sustained organic growth, not a one-off spike.
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125
Page-one keywords
Across family and divorce law terms, lowering cost-per-lead long term.
Family law is one of the hardest categories to convert.

If the funnel doesn't feel safe, the click doesn't become an enquiry.

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