
BigHand Organic Growth Opportunities
1. Readiness Assessment
1. Readiness Assessment
2. Competitive Analysis
2. Competitive Analysis
3. Opportunity Kickstarters
3. Opportunity Kickstarters
4. Appendix
4. Appendix
Readiness Assessment
Current Performance
- You rank for ~1.3k organic keywords and drive ~5k monthly organic visits (traffic value ~$37k), with 0 paid search activity.
- Organic traffic is heavily brand-led: “big hand” and “bighand” account for ~67% of keyword-driven traffic, with “big billing” contributing another meaningful share.
- Your top page (/en-us/) captures ~71% of all organic traffic; the next biggest winners are product/solution pages like Prebillmanager (~10%) and Intellistat (LP), showing concentrated demand around a few core offers. Your Authority Score is 36 (solid mid-tier), supported by ~11k backlinks from ~1.2k referring domains.
Growth Opportunity
- Competitors are simply covering more search territory: litera.com earns ~17k organic visits and ranks for ~9k keywords vs your ~5k / ~1.3k, signaling a clear keyword footprint gap you can close.
- Non-brand, high-intent categories (legal billing, workflow management, resource management, matter pricing, legal BI) are underrepresented in your top traffic drivers—create more solution-led pages and supporting content clusters to capture demand beyond “BigHand” searches.
- Your traffic is concentrated on a few URLs, so systematic expansion (new landing pages + internal linking from resources/content hubs + updates to existing solution pages) should diversify and lift total traffic without needing a full authority rebuild.
Assessment
You have a credible authority foundation and strong brand demand, but you’re leaving substantial non-brand category traffic on the table. The “so-what” is that expanding content breadth—similar to what the category leader is doing—should unlock meaningful incremental organic growth. AirOps can help you scale this content and landing-page expansion programmatically and consistently.
Competition at a Glance
This analysis reviews 2 direct competitors (Litera and Aderant) alongside bighand.com, comparing organic search visibility by estimated monthly visits and ranking keyword coverage.
Among the three sites, bighand.com ranks 3rd for both organic search traffic (4,766 monthly visits) and ranking keywords (1,319). The market leader is litera.com, with 16,889 monthly organic visits and 9,025 ranking keywords, indicating substantially broader visibility across search demand.
Overall, BigHand’s position reflects a coverage gap more than an efficiency gap: BigHand generates relatively strong visits per keyword, but competitors—especially Litera—capture more demand through a much larger keyword footprint. In market terms, this places BigHand as a smaller-share organic presence in a category where visibility appears to be driven by breadth of topics and solutions represented in search results.
Opportunity Kickstarters
Here are your content opportunities, tailored to your domain's strengths. These are starting points for strategic plays that can grow into major traffic drivers in your market. Connect with our team to see the full traffic potential and activate these plays.
Create a programmatic directory of formatting and styling requirements for legal filings across thousands of jurisdictions. This strategy captures high-intent traffic from legal professionals ensuring compliance with local court rules.
Example Keywords
- "[court name] brief formatting requirements"
- "[state] appellate brief font size margin requirements"
- "motion formatting requirements [jurisdiction]"
- "local rule formatting requirements [court]"
Rationale
Legal teams frequently search for specific court rules to avoid document rejections. Providing these requirements at scale positions BigHand as an essential resource for document production.
Topical Authority
BigHand already has document styling product collateral indexed, such as the Hyperstyles datasheet, signaling strong adjacency to document production workflows.
Internal Data Sources
Use court datasets, rule source URLs, internal document styling guides, and support ticket insights regarding common filing rejection reasons.
Estimated Number of Pages
15,000–60,000 pages (Covering thousands of courts and multiple document types per jurisdiction)
Build a comprehensive encyclopedia of legal finance metrics, formulas, and report templates. This play targets operational intent queries that precede software purchasing decisions by providing immediate value to finance leaders.
Example Keywords
- "timekeeper utilization rate calculation"
- "billing cycle time benchmark"
- "WIP aging benchmark"
- "A/R days benchmark law firm"
Rationale
Competitors currently outperform BigHand in keyword footprint; this library scales coverage across the entire legal finance domain. It captures users looking for benchmarks and calculation methods.
Topical Authority
BigHand's existing organic traffic to solution pages like PrebillManager and Business Intelligence indicates Google associates the domain with legal financial outcomes.
Internal Data Sources
Leverage anonymized product telemetry, customer success playbooks, and transcripts from webinars and events to provide unique benchmark data.
Estimated Number of Pages
2,000–6,000 pages (Covering hundreds of metrics across various firm segments)
Develop a legal billing narrative phrasebook that provides compliant vs. non-compliant examples for time entry. This strategy addresses the direct pain point of billing leakage and invoice rejections at the source.
Example Keywords
- "time entry narrative examples"
- "block billing alternatives"
- "billing narrative compliance checklist"
- "write-down prevention time entry wording"
Rationale
Attorneys and billing managers search for ways to describe work that satisfies strict client guidelines. This play captures high-intent users looking to improve realization rates.
Topical Authority
BigHand's strong performance in billing-adjacent solution pages provides a credible foundation for expanding into time entry compliance content.
Internal Data Sources
Utilize anonymized edit-pattern insights from prebill review workflows, internal training docs, and common rejection reasons from support tickets.
Estimated Number of Pages
8,000–25,000 pages (Covering hundreds of tasks across multiple practice contexts and seniority levels)
Create an integration ecosystem directory detailing how BigHand connects with various practice management and accounting systems. This play targets technical buyers and users looking to optimize their existing legal tech stack.
Example Keywords
- "[system] integration for law firm timekeeping"
- "[system] reporting connector"
- "export [system] to [reporting tool]"
- "[system] API connector legal"
Rationale
Integration-intent searches are highly specific and indicate a user is deep in the solution-seeking phase. Mapping these connections builds authority in the broader legal tech ecosystem.
Topical Authority
BigHand's existing solution pages already earn traffic for legal operations software, making it a credible source for integration and data flow information.
Internal Data Sources
Use implementation guides, API documentation, field mapping tables, and Trust Center security compliance statements.
Estimated Number of Pages
1,500–4,000 pages (Covering hundreds of target systems with multiple page variants each)
Establish a "debugging manual" for billing operations that explains common invoice rejection reasons and how to fix them. This encyclopedia targets the exact buying committee responsible for revenue assurance and finance operations.
Example Keywords
- "invoice rejected due to billing guidelines"
- "e-billing rejection reasons"
- "legal invoice review checklist"
- "how to prevent invoice rejections"
Rationale
Billing managers and finance ops teams search for solutions to specific rejection codes and audit flags. Providing these fixes positions BigHand as a partner in revenue cycle management.
Topical Authority
This is a natural extension of BigHand's billing and process improvement positioning, supported by existing traffic to the PrebillManager solution page.
Internal Data Sources
Incorporate support ticket taxonomy of rejection causes, PS implementation checklists, and product documentation on recommended workflows.
Estimated Number of Pages
5,000–18,000 pages (Covering hundreds of rejection reasons across various matter types and expense categories)
Improvements Summary
Refocus each US “Our” page on a clear primary keyword set and rewrite above-the-fold copy to state what the product is plus measurable outcomes. Expand each page with consistent H2 sections (definition, challenges, features, use cases, integrations, security, implementation) plus proof blocks, FAQs, and tighter titles/meta to lift relevance and CTR.
Improvements Details
Map keywords per page: “business intelligence for law firms” (BI), “matter pricing” (Pricing), “legal budgeting software” + “law firm forecasting” (Budgeting), and refocus Prebillmanager to “legal pre-bill software”/“pre-bill review software” while de-emphasizing “big billing.” Add 2–4 case-study callouts, a “Trusted by” logo strip, and an FAQ section with FAQ schema; add Product/SoftwareApplication schema and Breadcrumbs. Build a US financial performance hub and add internal links between these pages plus 6–10 supporting guides (metrics, forecasting, matter pricing estimator, budget vs actual, pre-bill review best practices) to pass authority to the category pages.
Improvements Rationale
The pages show low non-brand traffic share on high-intent category terms, pointing to page-2 rankings and weak SERP packaging and/or thin topical coverage. More complete page sections, clearer keyword targeting, and stronger proof/FAQ content should improve relevance and click-through, while internal linking and supporting guides help compete for head terms over time. Refocusing Prebillmanager away from the ambiguous “big billing” query reduces relevance risk and should attract more qualified legal buyers.
Appendix
| Keyword | Volume | Traffic % |
|---|---|---|
| best seo tools | 5.0k | 3 |
| seo strategy | 4.0k | 5 |
| keyword research | 3.5k | 2 |
| backlink analysis | 3.0k | 4 |
| on-page optimization | 2.5k | 1 |
| local seo | 2.0k | 6 |
| Page | Traffic | Traffic % |
|---|---|---|
| /seo-tools | 5.0k | 100 |
| /keyword-research | 4.0k | 100 |
| /backlink-checker | 3.5k | 80 |
| /site-audit | 3.0k | 60 |
| /rank-tracker | 2.5k | 50 |
| /content-optimization | 2.0k | 40 |
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