Thursday, 02 September 2010



If you already have a unique, high quality website with search engine optimization techniques and professional content, you may be wondering what else you can do to amplify your online presence.

Law Promo has the solution: create a blog.

  • Blogs can be an effective legal marketing tool for your law firm.
  • A number of lawyer blogs are created daily, don’t be left behind.
  • Attorney blogs will boost your law firm website SEO power.
  • A law firm blog can help unite your staff and clientele.
  • Law Promo has the experience necessary to develop an effective legal blog for you.

Now, we recognize why some may be skeptical of this technique. Blogs have the stereotype of being poorly written and lacking in substance, but stereotypes are meant to be broken. If you take a look around the Internet, you will see that law firms and attorneys can use blogs in many different ways to help their business expand.

The most important step in creating a blog is to find the right domain name for your firm. In the early blogging days, a blog hosting site was fine, but those days are history. Today, anyone can create a blog, but you want to show potential clients that you’re not just anyone. A domain name is imperative to maintaining credibility as an attorney.

Blogging may not be your expertise, but we have the experience needed to help with your blog development. We first need to figure out what you want from the blog. There's a number of different reasons to have a blog and you should pick which best represents your firm’s goals.

The key to understanding why blogs are so important for every attorney and law firm is to realize that it boosts your search engine optimization. We can help you develop the correct key words to place you above your competitors. The more you update your blog with new contents, the better for your SEO.

Some law firms use blogging as a way to distribute news about the company. They can offer a more relaxed atmosphere to show clients additional activities that go on in the office besides work, helping them relate to your firm. Or the blog can be just as official as your website and used exclusively to highlight new cases. We can work with you to deduce what's best for your firm.

Another way to use blogs is to discuss what you think about current legal events. If you’ve recently become a sole practitioner or are a newly created firm, a blog that discusses current legal events and how they relate to you or your firm will give potential clients an idea of your philosophy and background.

Potential clients can also utilize lawyer blogs to review recent cases similar to theirs and then post questions concerning them. A casual dialog then begins, one that could lead to a new case for your firm.

Another blog function is to serve as a bridge between lawyers on the staff of large law firms who may sometimes feel disconnected with attorneys in other offices. Even if your firm has a small staff, they may be too busy to follow everything going on in the firm.

As you can see, blogs are much more useful than some give them credit. Now let Law Promo help you create a blog to place you on the cutting edge of the online community.