In blogging primarily for SEO purposes, is it better to publish a dull article, or nothing at all?

There are to many cases you may discuss in your articles of your legal practise. I am sure if you take each sections of them and discus it in details. For example In British Laws there are around 118 sections of partnership laws, if you take each section and and quote the precedents as well you will definitely get tooo much content to get on to position in SEO :)I am sure you are considering Stopping words factors while inclusing your main keywords in the content and have much density to get max out of it.

And @ airport, the main pr of actual page count as well. For that you should have engaging and unique content. As if visitors comes and do comments then the that content PR will be increase and you will get ultimate impact on the main Website you are promoting.

Airport Parking nailed it. Of course you want to write for the reader instead of the spider (google crawler), but who really does that anyways... lol.

It is extremely unlikely that you would ever create any content purely for SEO unless you're an SEO trying to showcase your talents. If your optimisation is good and you hit the top then it will result in visitors. If the content you produce is crap then those visitors won't engage and your mass of traffic will be useless.

Google doesn't know if the content is engaging, so for gaining higher search engine positions from giving content to the web and Google rewarding you, then it is fine not to be too engaging. However, you probably would like to get your content on decent websites where lots of people would read it. This is when engaging content is required, if you know or want your content to be posted on high traffic sites which will drive some visitors to your website, then engaging, snappy, short and useful is what you want.As you say with Law, it’s not the most easy of subjects to digest.

Maybe try writing things that could help the general public, not focusing on specifics so much? For example;, is it illegal to.... should I intervene if I see X happening...

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.