Clicks
3
Keyword: "employment attorney miami" — all devices
Impressions
891
Keyword: "employment attorney miami" — all devices
CTR
0.34%
Keyword: "employment attorney miami" — all devices
Position
9.27
Keyword: "employment attorney miami" — primary query
Position 9.27 with a 0.34% CTR — the page is on page one for "employment attorney miami" and almost nobody clicks it. 891 impressions in 3 months produced 3 clicks. The pattern repeats across the whole Miami cluster: "employment lawyers miami" (3,281 impr, pos 8.89, 0 clicks), "miami florida employment lawyers" (401 impr, pos 3.16, 0 clicks), "employment lawyers miami fl" (380 impr, pos 3.51, 0 clicks). Ranking top-4 and earning zero clicks is not a ranking problem — it is a snippet problem. The title and meta say "Employment Attorney Miami" and nothing else: no fee signal, no phone, no proof. Every rival on this SERP ships at least one of those.
GSC — Device Breakdown for keyword "employment attorney miami" (keyword-filtered)
Impressions split almost evenly between mobile (461) and desktop (428). Desktop ranks nearly three positions higher (7.77 vs 10.66) yet converts worse (0.23% vs 0.43%) — on desktop the page sits below the local pack and the ads with a snippet that gives no reason to scroll to it. · Source: GSC keyword-filtered export 2026-09-17
⚠️ Semrush sees the same split GSC does: Gallardo owns the "labor" and "Florida" phrasings and loses the "lawyer(s)" phrasings.
Across the 30-keyword gap export (4,720 monthly searches, this page vs the same three competitors) Gallardo ranks #1–#3 on 17 keywords and in the top 10 on 23 — more than any rival (Garcia Hernandez 22, BT Law Group 8, Shook 8). But the two biggest terms are the exception: "employment lawyers miami" (720 vol) Gallardo #13 vs BT #4, and "employment attorney miami" (480 vol) Gallardo #14 vs BT #9. Every keyword where BT or Shook beats Gallardo contains the word lawyer or best; every keyword where Gallardo is #1 contains labor, Florida/FL or in Miami. The page's heading vocabulary is "attorney" — "lawyer" appears once, in the title tag, and never in an H1/H2.
Top 14 gap keywords by volume — Semrush position per page (green = best of the four, red = beyond #20)
| Keyword | Volume | KD | CPC | Gallardo | BT Law | G. Hernandez | Shook |
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| employment law miami fl | 720 | 39 | $6.11 | #1 | #15 | #14 | #4 |
| employment lawyers miami | 720 | 53 | $5.90 | #13 | #4 | #12 | #10 |
| employment attorney miami | 480 | 56 | $6.11 | #14 | #9 | #13 | #34 |
| labor attorney miami | 480 | 37 | $6.11 | #4 | #22 | #2 | #32 |
| employment lawyer miami | 320 | 52 | $5.90 | #13 | #5 | #14 | #4 |
| miami employment lawyer | 260 | 53 | $6.11 | #11 | #15 | #9 | #1 |
| miami employment attorney | 210 | 53 | $6.11 | #9 | #13 | #11 | #17 |
| miami florida employment lawyers | 170 | 38 | $6.11 | #1 | #10 | #9 | #31 |
| labor lawyer miami | 140 | 38 | $6.11 | #7 | #20 | #3 | #30 |
| employment law attorney miami | 90 | 49 | $6.11 | #9 | #12 | #8 | #18 |
| miami employment lawyers | 90 | 55 | $6.11 | #9 | #8 | #12 | #15 |
| best employment lawyers in south florida | 70 | 48 | $3.90 | #50 | #35 | #7 | #22 |
| employment attorney miami beach | 70 | 33 | $0.00 | #2 | #10 | #3 | #18 |
| employment attorney miami fl | 70 | 48 | $6.11 | #1 | #14 | #9 | #4 |
Source:
gap.keywords_2026-09-17.csv (Semrush, single-location snapshot; GSC's 9.27 for the head term is a 3-month average across every searcher location, which is why the two disagree). CPCs of $5.90–$13.70 put a dollar value on the gap: the 1,200 combined searches on the two "lawyer(s)" head terms where Gallardo sits on page two are the most expensive clicks in the export.🔑 Primary & Secondary Keywords — Page Analysis
Extracted from live page source — Gallardo ✅ | BT Law Group ✅ | Garcia Hernandez ✅ | Joseph Shook ✅ · Fetched 2026-09-17 · Authority row from Semrush Backlink Analytics (page vs competitor homepages)
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Gallardo 🔴 OUR PAGE gallardolawyers.com/employment/employment-attorney-miami |
BT Law Group ✅ btattorneys.com |
Garcia Hernandez ✅ hhlawflorida.com |
Joseph Shook ✅ josephshooklaw.com |
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| Title tag |
⚠️ 61 chars — exact-match, nothing else "Employment Attorney Miami - Labor Lawyers | Gallardo Law Firm" ❌ Carries the keyword and the brand and no reason to click. No "free consultation", no phone, no neighbourhood, no years. This is the tag a 0.34% CTR at position 9 is built on.
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⚠️ 88 chars — truncates, but the visible half works "Miami Employment Lawyers | ⚖️ Serving Brickell, Coral Gables, Miami Beach | BT Law Group" ✅ Leads with the plural "employment lawyers" (Gallardo's 3,281-impression zero-click query) and names three neighbourhoods — the "near me" and "miami beach" intent in one tag.
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✅ 58 chars — two geo variants, one superlative "Best Employment Attorney Miami | Labor Lawyer Coral Gables" Same head term as Gallardo plus "labor lawyer" and a second city. "Best" is a click-bait modifier that still works on a services SERP.
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⚠️ 52 chars — clean, generic "Employment Attorney in Miami | Joseph S. Shook, P.A." Keyword + personal brand. A solo practitioner's tag — nothing to differentiate it from Gallardo's.
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| H1 |
⚠️ "Employment Attorney Miami" Exact match, three words. Correct target, but the page then repeats the same ungrammatical string ("an employment attorney Miami from Gallardo") eight times in the body — it reads as keyword stuffing, not as English.
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✅ "Experienced Miami Employment Attorneys" Plural + qualifier. Title says "lawyers", H1 says "attorneys" — both synonyms covered in the two most important tags.
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✅ "Miami Experienced Labor & Employment Attorney" "Labor" and "employment" in one H1 — Gallardo's "labor" cluster is 4,453 impressions / 173 queries and its H1 does not contain the word.
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⚠️ "Civil Rights and Employment Attorney in Miami" Split focus — civil rights dilutes the employment signal. Duplicated verbatim as the first H2.
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| Primary keyword |
⚠️ employment attorney miami — 891 impr, pos 9.27 Title, H1, both H2s, the first H3 and the meta all carry the exact string. The plural and lawyer variants that carry most of the demand ("employment lawyers miami" 3,281, "miami employment lawyer" 504, "employment lawyer miami" 462) appear in no heading at all.
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miami employment lawyers / attorneys Both nouns, plural, Miami-first. The page is the firm's homepage, so it carries the full domain authority on this one term.
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employment attorney miami / labor lawyer Head-to-head with Gallardo on the exact term, plus "labor" in the title and H1.
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employment attorney in miami Singular, "in Miami" phrasing. Competes with Gallardo's "employment lawyer in miami" (118 impr, pos 4.43).
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| Secondary keywords (H2s) |
❌ 2 H2s — and one of them is the H1 again Hiring an Employment Attorney Miami · Common Labor Cases in the Workplace H3s: Importance of Hiring an Experienced Employment Attorney Miami · A Lawyer with Experience in Several Areas · Overview to Florida Employment Law · Gallardo Law Firm Provides Legal Representation… · Speak with Our Attorneys · FAQs ❌ No heading for overtime, discrimination, wrongful termination, harassment, retaliation or wages — the six clusters that supply ~8,000 impressions to this URL. The practice areas exist only as a 12-item link list.
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✅ 19 H2s — one per sub-intent Why Choose Our Miami Employment Law Firm? · Wrongful Termination: Fighting Unlawful Dismissals · Combating Workplace Discrimination · Addressing Unfair Labor Practices · Workplace Rights and Protections · Class and Collective Actions · Statute of Limitations for Employment Claims in Florida · plus 10 case-result H2s (Disability Discrimination & Retaliation, Wage Theft & Retaliation, Sexual Harassment & Constructive Discharge…) H3s go one level deeper: Pregnancy, Age, Race discrimination · Unpaid Wages and Overtime · Employee Misclassification · Whistleblower · FMLA.
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⚠️ 5 H2s — brand-heavy Fighting for the Rights of Employees in Miami, Florida · Garcia Hernandez, P.A. is an experienced Employment Law Firm… · Employment Law Practice Areas · Featured Practice Areas · …represents clients throughout Florida Practice areas (Discrimination, Unpaid Overtime, Sexual Harassment, Wrongful Termination, Whistleblower) are linked cards, not headings — the same weakness as Gallardo, on a multi-practice homepage.
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❌ 6 H2s — none is a keyword Civil Rights and Employment Attorney in Miami · where we have experience: · Our practice areas · Get your first consultation free! · Contact me · OFFICE HOURS Thinnest outline of the four. Practice areas are H3s: Civil Rights, Contract Law, Employment Law, Personal Injury.
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| Word count |
⚠️ ~1,640 words Generic "what is employment law / how to choose a lawyer" copy. Roughly 600 of those words are the FAQ accordion; the rest never names a specific statute, deadline or dollar figure.
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✅ ~6,350 words Nearly 4× Gallardo. Named statutes (ADA, FCRA, FLSA, FMLA, Florida Private Whistleblower Act), case results, attorney bios, deadlines. Depth is where the ranking edge comes from.
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~1,450 words Comparable to Gallardo, but split across nine practice areas (bankruptcy, family, real estate…) — the employment share is maybe 500 words.
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❌ ~880 words Thinnest page. First-person solo-practitioner copy with no sub-topic depth.
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| Cost signal |
❌ Contradictory Site banner: "No Win, No Fee For Injury Law Cases" — explicitly excludes this page. FAQ: "a contingency fee or a statutory fee… discuss this with the lawyer". Schema: priceRange: "$1500-$10000".A searcher gets three different answers and none of them is "free consultation".
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⚠️ Paid consultation — and they say so "We charge a reduced consultation fee that allows us to set aside dedicated time for one of our founding attorneys". Offset by four published results: $500,000 (ADA), $400,000 (whistleblower), $329,000 (FLSA overtime), $285,899 (contract + overtime).
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✅ Contingency, stated plainly "We handle cases on a contingency fee basis which means we only get paid after you do." Schema
priceRange: "Free Consultation". |
✅ "Get your first consultation free!" Its own H2. No fee structure beyond that.
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| Meta description |
❌ 157 chars — ends mid-sentence "Employment Attorney Miami. Gallardo Law Firm represents clients involved in labor law issues such as employment discrimination and job injuries. Legal advice" Opens with the keyword as a fragment, mentions "job injuries" (a workers'-comp topic, not this page) and trails off on "Legal advice". No phone, no free, no Spanish, no overtime, no wrongful termination.
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⚠️ 252 chars — truncates at ~155 "Experienced Miami employment lawyers serving workers in Brickell, Coral Gables, Aventura, North Miami, Miami Beach & throughout Miami-Dade County. Sexual harassment, discrimination, failure to accommodate, retaliation, wage theft, wrongful termination." ✅ The visible part still names five neighbourhoods and "workers" (employee-side). The case-type list is what gets cut.
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✅ 145 chars — names the attorney and three case types "Henry Hernandez is a top employment attorney in Miami, Florida, who fights for employment discrimination, sexual harassment, unpaid wages & more."
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⚠️ 150 chars — bio, not offer "Joseph Shook, Esq. is an experienced employment attorney in Miami with a general practice background who has spent over 30 years fighting for justice." "General practice background" is an odd thing to lead with on a specialist SERP.
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| FAQ coverage |
⚠️ 8 Q&As in an accordion — no FAQPage schema How do I find the appropriate employment attorney defense team? · Can I handle employment cases on my own? · How long can I wait before I take action against my employer? · How can I afford an employment defense team? · Can I choose any lawyer? · How do I know if I am able to get compensated for overtime? · …Is this considered a wrongful termination? · Can I sue my employer for physically hurting me? ❌ Three questions say "defense team" — this is an employee-side page. The deadline answer never states a number (300 days EEOC / 365 FCHR / 2–3 yrs FLSA).
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✅ 11 questions in FAQPage schema What is wrongful termination in Florida? · What types of discrimination can lead to an unlawful termination? · What is retaliation? · What are whistleblower protections in Florida? · What are class and collective actions? · Are family office employees entitled to overtime pay? · How do I contact BT Law Group?… Only page of the four eligible for FAQ rich results.
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❌ None "What Sets Us Apart?" is the only question-form heading and it is about the firm.
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❌ None
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| Trust signals |
❌ "+10 years of experience" and nothing else No attorney name, no bio, no review count, no rating, no award, no verdict, no settlement. The only differentiators are site-wide: "HABLAMOS ESPAÑOL", "24/7", "Virtual consultation". ✅ The Spanish signal is real — "abogado employment" (115 impr, pos 12.59) and "abogados laborales en miami" already land here.
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✅ Strongest of the four by a distance 30+ years combined · Best Lawyers in America · Super Lawyers top 5% + Rising Star · Florida Bar Grievance Committee Chair · two named partners with bios and photos · 4 dollar-figure results · Google reviews quoted with "Read full review on Google" links · "We used to defend companies, now we fight for you" · Spanish-preferred intake option.
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✅ Named attorney + review volume Henry Hernandez named in the meta · "15 years", "thousands of clients" · footer badge "Average Rating: 5, Reviews: 169" · client testimonials · full Spanish-language site version. ⚠️ The 169-review figure is text only — not in schema, so no stars.
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⚠️ Tenure only "Over thirty-five (35) years", "millions of dollars in awards" (personal injury, not employment). No reviews, no awards, no named results.
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| CTA |
⚠️ Diffuse "Contact us Today" (×2, hero) · "Request Consultation" (form) · "Free Call (305) 261-7000" · "Confidential Case Review" · "Speak with Our Attorneys" (H3) Five different verbs, none of them says what happens next or that the consultation is free.
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✅ One number, repeated everywhere "CALL NOW (305) 507-8506" (sticky header) · "GET HELP NOW" · Call / Text / Email buttons · a 10-field intake form (employer, salary, still employed?, Spanish preferred?) The intake form pre-qualifies the lead before the paid consult — the CTA and the fee model are designed together.
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"Contact us Now" · "Request A Call Back" · "Call us Now (305) 771-3374" · "Get Consultation" Call-back form above the fold, phone in the sticky bar.
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"Request appointment" · "Contact me" · 305-446-4177 Single form, office hours listed. Minimal.
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| Schema markup |
⚠️ LegalService + Service, no FAQ, no rating ✅ LegalService + PostalAddress + AdministrativeArea ✅ Service + OfferCatalog + Offer ❌ No FAQPage (8 Q&As on the page, unmarked) ❌ No AggregateRating ❌ No Person / attorney ❌
priceRange: "$1500-$10000" is a hard number on a page whose FAQ says fees are contingency or statutory. |
✅ Broadest schema on the SERP ✅ LegalService + FAQPage (11 Q) ✅ Person ×2 (partners) + Organization ✅ VideoObject + AudioObject + SpeakableSpecification ✅ BreadcrumbList + WebPage + WebSite + City + GeoCoordinates ✅ Offer + OfferCatalog ⚠️ No AggregateRating despite quoting Google reviews on-page.
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✅ LegalService + Person + Organization ✅ Article + WebPage + WebSite + SearchAction ✅ GeoCoordinates + PostalAddress + ImageObject ❌ No FAQPage, no AggregateRating priceRange: "Free Consultation". |
❌ Generic CMS schema only ✅ Organization + WebPage + WebSite
✅ BreadcrumbList + ImageObject ❌ No LegalService, no Person, no FAQPage, no rating |
| Authority & backlinks (Semrush) |
❌ AS 4 · 3 backlinks · 2 referring domains An inner page with almost no links of its own, competing against three homepages. Semrush still estimates 18.4K organic visits/month to this URL — 14× BT's homepage — because the generic "employment lawyer" query lands here. The ranking is carried by the domain and the on-page match, not by links.
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✅ AS 69 · 2.9K backlinks · 683 referring domains Highest authority of the four. Est. 1.3K organic visits/month.
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✅ AS 51 · 27.8K backlinks · 490 referring domains Most raw links (site-wide footer/sidebar links inflate the count). Est. 764 organic visits/month.
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AS 49 · 681 backlinks · 254 referring domains Est. 64 organic visits/month — the authority is not converting into traffic.
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🔑 Key takeaway from keyword analysis:
Why BT Law Group is the page to beat on this SERP:
1. They cover every sub-intent Gallardo ranks for but never names. Wrongful termination, discrimination, wage theft, overtime, sexual harassment, retaliation and statute of limitations are each an H2 or H3 with 200–400 words. Gallardo has ~8,000 impressions across those six clusters and zero headings for any of them
2. Their title tag does the CTR work. "Miami Employment Lawyers | Serving Brickell, Coral Gables, Miami Beach" picks up the plural (Gallardo's 3,281-impression zero-click query), the neighbourhood searches and "near me" intent in one tag. Gallardo's title is the keyword and the brand
3. Four dollar figures and two named partners. $500,000 / $400,000 / $329,000 / $285,899, Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers top 5%, Bar Grievance Committee chair. Gallardo's page contains no attorney name, no result, no review and no award — "+10 years" is the entire proof stack
4. FAQPage schema with 11 questions. The only page of the four eligible for the FAQ rich result. Gallardo has 8 Q&As on the page already and ships none of them as schema
5. ~6,350 words with statutes named. ADA, FCRA, FLSA, FMLA, Florida Private Whistleblower Act, EEOC/FCHR deadlines. Gallardo's 1,640 words never cite a statute or a deadline — the FAQ answer to "how long can I wait?" does not contain a number
1. They cover every sub-intent Gallardo ranks for but never names. Wrongful termination, discrimination, wage theft, overtime, sexual harassment, retaliation and statute of limitations are each an H2 or H3 with 200–400 words. Gallardo has ~8,000 impressions across those six clusters and zero headings for any of them
2. Their title tag does the CTR work. "Miami Employment Lawyers | Serving Brickell, Coral Gables, Miami Beach" picks up the plural (Gallardo's 3,281-impression zero-click query), the neighbourhood searches and "near me" intent in one tag. Gallardo's title is the keyword and the brand
3. Four dollar figures and two named partners. $500,000 / $400,000 / $329,000 / $285,899, Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers top 5%, Bar Grievance Committee chair. Gallardo's page contains no attorney name, no result, no review and no award — "+10 years" is the entire proof stack
4. FAQPage schema with 11 questions. The only page of the four eligible for the FAQ rich result. Gallardo has 8 Q&As on the page already and ships none of them as schema
5. ~6,350 words with statutes named. ADA, FCRA, FLSA, FMLA, Florida Private Whistleblower Act, EEOC/FCHR deadlines. Gallardo's 1,640 words never cite a statute or a deadline — the FAQ answer to "how long can I wait?" does not contain a number
What Gallardo must fix to convert this page (pos 9.27, 891 impr, 3 clicks, 0.34% CTR):
1. Rewrite the title and meta for clicks, not for the crawler. The page already ranks; it loses on the snippet. Title: "Miami Employment Lawyers — Free Consultation | Hablamos Español | Gallardo Law Firm". Meta: lead with the employee's problem (fired, unpaid overtime, harassed), state the free consultation, carry (305) 261-7000 and "Se habla español". This is the one change that moves 0.34% at position 9 — and the 0 clicks at position 3.16 on "miami florida employment lawyers"
2. Add one H2 per cluster the URL already surfaces for. Unpaid Overtime & Wages (2,369 impr, pos 17 — page two, the biggest gap), Wrongful Termination (1,056), Workplace Discrimination (1,555), Sexual Harassment (1,192, pos 29–42), Retaliation & Whistleblower. 150–250 words each, each linking to its dedicated spoke page — that is also how the discrimination cannibalisation (hub at 5.67, spoke at 46.4) gets resolved
3. Mark up the FAQ that already exists and fix its copy. Wrap the 8 Q&As in
4. Put a person and a number on the page. Name the employment attorney(s) with a
5. Resolve the fee contradiction. Delete
1. Rewrite the title and meta for clicks, not for the crawler. The page already ranks; it loses on the snippet. Title: "Miami Employment Lawyers — Free Consultation | Hablamos Español | Gallardo Law Firm". Meta: lead with the employee's problem (fired, unpaid overtime, harassed), state the free consultation, carry (305) 261-7000 and "Se habla español". This is the one change that moves 0.34% at position 9 — and the 0 clicks at position 3.16 on "miami florida employment lawyers"
2. Add one H2 per cluster the URL already surfaces for. Unpaid Overtime & Wages (2,369 impr, pos 17 — page two, the biggest gap), Wrongful Termination (1,056), Workplace Discrimination (1,555), Sexual Harassment (1,192, pos 29–42), Retaliation & Whistleblower. 150–250 words each, each linking to its dedicated spoke page — that is also how the discrimination cannibalisation (hub at 5.67, spoke at 46.4) gets resolved
3. Mark up the FAQ that already exists and fix its copy. Wrap the 8 Q&As in
FAQPage schema (a same-day change; only BT has it). Replace "defense team" with "employment lawyer" in the three questions that use it — this is an employee-side page. Put real numbers in the deadline answer: 300 days to the EEOC, 365 days to the FCHR, 2–3 years under the FLSA4. Put a person and a number on the page. Name the employment attorney(s) with a
Person entity and photo; add at least one result or a review count with AggregateRating. Nobody on this SERP ships stars — Garcia Hernandez has 169 reviews in text and no schema — so the first firm that does gets the only star row on page one5. Resolve the fee contradiction. Delete
priceRange: "$1500-$10000" from the schema, stop the injury-only "No Win, No Fee" banner from rendering on employment pages, and state one policy in the hero and the FAQ: free consultation, contingency where the case allows. Then stop repeating "employment attorney Miami" as an ungrammatical noun eight times — use "Miami employment lawyer(s)" and "employment attorney in Miami" so the copy covers the plural and lawyer variants naturally
