Law firm marketing is essential, and we’ve made no secret that Blue Seven Content is focused exclusively on providing the best legal content writers in the business. We do this by seeking out the writers who already have proven writing skills then provide them with our legal content writing guides and an interactive training session. Blue Seven also has monthly writer meetings. We know that there isn’t a single legal marketing agency out there that does any of this.
But we also know that business partnerships are essential. Because we only provide the written content that law firms need, we’ve partnered with webLegal so law firms have even more options available to them. Formerly known as WebsLaw, webLegal provides a range of services that help ensure a law firm’s brand shine online.
Our Law Firm Marketing Partnership is Ongoing
webLegal has been around for quite a while. They have had ongoing relationships with law firms throughout the United States for the better part of a decade. Blue Seven Content founders, Allen Watson and Victoria Lozano, both started their legal writing careers at webLegal.
As Allen and Victoria moved forward on their own paths, it was always inevitable that they’d end up working with webLegal in one way or another. The partnership is stronger than ever, as both companies work hand-in-hand with one another with dozens of clients each month.
What Services Come With This Partnership?
Blue Seven provides great legal content for law firms throughout the US. On any given day, our writers are hard at work on:
webLegal can bring you the whole package when it comes to helping law firms land prospective leads that turn into quality clients. webLegal focuses on:
Creative development
Law firm digital strategy
Organic digital marketing
Local SEO
Paid digital solutions
PPC for law firms
Google Ads for law firms
Law firm video production
When a law firm needs to ramp up its digital marketing, a call to webLegal and Blue Seven Content will completely change the ballgame.
Contact Our Teams to Get The Law Firm Marketing Results You Need
If you are wondering what your next steps should be to get your law firm’s online presence rolling in the right direction, Blue Seven Content and webLegal are ready to help. You can reach out to either of our teams to get started.
You can contact Blue Seven for a free consultation by clicking here or calling us at 843-580-3158. When you contact Blue Seven, you will be connected directly with the company’s founders.
Whether you only need written content for your existing webpage or are looking to start or revamp your entire law firm website, you can count on the Blue Seven Content and webLegal partnership for help.
Written by Allen Watson – CEO and Co-Founder of Blue Seven Content
Everyone can write legal content, especially lawyers…right?
Sure, lawyers can write … Good legal writing is well researched and persuasive.
And legal content is writing … Good legal content is well researched and persuasive.
So why don’t most lawyers write good legal content?
Legal writing is written for an audience of lawyers or others familiar with the law. Legal writing applies existing law to specific facts and attempts to persuade a decision-maker to rule a certain way based on a factual analysis.
Legal content is intended to educate an audience of non-lawyers about the law and available legal solutions. Legal content reveals how the law generally applies in given situations and attempts to persuade a person to make the decision to hire an attorney or law firm.
While traditional legal writing and legal content writing share many similarities, they are designed to influence distinctly different audiences and are intended to produce different results.
1. Legal Content is about Marketing
Why do most lawyers and law firm websites have blogs? And why is it important to keep fresh content posted regularly? Legal content is law firm advertising. Much of law firm advertising has moved online where the competition for attention is fierce and the rules of the game change rapidly.
Legal content needs to be a precision blend of education, inspiration, and motivation that will move potential clients into action. Content needs to give readers the information that they are looking for while creating the feeling that the writer has the solution they are looking for.
Good legal content must be infused with benefits for the reader. Better legal content takes the reader on a journey that they can relate to. Great legal content rides in on a white horse and gives the reader exactly what is desired.
Knowledge of digital marketing practices is essential to creating legal content that will perform well and attract new clients.
2. Legal Content Needs Style
A judge is going to have to read a legal brief no matter how uninteresting it appears. A potential client has no such obligation when it comes to legal content.
Any content needs to be formatted to get the attention of the targeted reader. The content of a law firm’s webpage needs to be presented so that it attracts the reader and then holds the reader’s attention.
Legal content needs to be organized so that the major points jump out when skimmed to let the reader know that a deeper dive into the content is warranted – it requires a visual appeal that legal writing does not.
Keeping paragraphs short helps break up chunks of text that are intimidating to readers.
Bullet points call attention to listed items.
Bold and italicized text creates emphasis and draws attention.
This content is viewed on social media. You need to be aware of how your content displays on various social media platforms. If your content is hard to read or doesn’t display well, people will move on.
3. Legal Content Must Connect with the Intended Audience
Unlike legal writing, legal content writing does not have a captive audience. The words on your law firm’s website need to be written so that it attracts the attention of the people who need your legal services. Knowing who these people are and what is important to them is critical to getting your message where it can do the most good for both you and your potential clients.
Determining how to get your content to connect with the people who most need to see it is part science and part art. Your content has to earn the trust of your audience and instill the confidence that your law firm is the best option for getting to the solution they seek.
You must explain what is involved in a particular legal problem and then demonstrate how you can solve it in a way that makes clients more likely to click your link and provide you with their contact information.
Your content needs to make readers feel good. People remember the things that make them feel. And people choose the things that make them feel good.
Legal content writers have to be able to connect with the right audience.
4. Legal Content Needs an Optimization Strategy
How will your potential clients find your content? Google search, of course. And how will Google decide to show your content to your potential clients? Google will take the search criteria and scan the web for the content that best matches the search inquiry.
Legal content needs to anticipate the words that people will use in their searches and strategically incorporate them into the content. Keywords and phrases must be included so that Google knows that your content is what the searcher is looking for.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of getting content to appear higher in the search results that are displayed to the searcher. The higher your content appears in the search results, the more likely your content will be seen and read – giving you the best opportunity to land new clients.
5. This Writing Requires a Fresh Perspective
If you want to stay ahead of your competition you have to keep a consistent flow of quality content in front of your potential clients. That requires a lot of new ideas about subjects you’ve written on many times.
You have to find new ways to present similar information so that your audience believes they are receiving additional value from your content every time they read a new piece.
After a while, you may run out of ideas and your content will lose impact.
Trying to write about the law in ways that are fresh and engaging can be a challenge even for those of us who specialize in legal content writing. But it’s all we do, we’ve had a lot of practice at it and we have fun doing it.
Would You Counsel a Client to DIY When You Know You Can Help?
There are many legal situations people find themselves in that do not require the services of an attorney. But the lack of knowledge and experience in dealing with the legal system puts most people at an extreme disadvantage when trying to resolve legal matters. The knowledge and expertise you offer helps people achieve a much better result faster than would be possible without using your services.
Producing good legal writing is an important part of your law firm’s marketing efforts and requires proficiency in digital marketing practices. Some attorneys are really into marketing and enjoy creating their own content. But there are many who don’t want to take on law firm marketing in addition to representing clients. So they leave content creation to those of us who specialize in legal content writing and marketing.
At Blue Seven Content, we aspire to write excellent legal content – every piece, every time. Our team creates engaging, original content that is thoroughly researched and optimized to get you results.
We prefer to establish long-term relationships with our law firm clients because it allows us to get to know our firms and the clients they serve and enables us to write compelling content that performs well. Blue Seven Content can create any of the following tailored to meet your firm’s specific needs.
Your clients want to work with you because you’re among the best at what you do. Don’t let bad legal writing keep you apart. To find out how Blue Seven can transform your law firm’s website, contact us here for a free strategy session or call us at 843-580-3158.
When it comes to legal content writing providers, phone calls or video chats with clients usually go one of two ways:
Everyone gets along and is on the same page. Maybe a few laughs are shared.
Attorneys or legal marketers at a law firm do not understand SEO. Things can get uncomfortable.
When I was a baby law firm content writer, I just assumed everyone understood why there were certain things worded the way they were. What I’ve learned is that lawyers have other things on their minds. They’re understandably busy, and most have very little time to focus on what goes onto their website. This can be a problem when they read the content and get frustrated by what’s there.
Here, I want to look at a few of the main areas of contention I’ve encountered when producing content for attorneys over the last few years.
(I’ve made slight changes to details here to obscure who I may or may not be talking about)
Geographic Focus For The Law Firm Practice Area Pages
I had a conversation with a personal injury attorney out of Myrtle Beach the other day. It got heated at first because they couldn’t understand why I was creating pages for the cities surrounding Myrtle Beach. In particular, this set of pages was for Conway, a crowded city very close to Myrtle (and the seat of the county).
Aside from the fact that we’d already agreed on a strategy to target the cities around Myrtle, I had to explain again why we were doing so. Let me give you a brief rundown of how the conversation started:
Attorney: “My office is in Myrtle Beach. My pages should focus on Myrtle.”
Me: “We have already made your main “pillar” pages focused on Myrtle. Now, we’re working to target other areas where clients could come from.”
Attorney: “The Myrtle Beach pages should be good enough.”
Me: “But you said you wanted to draw clients from all of the other major cities around Myrtle.”
Attorney: “Yes, I did say that. But why are you turning me into a ‘Conway personal injury lawyer.’”
You see what’s happening here. My plan, which I had discussed with this attorney, was to create satellite pages that closely mirrored the pillar pages but focused on the other major cities around Myrtle Beach. On some pages, it would be “Conway personal injury lawyer” or “Conway car accident attorney.” On other pages, it would be “North Myrtle Beach personal injury lawyer” or “North Myrtle Beach car accident attorney.”
I took some time to explain the search behavior of the people we were targeting – the prospective clients in these individual cities who are typing into Google or another search engine for help.
Yes, the algorithms are pretty smart, and individuals in those other cities may very well have landed on his page without these satellite pages, but that’s no guarantee. By having a multi-location strategy implemented, his bases would be covered.
We got past the issues, and I carried on with my strategy.
Problems With The Way Service Areas Are Labeled
“I didn’t go to law school to be an ‘Uber accident attorney,’” an attorney said to me condescendingly. “I handle personal injury law cases, and that’s all people need to know.”
Right, no kidding. I also didn’t just decide to make that your keyword for no reason. I understand that you handle “only personal injury law.” As an experienced legal content writer, I also know that is not how your clients are finding you. People are very specific when it comes to what they lookup on Google and other search engines. Instead of popping onto the internet to look up a personal injury lawyer near them, they’ll type in what actually happened:
San Francisco dog bite lawyer
San Francisco SFMTA attorney
San Francisco Uber accident lawyer
I’ve had more than one conversation with attorneys about this type of keyword usage. Another conversation I had was an attorney practically yelling, “There is no such thing as a New York City child custody attorney.”
My colleagues and I asked the attorney, “Do you want to take cases revolving around child custody out of New York City?”
When the attorney answered “yes,” we had to spend 20 minutes explaining that a “New York City family law attorney” keyword phrase just isn’t going to work for every single page.
Every overreaching practice area has smaller areas that need to be targeted. In the case mentioned above, we knew that Uber accidents were fairly prevalent and that not many other firms in the area had pages specifically geared towards Uber accidents. An “Uber accident attorney” page for this attorney would have been fantastic.
Alas, it wasn’t meant to be. This attorney wanted to remain only a “personal injury lawyer.” We were allowed to mention causes of injuries within the personal injury page, but we couldn’t get specific with his keywords on individual pages.
Will it work? Probably not, but we tried.
Working Through The Issues To Craft The Best Legal Content Writing
There has to be a good working relationship between legal content writers and the attorney or the law firm marketing coordinator. As creators of law firm content, the team at Blue Seven has a responsibility to make sure the attorney understands what we’re doing and why. We have to clearly communicate our goals as well as give a basic lesson on SEO and how the search algorithms work.
Our team can help law firms handle a range of content issues, including providing the best legal content writing for:
You can contact us for a free consultation by clicking here or calling us at 843-580-3158. When you contact Blue Seven, you will be connected directly with the company’s founders.
Written by Allen Watson – CEO and Co-Founder of Blue Seven Content
It is crucial to take time when developing a law firm practice area page strategy. At Blue Seven Content, regularly liken practice area pages for law firms as “product descriptions.” These pages let your prospective clients know what you do and whether or not you can help them with their problems or pain points.
We want to be very clear – practice area pages are not for other lawyers. These pages are for the everyday person in your geographic area. They have to be written in a way that clearly and concisely explains the topic and how you can help.
When you are developing a strategy for your law firm practice area pages, it can be overwhelming. Newer law firms need to get their website going quickly. The practice area page strategy for a new law firm is going to look different than the ongoing practice area page development for an established firm. Here, we want to briefly describe the process of developing law firm service area pages over time as your firm continues to grow and understand your prospective clients.
Why You Need More Practice Area Pages for Your Law Firm
When a law firm first starts out, there is not going to be an extensive layout of the website. You need something online quickly to be ready for your opening, so you may have a home page, basic practice area pages, an “about us” page, a blog area, and a “contact us” page.
When it comes to practice area pages for a new website, these pages may not be very expensive to begin with. It could be the case that you have a 500-to-550-word page for every major practice area that your law firm covers. For example, if you have a family law firm, your practice area pages may consist of a:
Family law overview page
Divorce page
Child custody page
Property division page
Alimony page
Child support page
Protective orders page
For a personal injury page, you’ll likely want to cover the basics right off the bat with a:
Personal injury overview page
Car accident page
Truck accident page
Slip and fall accident page
Premises liability page
Product liability page
However, a law firm website is not a one-and-done proposition. Your website has to grow organically. Google and other search engine algorithms are looking for continual, evergreen content. You can accomplish this by providing blogs for the website, updating existing practice area pages, and adding new practice area pages.
Over time, you’re going to want to do a few things when it comes to your law firm’s practice area pages:
You can turn your main practice area pages into longer-form pages.
You can add new legal practice area pages altogether.
Getting Granular on Your Practice Areas
Your basic practice area pages may be enough to get your law firm up and running and to get a few clients in the door, but this is not going to be enough in the long run. Pretty quickly, you need to start thinking about adding more content to your website. Your law firm practice area page strategy will be crucial here.
If you are an established law firm, you cannot let your law firm practice area pages become stagnant. If you can’t remember the last time you added any service area pages or when you updated your existing practice area pages, it is time to start thinking about some changes.
One way to add new law firm service page content is to get more granular on the topics that your firm focuses on. On the personal injury list above, we mentioned a basic car accident page for the firm. However, the “car accident” page can become your umbrella page to cover all types of vehicle accidents and vehicle accident topics.
We want you to think about the topics that you can add under car accidents:
Pedestrian accident page
Bicycle accident page
Motorcycle accident page
DUI accident page
Head-on collision page
Rear-end collision page
T-bone accident page
Rollover collision page
Construction accident page
…and more
Start out with broader practice area pages, then funnel them down to specific areas related to the overall topic.
This works for all types of law firms – family law, personal injury, criminal defense, estate law, IP and patent law firms, and more. For example, suppose you are a criminal defense attorney in San Francisco and have a “San Francisco DUI Defense Attorney” practice area page. You can use that as your umbrella page to cover various types of searches that people in your area may look up if they are facing a DUI charge:
DUI penalties
Driver’s license issues
Defenses to DUIs
Ignition interlock explanation
The DUI charge timeframe
…etc.
As you add more and more topics related to your particular practice areas, you are building authority for your law firm’s website. So long as your law firm service area pages are well written and contain good information optimized for SEO, you are building a database that the search engines will reward.
General Pages for Other Geographic Areas Around You
When most people start a law firm, they begin in one particular geographic area. Usually, this focuses around a city or perhaps a county. As such, your website content needs to reflect that geographic area. For SEO purposes, it is crucial for you to include geographic terms to your practice area information on your website.
For example, you are not going to perform very well in local searches if your entire practice area page for personal injury just says, “personal injury attorney.” Instead, you need to have your geographic area attached to some of these practice areas. If you are a Myrtle Beach law firm, you want the page to say “Myrtle Beach car accident attorney” in the correct areas of the page and in the headings (variations of this geo keyword phrase also need to be throughout the text).
But, let’s be honest – a Myrtle Beach car accident lawyer is going to want to target clients outside of just the city limits of Myrtle Beach. Over time, it would be wise to create practice area pages for other geographic areas. These new pages will, of course, have similar information, but they cannot be duplicated.
You have to pinpoint multiple geographic areas for your law firm to target, and they all need different pages.
For example, Myrtle Beach is located in Horry County. It would be wise for a personal injury law firm to create the same types of practice area pages that they have for Myrtle Beach for other areas. These will be separate pages, but they will also be original and new. Search engine algorithms will heavily penalize your law firm’s website if you simply copy and paste and swap out the geographic keyword phrases. You would be surprised at how many law firms do just that.
A Myrtle Beach law firm may have multiple geographic areas that they want to target:
North Myrtle Beach
Surfside Beach
Conway
Loris
Aynor
Murrells Inlet
Garden City
Socastee
Horry County
Georgetown County
Brunswick County
…and more
When you begin thinking about your particular geographic area, you need to think about your county and the surrounding counties. You also have to consider all of the cities around your location. Additionally, you need to consider the unincorporated areas that everybody knows about and has a name for that may not be an actual municipality. Many individuals in those areas are likely to type in the unincorporated name in a search engine to look for legal help. In that list above of geographic areas around Myrtle Beach, a few of those places are actually unincorporated areas that everybody knows and that have large enough populations where having separate pages for them could be a good idea.
Turn Your Original Pages Into Long-Form Practice Area Pages
We mentioned turning your original practice area pages into longer-form practice area pages. After you write your original pages, that does not mean that you will never return to them. On the contrary, there are various reasons why you should continuously return to your practice area pages to make changes.
First, if you have any data or statistics on your practice area pages, you are going to want to look at updating the data or stats every year or so. Your readers will be turned off if they come onto your page and see car accident stats from 2016. That just indicates that you are not paying attention.
More and more, we have discovered that Google’s algorithm is rewarding longer-form pages. These longer posts are likely to be seen as more authoritative, but that does not mean that you can just throw in more words. Your existing pages have to be examined, and you have to add content that flows with what is already there. In some cases, you may decide to scrap your original page altogether and rewrite a 1,500- or 2,000-word page (using the same URL). A 2,000-word vehicle accident page for your geographic area that is original, researched, and optimized is going to get more traction than a 500-to-550-word practice area page. You can use these longer pages as the backbone of your law firm’s website.
Blue Seven Content Can Help With Your Law Firm Practice Area Page Strategy
There are many ways that you can go about developing practice area pages for your law firm’s website. You could hire a huge legal marketing company to handle your entire website, but there are pitfalls to that approach. At Blue Seven Content, we are not going to try to handle every need for your website. Our goal is to provide well-written, researched, and optimized content for your pages.
Together, we can approach your law firm practice area page strategy in one of two ways:
We can write all of your law firm practice area pages for you. Blue Seven works with some of the best legal content writers in the industry, and we know how to put together a practice area page that will stand out above the rest for your firm and your geographic area.
We can help you write your law firm practice area pages yourself. Blue Seven has developed a practice area page writing guide that you can purchase for $149. For an additional $99, you get a one-hour phone consultation for a lead content writer to go over the guide and our writing process.
When you need the best law firm content for your web pages, you can contact us for a free consultation by clicking here or calling us at 843-580-3158. We are ready to help you with every aspect of developing a content strategy for your website, from practice area pages to law firm blogs, to law firm FAQ pages to law firm landing pages. We’re standing by.
Written by Allen Watson – CEO and Co-Founder of Blue Seven Content
If you’re taking the time to write a law firm blog post for your website, it’s because you want to provide information that people are looking for and bring them to your site. If people like the information you are providing and are in need of your services, you want them to retain you.
But how do you distinguish your legal content from all the other attorneys and law firms that are also creating content for their websites?
Legal content that is compelling grabs the interest of your readers and holds their attention. Readers cannot resist continuing to engage with the content because it is giving them what they want to know all the while convincing them that you are the right firm to solve their legal problem.
Writing a compelling legal blog post is that perfect combination of legal concept, art, and marketing. It’s taking the information that you want to convey and presenting it in a way that is attractive and persuasive to your readers.
So how do you go about creating a compelling legal blog post?
Let’s face it, if you don’t know what you want to say, your message is not going to be clear to your readers, and they won’t hesitate to look elsewhere. A little preparation can improve your blog content and actually make it easier to write.
Choose your topic – What do your potential clients want to know? What questions or concerns have often come up with past clients? Are there legal issues specific to your community? What about community events?
Do some research – Is this area of law changing? Has it been in the news lately? Can you share some little-known aspects?
Create an outline – Jotting down a working title and a few major points you want to cover helps to keep you organized and less likely to get off task.
Get Your Readers’ Attention
As your audience scrolls through the results of their look-up, what is going to get them to stop and click on your legal blog post? How will your content stand out so that it gets the click?
Know who your audience is – Who are you trying to reach? What is their specific problem? What would you say to them that you know would get their attention?
Write a great headline – Making your headline a question is a good way to get people to read it. Questions create curiosity, and that gets attention. Or use the old stand-bys, ‘how to’ or ‘what to do if.’ Your readers are looking for information that will help them make a decision.
Keep Your Readers’ Attention
Once you have a reader’s attention, you must act quickly to keep it, or with the swipe of a finger, away it goes. When your blog post opens and your readers’ eyes hit that first sentence or two, you have to hook them in to continue reading. You may want to let them know immediately what they can expect if they continue reading. What is the solution you are offering?
Create an introduction – Can you share a relatable story about your topic – personal or something in the news – to further connect with your reader before launching into the nuts and bolts of your post?
Make it easy to read – You want your content to convey your message to both those who skim and those who will read more in-depth. Don’t discount the importance of visual appeal with your content. Use sub-heads to break your content into several consumable chunks. Keep your paragraphs short. Keep your sentences short. Keep your grammar simple. Use bullet points.
What about SEO for a Law Firm Blog Post?
You can’t just ignore it. Even if you don’t really understand it and you’re not all that interested in learning about it.
Presumably, you are writing your blog post so people who have a problem you can solve will read it. How are they going to find you? They will do a Google search. And what does Google do? Google will do its best to match what the searcher types in with some content on the web. So you need to have some language in your post that is going to match the search criteria of the audience you are trying to reach.
The language a searcher uses becomes the keywords that you want your content to match. And the more precisely you match the search query, the more likely your content will be pulled from the herd and placed closer to the top of the search results list.
Law firms can’t ignore basic SEO when writing legal blog posts
So, think about it. What might somebody be looking for when you want them to find you? Are you generally a ‘personal injury attorney in Chicago’? Are you more specifically a ‘Schaumburg wrongful death lawyer’? People often search by location + specific problem they have + your profession.
If you’re writing about ‘wrongful death,’ use it a few times throughout your post so search engines know your post is a good fit for someone searching for information about wrongful death. Don’t be afraid to use similar words interchangeably – like ‘attorney’ and ‘lawyer.’
It’s really best not to try to be all things to all people in one blog post. Niche down your topic so it addresses a specific aspect of your practice and then incorporate the keywords that relate to that subject.
A word of caution about keywords:
Ultimately, it is great content, not keywords, that wins the day. Don’t forget to use keywords when you have an opportunity to do so. But don’t litter your content unnecessarily and distract from its value.
Use internal links
Inserting a phrase such as ‘Manhattan child support attorney’ into your content (assuming it’s relevant) gives you the perfect opportunity to link your law firm blog post to the area of practice page on your website that talks about that area of your practice.
The more your readers feel like you can help them, the better your chances are of having them contact you. You want to make it convenient and easy for them to get more information from you and not need to look elsewhere. Two or three internal links can take your readers to other places on your website that provide them with more information and a way to contact you.
At the End of Your Law Firm Blog Post, Let Your Readers Know What They Should do Next
It’s called a ‘call to action’ – CTA.
At the end of your post, you want to let your readers know what you would like them to do next. This is the final paragraph or two of your post. Write a few sentences to summarize the information in your post and why an attorney is the best way to solve the problem you discussed. Then write a few more sentences about why you or your law firm is the best choice among available choices.
Providing something of value to your readers without obligation can be a good way to get them to remember and contact you. Offering a free consultation is a good way to make contact with new clients. Ask readers to contact you to take advantage of your offer and provide a link and phone number for easy access.
Proofread and Edit Before You Publish
Clean, concise content that uses terms that are well understood by most people is going to attract more readers and keep them reading. Taking the time to read (out loud can be helpful) your content and remove what isn’t really necessary can make your writing more impactful. Hemingway Editor is a very useful free editing tool that points out issues in your writing that you may not be aware of and may want to change. Grammarly also has a free tool, and the newest version of Microsoft Word has a decent built-in editor.
A Final Tip About Law Firm Blog Posts…
There are only so many hours in any day. Yes, you want your legal content to be compelling. But you don’t have hours and hours to make it perfect. Give yourself a window of time to write your law firm post. Proof it. Edit it. Publish it. And let it go. The more you do, the better you’ll get. And if, after a while, you decide that content writing isn’t where you want to focus, Blue 7 Content has you covered.
At Blue 7 Content, we write compelling legal content. It’s all we do. We do it a lot. We do it well. Our content is always original, well researched, and search engine optimized. We write to order, or we can provide our own creative expertise. The content we create includes any of the following:
We know your time is valuable and you prefer to focus on what you do best. So let us help you be better by focusing on what we do best. You can contact us here to book a free strategy session and learn how Blue 7 Content can get you great results with great content. Call us at 843-580-3158.
Legal marketing is a hard industry to break into. There are so many legal marketing agencies out there that most new companies are knocked out of existence within a year or two. That’s why you see the usual names at the top of any list of “Top Legal Marketing Agencies.” That’s also why you see so many companies change their strategy, re-brand, then come back again with a new plan.
Blue Seven Content doesn’t want to be a big legal marketing firm. We don’t try to be, and we never will.
You see, we saw a problem in this industry and started Blue Seven Content to tackle the issue. We want to provide the best legal content for law firm’s websites. That’s it. Nothing else.
What the Big Dogs Focus On
If you go to one of the major legal marketing firm’s websites and look at the upper menus of the page, you’ll see what types of services they offer. Without many variations, you’re likely to find a mix of the following:
Law firm SEO
Attorney website design
Pay per click services
Facebook / social media marketing
Chatbots for attorneys
YouTube advertising for lawyers
Website video production for law firms
Google Ads services
Somewhere in the mix, you’ll probably see “legal content writing,” though there are some agencies that put this service in some hidden realm that’s difficult to find.
Legal content writing is regularly seen as an afterthought, while the major efforts go into the other services mentioned. We aren’t saying that those other things aren’t important, but they’re nearly useless without quality written content on the law firm’s website.
Why We Focus on Providing the Best Legal Content
At this point it sounds so cliché – “Content is King.”
However, that has always been the case. That hasn’t changed. Yes, now video and audio content is important, but the written content on a webpage is still of vital importance.
We focus on written content for law firms only. We do this because we don’t want to over-extend ourselves. If we started delving into other areas of legal marketing, we’d dilute our powers. That’s not something we’re willing to do. We found a need, and we built Blue Seven Content around that need.
And it’s worked. We’re so booked out with work that we’ve spent a significant portion of time in 2021 training new writers to handle the demand.
Law firms and legal marketing agencies recognize that we know what we’re doing. They know we can provide the content they need.
We work with the best legal content writers
The Irony – We Work With Big Legal Marketing Firms
We certainly aren’t hostile to the big dawgs in the legal marketing field. We’ve found that the leaders of these companies noticed the same problems about quality content that we did. Most of these agencies have in-house legal content writers, but not a bunch. When they get large orders from new clients, this can leave them in a bind. Most legal marketing agencies also have a select group of freelance writers they work with to handle the overflow, but that can be hit or miss.
Freelancers are just that – free to do whatever they want. They may be available. They may not. They may provide quality work. They may not.
That is where we come in.
Blue Seven Content is the “scale up” that these larger legal marketing firms need. They know that we only do content, and they know we do it well. Companies know that we have an extensive onboarding and writer training process, and our pricing is transparent.
Around half of Blue Seven’s clients are legal marketing firms. Most of those firms are well-known names that our readers would instantly recognize (we can’t put the names here for obvious NDA/privacy reasons). We help keep these companies from spending time and resources on hiring and training new writers.
The Best Legal Content Writers for Your Law Firm or Legal Marketing Agency
If you are in a position where you think you need legal content writers but aren’t sure where to start, we have an idea.
Call our team. Our initial meetings with clients are literally the most low-pressure conversations you’ll have. We just want to get to know you and your process. We’ll discuss what we can offer. Maybe we’ll work out a way to move forward. Some of the legal content writing that we provide includes:
You can contact us for a free consultation by clicking here or calling us at 843-580-3158. When you call, email, or fill out the contact form on the website, you will be put into direct contact with Blue Seven’s founders. We’re a small company, and we like to interact directly with clients.
Written by Allen Watson – CEO and Co-Founder of Blue Seven Content
When you go onto a legal website, you may find current law firm blog posts.
Maybe you won’t.
Do law firm blog posts even matter? Do blogs bring value to the law firm’s website, and by extension, to the law firm’s ability to bring in new clients.
The answer is yes; blog posts are absolutely an asset for law firms. There is no doubt about that. If your law firm is not making regular use of your blog section (or if you don’t have a blog section at all), you are doing a disservice to your website and your web presence overall.
At Blue Seven Content, we want to take some time to discuss why you need to audit your law firm’s blog posts and perhaps adjust your strategy moving forward. Our skilled legal content writers have extensive experience crafting the best law firm blog posts for firms throughout the US. We really get into the weeds when it comes to doing this correctly.
Does Your Law Firm Have a Lackluster Blog Section?
I clicked on a law firm’s website recently (as I do each day to see if there is anything Blue Seven could be doing better). When I looked at the blog section, I noticed that the last blog was dated nearly two years ago. Up until that point, the firm had been posting once a week.
What happened?
Well, my best guesses are:
The paralegal or legal assistant writing the blogs left the firm.
The firm dumped their legal marketing agency.
They never had a legal marketing or website strategy and decided that blog posts didn’t help their SEO or web presence.
So, I dug a little further and read through the blog posts that were there. I quickly realized that whoever had been writing the blog posts had absolutely no idea how to craft these pages. Here’s what I noticed:
There was no keyword usage that I could pick up on.
There were no headings. None at all.
There were walls of text. Long paragraphs, no bullet points.
It was tough to read. If someone happened to be looking at the metrics on how these blogs were doing, it would be no surprise that they decided they weren’t working. Of course they weren’t! They were horrible.
But, they were better than nothing. For the last two years or so, this law firm has not had any blogs at all. A quick glance at the rest of their site also revealed poorly written law firm landing pages and law firm practice area pages, but that’s a story for another day.
The worst part of this story is that this is not a rare occurrence. So many law firms neglect blog posts or even their entire website.
Why do You Need a Law Firm Blog Strategy?
At Blue Seven Content, we have written at length about how important blog posts are for a law firm’s website. We’ve discussed how law firm blogs:
Provide “evergreen” content for a website, which is a plus for search engine algorithms
Help the firm provide information to prospective clients that does not otherwise fit on practice area pages
Let firms go more in-depth on topics that are touched on elsewhere on the website
Relate current national, state, or local events back to the firm’s service areas
Can discuss attorney or law firm achievements
Take Time to Develop a Law Firm Blog Post Strategy
As easy as it may seem to “pop out a blog post” for a law firm’s website, that simply won’t happen unless the firm has a blog strategy in place. There needs to be a point person who can plan regular blog topics and make sure they get written. If a law firm fails to implement a blog post strategy, what they’ll end up with is:
An occasional blog post making it to the website
Poorly written or badly organized blogs
No benefit to SEO or website authority
Turn to the Best Legal Writers for Legal Blog Posts
At Blue Seven Content, we are excellent at providing law firm blog posts that are ready to be posted right to a law firm’s website. We tailor blogs to each firm and their location(s).
We take the time to ensure that we find verifiable and legitimate data and statistics to include in the blog posts we write for law firms.
If you are ready to get a blog strategy implemented for your law firm, we are standing by to help. You can contact us for a free consultation by clicking here or calling us at 843-580-3158. I am personally ready to take your call. I’ll review your current law firm blogs and discuss what we can do to get rolling in the right direction.
Written by Allen Watson – CEO and Co-Founder of Blue Seven Content
Law firm marketing companies love to sell you on their website interactions and cool themes. They are partially right. People prefer a website that is user-friendly. But that cannot be your only focus. Focusing on just the website’s appearance is like seeing an online menu without details of the dish. You can click on it, but do you trust what you are ordering? Would a law firm content writing strategy help?
Your readers want and need to understand what and how you are serving your best legal dishes. Focusing on the writing content of your website for legal content on your landing pages and blogs is just as important as your user-friendly browser. At Blue Seven Content, we focus on the readability of your website. We focus on cracking a law firm content writing strategy that is specific to your area and attractive to viewers. Our legal content writers know how to do this, and they do it well.
How We Choose Our Law Firm Content Writers
Analytics can show you who is clicking on your website and what posts are gaining traction. Some analytics can show the keywords that people are typing into search engines to get to your posts. Our approach to writing is simple, we tackle the common keywords that people search and optimize their placement in the text.
We hand pick writers with legal backgrounds and train them to write efficiently and effectively. Our writers are like the all-star team in sports. We find the heavy hitters with experience or the rookies who are looking to make a name for themselves.
We thrive on self-starters who constantly research what they are writing instead of trying to make something up. In other words, our writers value your law firm and website. They want the content to stir a desire within the reader because more business for you means more business for us.
How We Make Legal Writing Content Sound Like Home
Writing legal content is not rocket science, but it does take attention to detail and willingness to research. Our initial consultation with clients starts with getting a better understanding of their desired geographic location. We want readers to click on their hometown attorney’s site and feel like they are at home.
Other ways we help your reader become future income:
breaking down material into small paragraphs for quick scanning
straight forward language to clearly deliver a message
staying on topic without distracting readers with random facts
bullet points to maintain reader attention on a long post
headers that summarize the section
we do not sound like a sales pitch
A Law Firm Content Strategy Makes Content Easier to Read
The legal world is complex, overwhelming, and expensive. Like a restaurant, the content of your website must reflect good reasons for clients to spend money on you. If your site is underdeveloped because your pages are not filled with content, you are losing people’s confidence that you can deliver on your promise to win a case.
It may sound like a stretch, but the writing on your site is a client’s first introduction to the ethos of your firm. To use an analogy when you enter a restaurant there are three kinds of menus:
the first menu contains way too many items, overcrowded with words, lacking pictures, and overwhelms the reader
the second menu contains little description, no pictures, and foreign words without context
the third menu hits the right spot between descriptions, pictures, and context for items that may be more complex for some readers
How do you want your law firm website to read? If you said third, then we are in business. Blue Seven Content strives to curate just the right menu for you and your clients. We create easily digestible pieces of information for you readers to consume to push their desire to choose you amongst the array of other firms.
Contact the Best Legal Content Writers Today
Take a chance with us and we can give honest insight into how your page is performing on a reader level. We specialize in helping law firms with the following:
You can contact us for a free consultation by clicking here or calling us at 843-580-3158. Our team is standing by to talk to you about the steps necessary for providing the best legal content for your law firm.
Written by Victoria Lozano – Consultant and Co-Founder of Blue Seven Content
At Blue Seven Content, when we discuss why you need the best legal content writers for your law firm’s website, there is an analogy that one of our founders likes to use (paraphrasing here):
“You know how these big blockbuster movies look fantastic? They have beautiful scenery and amazing effects. Explosions here, a starship there. But have you ever listened to the dialogue? It’s usually lacking.”
Victoria Lozano
That’s what it’s like going onto some law firm websites. They look fantastic. There are graphics and catchy colors. It’s an entire production, and you can tell that someone spent some money.
Then you start reading the content.
Law Firm Content is Sometimes All Hype and no Substance
Going to a movie theater to see a big production film that lacks any substance is far too common. Unfortunately, so is going to a law firm’s website and reading content that needs serious work. Off the top of our head, some of the main problems that can usually be spotted right away when a law firm doesn’t use good legal content writers (or tries to write the content themselves) include the following:
No concept of the audience
Using language far too complicated for the reader
No keywords
No geo focus
No headings
Long paragraphs that never end
No bullet points
No internal or external links
No CTA
But hey, at least the site looks good, right?
Why Law Firms AND Legal Marketing Agencies Need to Change Their Mindset
Historically, law firms and legal content marketing agencies have had slim budgets when it comes to paying for the written legal content on the website. We have even talked to some attorneys who believe that some well-placed keywords will be sufficient on their law firm practice area pages and law firm blogs.
They are completely missing the boat.
We’re willing to bet that there is no attorney or legal marketing director out there who has not heard the phrase “Content is King.”
At what point did people stop believing this?
Slowly, law firms and legal marketing agencies are coming back around to the idea that they’re going to have to fork over a little bit more money in order to get quality content onto their website. All the splash and pizazz on a website is meaningless unless there is well-written content that meets the needs of the firm.
Both law firms and legal marketing agencies need to seek out the best attorney content writers to help accomplish the ultimate goal – get readers to the page by ranking high on search results, keeping potential clients on the page with the content, and then converting the readers to actual clients.
Blue Seven Content has the Best Legal Content Writers for Your Needs
We previously discussed our process for finding and training the best attorney content writers. When you are looking for a legal content writer for your law firm or legal marketing agency, you have to step outside of the idea that all writers are created equal. That is simply not the truth.
You cannot have somebody pounding out “10 Ten Cartoon Characters of the 80s” articles while simultaneously creating your law firm pages explaining subrogation and medical liens. Trust us, there is a time and place for writers who can effectively tell us about cartoons (we’ll read those articles, too); but a law firm’s website is serious business.
At Blue Seven Content, we understand this. We take content writing for law firms and legal marketing agencies very seriously. That is why we have such an extensive onboarding process with new writers.
We search out writers who have advanced degrees, conduct interviews with them, and then provide step-by-step training manuals for law firm blog posts and law firm practice area pages. We then have training sessions with every new writer to go over the ins and outs of the legal writing process. Finally, all new writers submit samples which are then critiqued by experienced legal writers.
And we don’t stop there.
Our writers are always learning new things, and Blue Seven hosts monthly legal content writer meetings so we can all get together to make adjustments and generally encourage one another.
Where to Find the Best Attorney Content Writers
If you are a law firm or an attorney looking to take the next steps to enhance your written content, we are standing by to help you. Even if you are already working with a legal marketing agency, we can provide supplemental content that can be given to the agency and placed onto your page (trust us, you are paying for their services, so they will use the content if you tell them to).
We also want to let legal marketing agencies know that it is okay if you need some assistance. We can confidently say that our onboarding process is more extensive than most legal marketing firms when it comes to writers. So, please take advantage of that and let us provide services on your behalf. Our team provides:
You can contact us for a free consultation by clicking here or calling us at 843-580-3158. When you call, email, or fill out the contact form on the website, you will be put into direct contact with Blue Seven’s founder.
Written by Allen Watson – CEO and Co-Founder of Blue Seven Content
Legal content writer training isn’t easy. At Blue Seven Content, we began as a group of dedicated writers dedicated solely to producing the best written content for law firms and legal marketing agencies. We focus on written content because we want to be the best at this particular aspect of law firm marketing. We don’t create websites. We aren’t here to add splashy pizazz to your page. We create excellent law firm landing pages, law firm practice area pages, law firm blog posts, and law firm FAQ pages that will keep readers on the page and convert them to clients. We do this thanks to our legal content writers.
We get a lot of questions about why people should use our writers instead of someone from another agency or a freelancer. You may be able to find a good writer elsewhere. However, we want to take a minute and explain how we get our writers and the training process we have at Blue Seven. We think know that our process for writers sets us apart from other agencies because we’ve worked with many writers who come to us from other agencies.
It Starts With Finding Qualified Legal Content Writers
The process of creating enhanced law firm content begins with us actually finding qualified writers. This is more difficult than it sounds.
The reality is that the bar to entry is low for content writing. Many people consider themselves writers just because they can put together some coherent sentences and tap on a keyboard. However, law firm content writing is deeper than that. Writing is tough; putting together sentences, paragraphs, and pages that engage readers takes skill.
Then there’s the research.
We’ve met plenty of talented writers who don’t know much about research. One area that we pride ourselves on is the fact that our writers incorporate relevant data and statistics on each page they create, and we geo-focus it.
We’re not only looking for great writers – we’re also looking for skilled researchers.
We have strict requirements when it comes to picking our writers. At a minimum, every writer at Blue Seven Content has a bachelor’s degree (many have graduate degrees) and some sort of background in research. We screen resumes, and we have an interview with all potential candidates for our content writing positions. These are video meetings – we really value face-to-face interaction, even though our writers are spread throughout the US.
We Provide Thorough Training for Legal Content Writers
We’re perfectly okay with writers who don’t have experience writing for law firms (though many of our new hires do). We don’t mind because we know how to train writers.
Side story – when founders Allen and Victoria started in the legal writing arena, they were given a word count and keywords and told to go make something work. That was rough because they had no idea what they were doing. They learned how to make great content for law firms, but they don’t want the legal content writers at Blue Seven to be put into a “sink or swim” survival situation.
Blue Seven Content has extensive writing guides that walk new writers through the entire practice area page or blog process. We teach writers why keywords matter. We teach them how to format a page. We show writers how shorter sentences, shorter paragraphs, and bullets make a page great for the reader.
We teach legal researching skills and discuss the importance of citing work. We show them how to hyperlink with anchor text. We leave no stone unturned when preparing our writers.
After our writer training (which we pay for), we assign them their first sample pages (which we also pay for). After they return the samples, we go through the page with them and show them what looks good and where there could be improvement. Then they get another sample to do. Then another.
By the time a Blue Seven writer tackles a client order, they know what they’re doing.
We Give Legal Content Writers a Community
We’ve not yet seen a single legal marketing agency that provides writers with an actual writing community. That’s what we’re building at Blue Seven. First, we have a Slack channel that all of our writers use to communicate with one another and the company founders. Someone is always there to answer questions. Nobody is alone when they are working on a page, which is important. New writers will always have access to a seasoned legal writer who can answer any questions they may have.
We also host monthly writer meetings (which we pay for) where we all get together on a video call. These meetings are used to handle a range of issues, including research tips, reviewing already written pages, and handling any new methods we may be implementing.
There’s never a void. We want every writer at Blue Seven to feel valued and appreciated.
Oh – and we pay weekly. Founders Allen and Victoria know what it’s like not to be paid or having to chase down clients for payment. We don’t want our writers ever to have to put up with that.
Our Work Has Been Effective
We’ve partnered with legal marketing firms and law firms throughout the US. Many of our clients are major players in the field. We’re proud of the work our legal content writers create, and our clients have been very pleased with our work. Not once have we had to issue a refund.
This success starts and ends with our writers. That’s why we create such strict requirements for writers. We have a team that can create enhanced law firm content, including the following:
If you are a law firm or marketing agency and you want the best writers in the field, we’re here to help. You can contact us for a free consultation by clicking here or calling us at 843-580-3158. We’re ready to talk to you today. When you contact us, you will speak directly to our company’s founders about the next steps moving forward.
Written by Allen Watson – CEO and Co-Founder of Blue Seven Content
