Category Archives: Blogging

52% of Top 100 Blogs Are WordPress

Since DSD employs WordPress exclusively as the platform for client websites, this statistic is good news.  I’m not sure why these heavy hitters favor WordPress but here are some of the reasons why I do: It is very easy to … Continue reading

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Tips to Make Your Lawyer Blog Popular!

This post which focuses purely on how to be popular is pretty funny and also largely true.  It also brings blogging back to basics.  And the basics start with the question, “why blog?” Before I started this blog, I set up a … Continue reading

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Tip of the Week: Blogging as Part of Your Weekly Routine

Recently, I have been talking with a number of marketing people about the issue of maintaining a blog.  Many, many people want to be bloggers and many, many people fail to stick with it.  Here are some tips to address … Continue reading

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Big Law Firms Adopting Blogs

Here is a link to a report summary showing how rapidly Amlaw 200 firms have adopted blogging as a key medium for distributing legal content. 78% of Amlaw firms have blogs or attorneys that are blogging Employment law is the … Continue reading

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Google Reader Out – Here Are Alternatives

Here is one of the downsides to the “free” model of the Internet.  Google is the prime example.  They produce lots of free services, get us hooked and then unceremoniously discontinue the service because it isn’t making them money.  For … Continue reading

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Blogging Can Seal the Deal for Lawyer

Here is a representative account of someone searching to hire an attorney.  Note that they started online by looking at local law firms and attorneys specializing in the area of law the client needed assistance.  Then the searcher looked at … Continue reading

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How Lawyers SHOULDN’T Blog

An attorney in Illinois is the target of a complaint filed in Illinois  by their “Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission” because she allegedly is attempting “defeat the administration of justice.”  This attorney is blogging about “corruption and greed in the … Continue reading

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Lawyers: Go Lightly on Case Comments

Jordan Furlong of “Law Firm Web Strategy,” points out four bad habits of underachieving legal blogs.  His number one complaint is the reliance of legal blogs on case commentary for the vast majority of their blog content. How to Turn … Continue reading

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Blogging Ideas for Attorneys

Given that attorneys struggle with what to write about on a regular basis, this list of 13 ideas will help get the juices flowing. Remember Your Audience The 13 ideas is a useful beginning and I do agree that attorneys need … Continue reading

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Blogging Requires Patience

I say this for several reasons. Because it takes months and even years for you to become acknowledged for your expertise in what you are blogging about It requires a commitment to posting content on a consistent and regular basis … Continue reading

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