18 Jul 10 How You Can Write Copy For Your Attorney Website

Law firm web marketing starts with a built-in difficulty regarding the material you are writing for your website or blog. It is because the subject matter is intricate, in depth, and calls for an advanced degree to understand completely. The content on your website and/or blog is met with the unenviable challenge of presenting, in layman’s terms, very sophisticated subjects while at the same time confronting the short lived concentration of internet users.

It is essential to understand that crafting copy for your website is unique and must be approached differently than other styles of conventional writing.

Successful attorney internet advertising requires knowing how to craft internet copy

I am going to address writing web copy from the viewpoint of user friendliness and engaging your readers. Even though it is also important to understand how to create website copy for search engine marketing,I will reserve that subject for a different post.

Here are a few tips to take into account when writing content for your firm’s website:

People reading your website scan through the pagesthey don’t read them – Keep your paragraphs and sentences concise. Use headlines and bolding that point out your primary messages.

Utilize bullet points – Consumers like lists on the web. Any time lists and bullets are applied appropriately, a person can more easily look at and process the points you make.

Start a conversation, less “marketing speak” – I often emphasize that consumers want to buy from other individuals, not faceless firms. This is particularly legitimate when marketing professional services. Make sure you write with your style, while maintaining a professional tone.

Stay away from legal writing – Not only doesn’t the average joe comprehend it, but these people will quickly dismiss your material and move ahead to another website. Focus is fleeting online, if a prospective client doesn’t have an understanding of what you are expressing, they will quickly go someplace else.

Make use of photographs, video, and designs in your writing (where applicable) – This can make your website much more aesthetically interesting and draws the users in.

A fantastic book to read on the topic is Net Copy by Nick Usborne. It is a fast read that details how to approach writing for the web.

Taking a deeper look at the content on your firm’s website will enhance the success of your law firm internet marketing.

Understanding how to create engaging website copy is important for your law firm marketing. Writing copy that appeals to a user increases engagement and can be a nice compliment to your lawyer SEO.

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Tags: Articles, attorney, blogs, copy writing, internet, internet content, lawyer, legal, Legal Writing, posts, Web Content, Web Copy, Website Content, writing

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08 May 10 What Does Good Content Mean?

Seasoned bloggers will always ask you to post good content on your blog, which indeed is what it takes to make your blog a hit. But the question is what is good content, and how will you tell if content is good or not? It will not remain a mystery for you, as soon as you will be through with this article.

Good content is scannable

Yes, you read it write. For web, good content means a chunk of content that could be scanned easily, grasping all the meaning while doing so. Text-heavy non-scannable contents are not good.

Good content is formatted well

An article that starts and goes on forever paragraph after paragraph is not the kind of article you will like to write for the online audience. No one reads loads and loads of texts on the website or a blog. Use heading, sub-heading, and bullet points to format an article. If you want, you can also insert an image or two and/or a chart in the article or blog post you write for online medium.

It should add value

A well-formatted article or blog cannot be said to be good if it does not add value the readers. Your piece should make your reader smarter by even a bit when he done with reading it. Articles and blog posts that go on and on but add nothing put visitors off.

Well-constructed

A good article or a blog post starts from a definite point and ends at a certain place. Do not begin from anywhere. Start with an introduction, and end with a conclusion.

Cohesive

A good article or blog post is cohesive. It does not fall apart after couple of sentences of paragraphs. And to get cohesion in your article, you need to make a structure of what you are to write, and what all you will include in it.

These are the critical components of good content. Always keep these in mind when writing an article or a blog post, even when writing website content.

Tags: Audience, blog, Bullet Points, Chunk, Cohesion, Conclusion, Critical Components, Definite Point, Formatted Article, Mystery, Paragraph, Paragraphs, Sentences, Texts, Web Content, Website Content

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26 Nov 09 SEO Tips – Optimize Your E-Commerce Website – IV

In the first part of SEO for e-commerce website, I talked about how to use keywords in your e-commerce website, in the second part, I dealt about the nuances of writing proper tags, and the third part talked about how to avoid duplicate content. This is the fourth part of the series, and in this part, I will talk about internal linking. I hope, you are applying these practical tips in your e-commerce website, if you are not then today is the day to start doing it.

Contextual linking

Navigation links do not tell any story to sooth the search engine crawlers’ pain caused by constantly crawling through the pages. It just says: here is page A and here is page B and road to both places goes from here. How can you expect to derive any value from this? You need to inject links to different pages in your website within the content to get link juice. This will build contextual link which will tell the search engine crawlers a story they will love.

Link in product description

Interlinking two products by placing links within the product descriptions of the product is a nice little way to make all the pages visible to search bots and it provides an opportunity to squeeze juices out of long tail keywords.

Avoid using “View” or “More” words as anchor text

This is most common mistake committed by most of the e-commerce websites. Many webmasters put a brief description on the product category page about various products and use “View”, “more”, “click here to read more”, etc., beneath every brief description to direct the users to the product pages.

Avoid using such generic terms, instead, use a proper keyword (or even a long tail keyword) to link every product pages with the product category page. This will inform your prospects as well as search bots about the content on the next page. This strategy will help you a lot in improving your website ranking.

Tags: Anchor Text, Brief Description, E Commerce Website, Generic Terms, Juices, Keywords, Lot, Mistake, Nuances, Product Category, Product Description, Product Descriptions, Proper Tags, Prospects, search engine, SEO, Webmasters, Website Content

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18 Jul 10 How You Can Write Copy For Your Attorney Website

08 May 10 What Does Good Content Mean?

Good content is scannable

Good content is formatted well

It should add value

Well-constructed

Cohesive

26 Nov 09 SEO Tips – Optimize Your E-Commerce Website – IV

Contextual linking

Link in product description

Avoid using “View” or “More” words as anchor text

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