Things to Consider
Duplicate Content
Submitting Legal Articles on HG.org

Tips for Creating an Effective Article

Research Your Competition

After you choose your topic, but before beginning your article, visit the search engines. See what else is presented on the internet regarding your subject matter. This will help you accomplish the following:

• Avoid creating duplicate content;
• Identify areas of your chosen subject matter which may be neglected by others and therefore, may be a good focal point for your article; and 
• Review what’s effective and successful for other writers and integrate some of these techniques into your writing.

Be Original

Don’t write about a topic that’s been “done to death.” And if it is a popular area that’s been tackled by many others, look for a new spin on your chosen subject. Create unique, original content. Use your background and experience to present your topic in a new light, and support your facts with your legal analysis.

Consider Your Audience

Remember who you are writing for. Don’t get lost in legal jargon. Make your points clearly and concisely. Provide information that is helpful to your reader and reflects your experience and knowledge. In this way, you subtly demonstrate how you can help potential clients with related legal matters, without making a sales pitch.

Fact Check! Proofread!

Factual errors, typos, spelling errors, grammatical errors and the like can detrimentally affect the reader’s perception of your article, and of you and your professionalism. You want readers to trust the information you present and perceive you as an expert who is well versed in the chosen topic and, by extension, in your areas of practice. So use due diligence when proofreading your article before submitting it.

Duplicate Content

Do not publish the same article on multiple websites as it against the guidelines of some search engines (i.e. Google) and could affect your article detrimentally.

HG.org provides legal information to visitors worldwide. When you submit an article to our site, it benefits both your law firm and HG.org to create unique content that has not been published elsewhere.When writing your article, please do not copy/paste an article already submitted elsewhere; instead, we invite you to post original content. We reserve the right to remove any duplicate content from our site.


HG.org screens all listing applicants for validity and reserves the right to refuse to post your listing or to remove your listing, at our discretion, if you do not adhere to our editorial guidelines, or should we determine your law practice is not legitimate or misrepresents its business, services, etc. in any manner. By submitting a listing and articles to HG.org you confirm that you are authorizing HG.org to publish your information and that you own the copyright of the text, logos and pictures posted on HG.org and on your own website.