I’ve written here and here about my thoughts on blogging and what its about.  I’m still a bit shocked when I come across posts like this one which talks about getting rejected as a guest blogger.  Rejected?  As a guest blogger?  Are there lots of people begging to write for other people’s blogs?  Aren’t blogs FREE?  I mean, can’t you just start your own and write whatever the hell you want?  I am also shocked at the people who want to tell you what you should write in your blog, what you should say, when you should tweet about it and how to make your facebook fan page more appealing.  Excuse moi?  My facebook fan page?  Like I’m Justin Bieber?

There are rules on how many people you should follow on twitter (if you follow more than follow you, you are a loser). There are people who won’t follow you even if they will respond to what you write because, um, I don’t know why.  The kids who were cool in school soon learn that they don’t own it anymore.  Punks and geeks reign supreme.

There are other bloggers on the world wide computer who will let you  know, in no uncertain terms, if they think your stuff sucks, you are stupid or lame or just an idiot for even putting it out there.  There are those who write only about their feelings or their latest boyfriend saga.  There are blogs that have fabulous legal analysis (or so I’ve heard, they are usually above my head so I don’t actually read them)  There are others devoted to everything you want to know about the blogger’s kids.  (I had a friend once say that the only thing more boring than hearing people talk about their kids are people talking about their pets or their dreams).

The people who say they write only to write may be telling the truth.  Hell, I truly believe I am one of those people.  But, when you get to the point where it looks like more than ten people might be reading this (and, for all I know, it’s my original six readers checking back 10 times a day to see if I’ve written anything new) I suddenly wonder what to do with all of this power (insert scary cackle here).  I am just starting up my practice again and I want people to know that I’m here.  Able to take on cases, that I’ve done lots of stuff in the past and feel comfortable taking on stuff in the future.  See, but there I should have said “I am a female criminal defense attorney in Montogmery County, Maryland who has experience trying murder, rape, drug and gun cases.  I am also able to handle a Montgomery County, Maryland DUI or  Montgomery County Assault charge”

But I don’t want to!  Because it boring.  And so painfully obvious as to what I’d be doing.  But. . .  but. .

If you type in “Female Criminal Defense Attorney Maryland ” the first non paid site you get to is Jamison Koehler’s despite the fact that I am the female criminal defense attorney in Maryland that he mentions in his post.  He, last I knew, was not female and he’s not licensed to practice in Maryland yet.  The search doesn’t help him any in getting clients for himself, it only gets people to go to his and then link back to notguilty, which doesn’t get you very far if you are looking to hire a female criminal defense attorney in Maryland.

I need that link.  I need to be able to type in Female Criminal Defense Attorney and have it come up with my yet to be launched website.  How do I do that while still being true to the original notguilty?  How do I do that without becoming just another pretty face during a google search?  This blog has no link to my as yet unlaunched website, it has no way of letting you know that I am a criminal defense attorney licensed to practice in Maryland with offices in Takoma Park click here for more information!  In fact, if you do go to my still sucky homemade website http://www.mzslaw.com/ there is no mention of notguiltynoway since I don’t even know if I want potential clients to read this. 

But I paid a web guy.  I showed him the websites that come up high on google searches and said “I want this”.  I don’t know how it will play out at the end of the day, but this world has changed drastically while I was hiding out.  Maybe my six readers (who have now checked this six times today) will chime in and let me know what they think.  And, if any of you six ask to guestblog, I will never reject you.