Attorney Website Design Blog

Over the past few years, legal weblogs, also referred to as blogs, have become increasingly popular as a medium through which individuals can communicate their thoughts on a wide array of issues. When utilized correctly, your law blog can help you attract new clients, keep you connected to current clients, establish you as an authority in your respective areas of practice and assist with search engine optimization. Below we have provided you with some tips on the ins and outs of maintaining a successful blog.

Blog Topics
First and foremost, your blog entries and the topics they cover should be interesting.  You may wish to use local or national news stories to highlight the need for your services. For example, if you are an estate planning attorney, you might post a blog entry about a celebrity death and the aftermath as it relates to their estate plan. If you are an elder law attorney, you may wish to track a proposed law concerning Medicare as it makes its way through the House and Senate detailing the implications for your clients. 

It is important to note that blog entries are not intended to be scholarly pieces. Instead, they allow you to reflect on a certain issue and express your professional opinion on the matter.  As you write these entries, let your own voice be heard. Your site should serve as a place where potential clients can get a good feel of who you are and what you have to offer; your blog can help convey both your expertise and personality.

To encourage people to read these posts, you should keep them short. At times it is okay to write a lengthier piece, when the subject matter requires a more thorough discussion, but this should not be the norm with all blog entries.

How Often
The success of your blog lies not only in the quality of your blog entries but also in how frequently you post new content to the page. With your law blog, be regular.  You should try to write at least once or twice a week.  Finding time to write can be difficult so it might be a wise decision to schedule in one or two spots throughout the week to sit down and tackle new blog entries.

As professionals, you stay up-to-date on developments within your field. Use the Amicus Creative Blogging System to share this knowledge with others and make more contacts with individuals interested in your work. Visitors can subscribe via email to automatically be notified of new blog entries. More sophisticated subscribers can use the RSS feature.
 

Representatives from Amicus Creative will be attending two conferences in Chicago over the next week. From July 30 to August 2, we will be in attendance at the 2009 Annual American Bar Association (ABA) Meeting. Then from August 4 to August 6, you will find us at the WealthCounsel event, "Planning for the Generations" 

If you are interested in learning more about our services, please visit our booth where members of the Amicus Creative team are available to give you a demonstration on our feature-packed attorney website system and answer any questions you might have.

If you are already a client of ours, please stop by and meet the Amicus crew on site. We always enjoy getting to know our clients a bit better and hearing your thoughts on how we can improve our services.

We look forward to seeing you in Chicago!
 

If you have a site on the web, you have probably been contacted by a Search Engine Optimization “Expert” who promises to get your site on the first Google search engine result page (SERP) in record time.  They often claim that they can elevate your website's rank within days and promise that your site will have a permanent place in these top positions. Unfortunately, most of these individuals, and the companies they represent, are scam artists hoping to charge top dollar for services they can’t provide. 

Truth be told, there is no instant solution which will improve your site’s rankings.  As you may know, search engine algorithms are officially secret and further, their behavior randomized so that it is virtually impossible to know everything that affects search engine behavior. However, there are proven tactics, which when used correctly, can increase your site’s visibility over time.

Quality content will likely influence your website more than any other search engine optimization strategy. Be sure that your content is well written and easy-to-read. When drafting text for your site, use relevant language containing the keywords and locations which users might search when trying to find your practice. Also, add new content whenever possible in the form of either Articles or preferably Blog Entries.  The Amicus Creative blogging system is particularly well-suited because of the way it formats keywords.

While there is no quick fix to improve your site’s ranking with the major search engines, adding relevant content on a consistent basis over time will surely assist your site in its climb to the top of the results pages.

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Our new Blog was designed with our clients in mind.   On this page, we will be discussing ways in which you can work with your website, improve your search engine rankings and get the most from your online marketing.

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