How does this relate to the existing manaksolicitors.co.uk WordPress site?
It is a single-page rebuild of the /sevenoaks-solicitors/ route, designed to be lifted into the existing firm-wide site as a standalone Sevenoaks office page (the other three offices keep their current page). Two options on handover: (a) port the rebuild back into the Salient WordPress template that matches, so the firm-wide CMS keeps editing rights, or (b) host the Sevenoaks page on the Astro / Vercel build and 301 the old URL to it. Either way the rest of the firm-wide manaksolicitors.co.uk site is left alone. The Sevenoaks page is the unit of work, not the whole firm.
Why a Sevenoaks-only rebuild rather than a firm-wide one?
Because the Sevenoaks office has the most to gain. Multi-office solicitors are bought one office at a time: a Sevenoaks family-law enquiry is comparing Manak Sevenoaks against Knocker and Foskett, Thomson Snell and Passmore, Wellers or Thackray Williams, not against Manak Orpington. The current firm-wide template flattens that office-by-office competition. Fixing Sevenoaks first costs a fraction of a firm-wide rebuild and shows whether the structure (named lawyer above the fold, photograph of the door, Instant Instruct in the hero, schema on the office page) lifts the office’s share of "family solicitor Sevenoaks", "conveyancer TN13", "wills LPA Sevenoaks" search results. If it does, the same structure ports to Orpington, Gravesend and Biggin Hill.
What schema, exactly, gets added?
A single LegalService plus LocalBusiness JSON-LD block on the Sevenoaks office page with full PostalAddress (46 London Road, TN13 1AS), telephone in E.164 (+441732207207), email (info@manaksolicitors.co.uk), opening hours, and SRA Organisation 627738 as a credentialed identifier. Person entries for Aneeta Kaur Kang (SRA 481628, Family Director), Jasdeep Singh Jandu (Executive Director, Residential Property and Private Client) and Surinder Singh Manak (SRA 21698, Managing Director, founder). Four Service entries (Family law and divorce, Residential conveyancing and Instant Instruct, Wills / LPA / Probate, Multilingual and HNW). A FAQPage entry for the five questions on the page itself. The firm-wide Organization stays where it is; this is additive, not replacing.
Where does Instant Instruct sit in the rebuild without overshadowing the lawyers?
Instant Instruct gets a dedicated pillar in the hero (one of two, the other being Aneeta and the Family desk) with a 90-second quote CTA that deep-links into i.manaksolicitors.co.uk. Lower down, a Modern Platform section names Instant Instruct, the AI Legalese Translator, the multilingual reception across five languages (English, French, Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu), the wheelchair-accessible ground-floor premises and the remote-meeting options. The lawyers stay foregrounded because every CTA in the hero routes either to the named lawyer or to Instant Instruct, not to a generic contact form. The platform earns its space because it is the one thing the heritage Sevenoaks firms cannot match, not because it replaces the people.
What does the fixed fee cover and what is excluded?
£2,000 covers the full Sevenoaks-office-page rebuild as described above: hero with named lawyer and 46 London Road photograph, directors-row, four-line service grid, Instant Instruct pillar, heritage band, FAQ, visit block with embedded map, full JSON-LD, meta and og tags, one round of revisions before publish, DNS or route handover. £150 per month covers ongoing hosting on Vercel (or the WP-port equivalent), monthly schema review as the team changes, security updates, monthly analytics email and one editorial change per month included. £50 per month optional embedded chatbot trained on the FAQs answers the five front-door questions in writing and routes anything novel to info@. Excluded: firm-wide rebrand work, the other three office pages, the firm-wide site navigation, the Instant Instruct platform itself (which already works), and any content the SRA wants restructured. If the rebuild lands and the firm wants the same treatment for Orpington, Gravesend or Biggin Hill, that is a separate scope at the same fixed-fee rate.
