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How to Get More High-Quality Website Traffic — Today

More Traffic Isn’t Always Better

Seeing more and more website visitors every month is a great feeling, but what if your phones still aren’t ringing? If we’re all being honest, website traffic is a classic example of a vanity metric — it looks great, but it tends to only be loosely associated with the real results most law firms and other businesses are after: conversions such as phone calls, form fills, chats, and emails in which a potential client is making contact. 

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Why Write? The Relevance of Good Writing in the Internet Age.

As a college professor who regularly teaches (and who prefers to teach) foundational writing courses that every student is required to take, I’m faced with a lot of hostility—usually on the first day of class when I ask each student to explain why he or she is taking my class. While about half of them say, “to get an A” (that’s a criticism of our society for another day), I’m also met with my fair share of shrugs and plenty of students who simply say “because I have to.” Naturally, there are always a few Goody Two-Shoes who try to parade their virtue by saying, “to learn more about writing.” (In a writing class? You don’t say!)

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