When you run a law firm, it’s likely that your clients are your top priority. A major way to serve your existing clients while attracting new ones is to make sure your website is up to date and ranks well in search engine results. While this does involve keyword research, optimization, and paid ads, a significant player in website ranking is creating valuable, high-quality content for your site. This often gets overlooked and can have a drastic effect on your site traffic.
If you have content that is outdated, poorly written, inadequately researched, or disorganized, users will likely become frustrated with your site and move on. This hurts your bounce time and ultimately decreases your position in search engine results.
The exact content will change from industry to industry, but there are certain qualities of good website content that can be applied as standards for all types of businesses. Good content should do one or more of the following:
If your content is fulfilling one of these needs, you are on the right track. However, presentation matters too. Your content should be all of the following:
Following these standards, you can create content that is on its way to boosting your website traffic. However, we have more tips to help you ensure your blog’s success.
What your audience is interested in reading might be very different from what you think they need to know. Making guesses about topics, keywords, and formats that will draw in readers is a waste of time and resources. Instead, make sure that you do research and find out definitively what your clients want to see. There are tangible, logical data points that can inform your writing, and through these research processes, you not only pull in readers, but you also beat the algorithm.
Your content should be approachable, yes, but it also should show that you know what you’re doing. The best way to combine these two concepts is by following your information with examples, case studies, statistics, or legal processes. This information remains readable and understandable to most people but also shows that you have information and examples to back up what you are saying. This increases credibility and builds trust between you and your new clients.
The way we consume information in the modern world is very different than it used to be. There is so much available on the internet that it is easy to become fatigued or overwhelmed by large articles, regardless of topic. Break up your content with subheadings, bullet lists, graphics, and fresh paragraphs to give readers a more scannable document. You are more likely to attract audiences with information that has a digestible layout than a full page of text, regardless of how thorough and accurate the information is. At the end of the day, it’s best to be concise and clear.
Ensure that the writing on your website has proper grammar and punctuation. Thoroughly edit all your information, and make sure that it makes sense and flows well. After you edit, have at least two other people read it to ensure that you have achieved your goal with the content and that everything is clear.
You have to remember that the internet is a vast place. Because of this, you have to give potential clients a reason to visit your site over your competitors. If you write basic information without a personal spin or new perspective, audiences have no reason to click on your site because they have either read the information elsewhere or can find it on a more popular site. Especially when you are growing your business, make sure the content is fresh, new, and has never been done before.
Especially in law, it is easy to get very technical with your information. There are a lot of terms, phrases, and concepts that are second nature to you as an attorney but that are not general knowledge. Remember this when you are writing. If your audience gets confused by too many words or is intimidated by the language or concepts, they will leave and likely never come back. It is your challenge as the attorney to distill the necessary information into terms the public understands.
The flip side of the above suggestion is that audiences will also leave if they feel they are being talked down to or treated as if they are stupid. While you want to put things into concepts that they can understand, it’s also important to treat them as intelligent adults. Creating this balance is difficult, but it is essential to creating high-quality content that audiences want to read.
As we mentioned above, there are several objectives to creating online content, such as to inform, to help, to answer a question, etc. When you are creating content for a blog, be sure that you change objectives with each post. If your last post was an informative post about divorce, for example, your next post should answer a question or provide an action plan. Even if the practice area remains the same, vary your objective to diversify your content.
Creating high-quality content is challenging, especially if you have a law practice to balance at the same time. Hiring a professional digital marketing agency to help you create quality content can ensure that you’re hitting all the right points without having to lift a finger.
When it comes to top-quality evergreen content for your law firm’s website, no one has more experience than RizeUp. We are industry leaders in digital marketing and can help improve your law firm’s blog or website content with ease. Don’t wait; contact us today.
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