• How to easily optimise your website in 8 steps

      In this article, I’ll walk you through how to optimise your website. I am a copywriter, not a coder; therefore, I can’t help you with how your site is built for optimisation – I’ll leave that to your web guru. One of the most important things to remember is that optimising your website copy […]

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  • SEO Best Practice:How to Boost Your Website’s Google Ranking

    SEO best practice   SEO isn’t just about keywords. It involves several disciplines that work together. So, if you want your SEO strategy to be effective, you must tick all the boxes. There are several SEO ranking factors, but for the purpose of this blog, we’ll look at nine areas that create the essential groundwork […]

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  • META Description and Why You Should Bother with It

    META description The META description exists to describe your page. It’s the bit that comes up underneath the URL in the search results. You only get a maximum of 160 characters, so it’s essential to make sure you advertise your web page (whether it be a page on your website or a blog) to content […]

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  • How to Be a Boss at Optimising Your Web Copy

    I want to make one thing clear from the start: optimising your website copy for the search engines isn’t the be-all and end-all of online marketing.  While it is essential to make your website as visible as possible, it’s more important to create high-quality content that people will want to read.  If you fill your […]

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  • A Quick Eight-step Guide to Help You Optimise Your Web Copy

    [This article was first published in 2010. It’s been updated and adapted to help you achieve online greatness in 2020 and beyond,] Search engine optimisation never stands still. To remain in the game, you have to keep an eye out for the latest tips and ‘how tos’.  Some things never change, such as identifying your keywords, […]

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  • SEO Copywriting Has Changed Not Died

    For many years now, businesses have turned to their trusted copywriterto create their website copy.  Why? Because they knew that the way their content was written would have an effect on their search rankings, in other words, they needed SEO copywriting.  Now for me ‘traditional’ (i.e. bad) SEO copywriting is no more, especially in light of Google’s […]

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  • What SEO Copywriting Is Not

      Were you hoping to read a post about how to do SEO copywriting well? Prepare to be disappointed. Mind you, if you’re desperate to know about that, you can read about it in my earlier post: The Absolute Truth About SEO Copywriting. All I want to do here is create a short post that […]

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  • What SEO Keywords Should I Use?

      Yes! SEO keywords are still relevant (but anyone who mentions keyword density should be ignored). They tend to be viewed in one of two ways: with clarity of mind, or seen as a murky pool of uncertainty. There are some businesses where it’s obvious what they should be targeting (i.e. because it’s the product […]

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  • 16 SEO Myths You Should Ignore Completely

      It’s not very often I accept guest contributions for this blog, but something about this infographic outlining SEO myths that should be ignored caught my eye. SEO is something that’s always talked about (often the advice is incorrect). It’s not dead; it’s not a one-off activity and, although I hate to say it, even my […]

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  • SEO Copywriting is NOT Bad Copy

      Here’s a news flash for you, SEO copywriting is not bad copy. Granted, there is a lot of gobbledygook out there pretending to be high-quality content, but it’s usually written by someone who has no idea what they are doing. It’s entirely their fault; they foolishly believe the BS that’s still floating around on […]

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