Never write a law blog for the search engines
am 26.05.2008 von http://log.handakte.de/
A lot of lawyers publish blogs for the sole reason of achieving high search engine rankings. Their blogs show it.
You’ve seen these blogs - or maybe you haven’t as word of such tasteless marketing doesn’t spread across the net or generate links as is the case with well done law blogs.
They’re the blogs with post titles with keyword spam repeating the lawyer’s area of practice and location. They’ll have categories repeating the same keywords over and over. And the posts, rather than serving up something worthwhile look like the lawyer …
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