Blue Summit SEO

madia law - law firm seo case study

From stagnant growth to 14 signed employment cases in 60 Days. In one of the most competitive markets in the Midwest.

Madia Law was not a struggling firm. They had real results, strong cases, and a reputation built on taking employment matters to verdict. The problem was not capability. It was visibility where high-value cases are actually searched.

Engagement Begins
January 2025
Reporting Through
April 2026
Signed Cases
14
Signed employment matters in 60 days, from organic search
Lead volume
300836
Monthly organic leads, without diluting case quality
Local Voice
85.19%
Share of Local Voice across 100-mile statewide footprint
YoY Growth
+95%
Year-over-year inquiry growth (2024 vs 2025)
The Real Problem

A Strong Firm, Invisible Where the Cases Actually Live

Madia Law was not a struggling firm. They had real results, strong cases, and a reputation built on taking employment matters to verdict. The problem was not capability. It was visibility where high-value employment cases are actually searched.

When the firm engaged Blue Summit SEO in January 2025, organic search was steady but capped at roughly 300 leads per month. Most non-brand, high-intent employment searches across Minnesota were controlled by competitors. The firm’s actual strength was not showing up where it mattered.

For a selective plaintiff firm, more leads alone would not solve this. Wrong cases waste senior attorney time. The firm needed visibility where the right plaintiff actually searches, and a system designed to feed selective intake instead of overwhelming it.

Strong firm, stagnant search footprint

01. Roughly 300 organic leads per month, flat year over year

02. Visible inside Minneapolis. Invisible everywhere else

03. Non-brand, high-intent employment searches owned by competitors

04. No structural reason for a high-value plaintiff in Duluth, Rochester, or St. Cloud to find Madia first

Statewide visibility. Selectivity intact.

01. 14 signed employment cases in a 60-day window from organic search

02. 836 organic leads in April, the firm’s all-time high

03. 730 in March, the previous all-time high one month earlier

04. Statewide visibility across a 100 mile geo-grid

05. Case mix held to the firm’s standards. Selectivity intact.

THE HARD PART
Minnesota employment law is dominated by established firms with budgets and history. Breaking out of a single city into statewide visibility is hard. Doing it without lowering the bar on case quality is the part that almost never happens.
WHAT ACTUALLY CHANGED

Six Decisions. In This Order.

Most agencies would have piled on content and called it a strategy. We made six business decisions in this order. Each one is tied directly to signed cases or case quality.

01
We built statewide search infrastructure because the firm's best cases live outside Minneapolis.
The plaintiffs Madia wants come from people who already know they have a problem. Those searches happen in every Minnesota market the firm serves. Restricting visibility to a downtown footprint was leaving qualified employment cases on the table.
02
We built deep authority on the matter types that produce real cases.
Wrongful termination. Sexual harassment. Whistleblower retaliation. Discrimination. Each one earned dedicated content, real proof points, and structural authority because plaintiffs in those situations are looking for a firm with serious depth in their exact case type, not a generic employment law firm.
03
We took control of local search across the state because territory control is what wins competitive markets.
Coverage expanded from a five-mile reach to a one-hundred-mile statewide footprint. When a high-value plaintiff in Duluth, Rochester, or St. Cloud searches for an employment lawyer, Madia is on the screen, not buried beneath competitors who do not work cases the way the firm does.
04
We engineered every page around the actual situation a plaintiff is in when they search, because fit-aware pages attract the right plaintiff and repel the wrong one.
A wrongful termination plaintiff is not a discrimination plaintiff. Sending them to the same page is how intake gets buried in low-intent calls. Every page was built around real client situations, not keyword inventory.
05
We built authority through link acquisition that protects the firm's reputation.
A firm that takes employment matters to multi-million-dollar verdicts cannot afford to be linked to junk. Branded anchors carried trust. Situational anchors carried topical relevance into the money pages without over-optimization. No spammy footprints. No anchor profiles that look bought.
06
We made the internal site work like a referral system, because most agencies pile content. We engineered routing.
Every supporting page funnels qualified plaintiffs toward the right intake call. Every state and city page reinforces the money pages. The right plaintiff arrives at the right place, every time.
RESULTS THAT MATTER

Signed Cases First. Volume Second.
Quality Always.

Signed cases come first. Lead volume is proof that the system is working. Both improved. Neither came at the cost of case quality.

14

Signed employment matters in 60 days, from organic search

836

Organic leads in April 2026, all-time high

730

Organic leads in March 2026 – previous all-time high

Translation for attorneys

More qualified plaintiffs entering the pipeline without burying intake under junk. Same selectivity. Same case profile the firm has always retained. The mix held while volume nearly tripled.

Monthly Organic Leads for Madia Law

Monthly inbound organic leads. Engagement begins January 2025. The orange bars are 2026 record-setting months.

Year One Totals: 2024 vs 2025

3,757

Total annual organic inquiries

+95%
7,321

Total annual organic inquiries

TERRITORY CONTROL

From a 5-Mile Blip to Statewide Domination.

The firm went from a small Minneapolis footprint to showing up across the state wherever high-value employment cases are searched. This is not better rankings. It is territory control.

Local Search Footprint Expansion Madia Law
Geo-grid expansion for "Employment Attorneys Minnesota" tracked from a 5-mile scan to a 100-mile statewide footprint.
starting rankings - 1/10/2025

"Employment Lawyer Minnesota"

March 29th, 2025

Where Madia Law Ranked

Madia Law Early 2025 Ranking
100-mile local ranking radius

Where Madia Ranks Today

Where Madia Law Ranks Today
What this means in practice
When a high-value plaintiff anywhere in Minnesota searches for an employment lawyer, Madia Law is on the screen. Eight high-intent keywords sit at 91% or higher local performance. The firm is now positioned where the cases actually originate.

Top Tracked Keywords (Local Performance)

Keyword Local Performance Score
Employment Attorneys Minnesota
99%
Employer Attorney Near Minnesota
96%
Employment Lawyer Minnesota
96%
Race Discrimination Lawyer
96%
Minnesota Employment Lawyers
95%
Employment Attorney Near Minnesota
94%
Employment Attorney Minneapolis
91%
Employment Lawyer MN
91%
testimonial

From Inside the Firm

This is what that looks like from the inside of the firm.

In 1 year, Tim took my monthly inbound leads from 300 to 800. Our problems now are growth problems, trying to manage all of the new intakes coming into our office because of Tim’s team. I’ve been through many SEO firms since I’ve had a business. Most of them suck. They make promises and then give vague excuses about why they’re not achieving what they said they would. Tim is the one guy in this industry who is as good as his word. He told me what he was going to do. And then he did it. And then he exceeded it and set new goals. One of the best teammates of any kind that I’ve had in my career. Strong recommend.

J. Ashwin Madia trial lawyer
J. Ashwin Madia / Founder, Madia Law
WHY THIS MATTERS

Most Law Firm SEO Sells Motion. We Sell Signed Cases.

Reports, blog posts, ranking screenshots, a recurring invoice. None of it ties back to signed cases. None of it changes the business. That is not what we do.

If any of these are true, you are paying for activity, not outcomes:

This is not for every firm. We do not work with firms looking for content volume, vanity rankings, or hands-off SEO. We work with plaintiff firms that measure marketing the same way they measure cases. By what gets signed. By what produces verdicts. By what compounds. If that is you, the call is worth taking.

If you are serious about scale and case quality

Book a Strategy Call. No Pitch Deck.
No Wasted Time.

On the call, we will tell you what is structurally broken in your current setup, what your ceiling looks like in 12 to 24 months, and what it would take to get there.

Scroll to Top