• How to Reduce Your Bounce Rate

    Online marketers are obsessed about search engine optimisation. There’s nothing wrong with that, after all they wouldn’t get anywhere without keywords, backlinks and a decent website structure. But by spending every waking hour worrying about them you could be missing the bigger picture. Google analytics is vital if you want to know what’s going on […]

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  • SEO Copywriting–It’s All About Your Reader

      On the one hand you have your reader, on the other the search engine spiders. So who do you concentrate on? All too often, the copy on most websites seems to place the importance on the spiders—big mistake. Their copy is crammed with their keywords because the businesses are fixated on getting to the […]

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  • Woeful Websites

    Most businesses realise that the internet is the place to be these days. It is a vast market place scoured by millions of internet users every day. But that doesn’t mean you should dash out and throw any old website together. If you want a website it should for one reason only – to sell. […]

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  • Websites That Convert – What’s Their Secret?

      How is your website doing? Does it get a lot of traffic? If so, is that reflected in your conversion rate? What I’m asking is, if your site gets thousands of hits a week is that converting into sales? As a copywriter I come across lots of websites. Some look good, have a decent […]

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  • What Pages Should My Website Have? Part 2

      In my last post we looked at the Home Page and About Us page. Now it’s the turn of the Products/Service page and FAQs. Products and services 1. A company selling products Quite often when you look at a website, the product pages are full of images showing you what you can buy with […]

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  • What Pages Should My Website Have? Part 1

      When creating your website you have to consider several things – your design, its functionality, your message etc. Your unique selling point and the products and services you offer are going to be very individual. But one thing that is fairly standard is the important basic range of website pages. Every page will have […]

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  • Copywriting Isn’t Fiction – Fact

    Many people believe that writing is just writing. It doesn’t matter what it’s for, it is basically the same animal. It can range from fiction, sales writing, promotional writing, poetry… But if you treat every form the same you’ll come unstuck. Your writing style must be adjusted according to its format and desired effect. For […]

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  • Copywriting to Enhance Your Website

    You’ve heard the saying “don’t judge a book by its cover”, well I hate to say it but people do. Not only that, but they’ll also judge you and your company by your written content whether in emails, on your website, blog, articles or brochures. Going back to your school days, wasn’t it always the […]

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  • Website Copywriting 101

      As a website copywriter I know how difficult it can be to create text that is appealing, interesting and that converts readers into customers. So if you insist on going it alone and writing your own web copy, I can sympathise with you. But sadly, when companies do write their own copy they start […]

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  • Why Me and Website Copy Doesn’t Mix

    Before you all start scrolling down to add a comment telling me the title of this post is grammatically incorrect – I know, it’s meant to be. I want to talk about a common mistake in website copywriting, but first a short illustration. It is the school summer holidays so I am trying to juggle […]

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