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Seo Strategy Selector

skill: seo-strategy-selector title: SEO Strategy Selector oneLiner: Matches CGH's actual situation to one of five named strategies and commits to a single ordered playbook with a realistic timeline, instead of running two plays at once. client: CGH Injury Lawyers

What it produced for CGH Injury Lawyers

The selector forces ONE scenario, then follows its fixed sequence top to bottom. Below is the situation read for CGH, the scenario chosen, why the other four were rejected, and the committed sequence with timeline for a competitive Denver personal-injury market.

Situation read (from the CGH sources)

  • CGH is an established firm with a real domain (cghlawfirm.com) and live money pages already in the /{city}/{practice}-lawyer/ structure, plus live blog pillars (settlement amounts, Colorado dog bite law). This is not a brand-new or weak site.
  • The content engine is already running: topical map, localized PAA harvest, articles, and schema exist in the client folder. So this is not a from-zero foundation play.
  • The market is highly competitive and high-CPC (personal injury, especially "car accident lawyer", is among the most contested verticals in paid and organic). The firm is investing to grow share, not recovering from a penalty or a ranking collapse. No evidence in the sources of an emergency decline.
  • The MDAI execution layer is active and funded (PAA + geo articles, tier-2 link building, technical SEO, CWV, monthly reporting), i.e. an ongoing growth engagement, not a 3-to-6-month limited-budget local sprint.

Scenario chosen: Scenario 3 - Strong foundation, growth mode

Strategy: Expansion plus Dominance. Timeline: ongoing.

Why not the others (one-line elimination, per the rules)

  • Scenario 1 (new/weak site): Rejected. CGH already has live ranking money pages and a content engine. It does not need a foundation-from-scratch play.
  • Scenario 2 (established, underperforming): Closest runner-up. Rejected because the sources show an active, funded growth program and an expanding topical map, not a stalled site needing a CRO-led turnaround. The optimization steps it prescribes are folded in as maintenance, not the headline strategy.
  • Scenario 4 (local, limited budget): Rejected. The engagement is a full multi-workstream MDAI program (links, technical, content, reporting), not a budget-constrained GMB-only sprint with a 3-to-6-month horizon.
  • Scenario 5 (competitive emergency): Rejected. No diagnosed decline or competitor surge in the sources. If a ranking drop is later confirmed, hand to the forensic incident-response flow first, then re-select.

Committed sequence (Expansion plus Dominance, in execution order)

  1. Expand keyword footprint. Go beyond car accident and dog bite into the full practice set CGH already serves: truck accident, motorcycle accident, premises liability, slip and fall, wrongful death. Map each as /{city}/{practice}-lawyer/ money intent plus its /blog/ support cluster.
  2. Scale content. Run the PAA + geo article engine across the expanded footprint (the Natalia-style brief is the repeatable unit), every legal article routed through the YMYL claims ledger before publish. City money pages receive localized FAQ blocks.
  3. Geographic expansion. Replicate the proven Denver /{city}/{practice}-lawyer/ pattern into the surrounding metro (e.g. Aurora, Lakewood, Centennial, Westminster) once Denver money pages are validated, reusing the city-folder architecture.
  4. Build topical authority. Extend the existing topical map so each practice hub (/practice-areas/<practice>/) is fully supported by blog clusters linking up to the city money pages, establishing CGH as the Colorado PI authority entity.
  5. Aggressive links. Tier-2 link building from the SEO Neo team to the tier-1 money pages, conservative locally-relevant anchors, started only after target URLs and the anchor plan are approved (per the execution pack).
  6. Capture market share. Press to outrank entrenched Denver PI competitors on the highest-value money terms (car accident, truck accident), defended by the topical-authority moat and the link program.

Timeline

Ongoing. Expansion plus Dominance has no fixed end date; it is a compounding program. Practical cadence for a competitive PI market: first new-footprint money pages and clusters live within the first 60-90 days, geographic expansion beginning once Denver pages prove out (roughly months 3-6), with link and authority work compounding continuously thereafter. Re-select only on a material change (a diagnosed ranking drop routes to Scenario 5 via incident response first; a budget cut would route to Scenario 4).

Note on numbers: no CGH-private metric was used or invented. Market characterization (high-CPC, highly competitive PI vertical) is a documented vertical assumption, not a CGH-specific figure.