Monday 14 February 2011

Website content writing, SEO tips & Larkrise to Candleford

Whoever said running your own small business was easy?! My whole Sunday evening was taken up by rewriting a 'few' pages on my website to improve its search Engine Optimisation (SEO).
 One of the most important things I've learnt is that SEO isn't just about optimising your pages and then sitting back to reap the rewards - Nope, to truly work well you've got to keep refining and rehashing those all important keywords and links.
 However, one of the truly brilliant rules of SEO is given by equally brilliant Peter Kent: Make your site useful...
 Sounds deceptively simple doesn't it - the trick is to ensure that you have fresh content that 1) keeps people coming back again and again and 2) encourages them to share your site elsewhere.
 The downside is that you might just miss the opening 10 mins of Larkrise to Candleford as you're so absorbed in updating your website... Just goes to show what a Rock 'n' roll lifestyle us copywriters lead... *ahem*

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Tuesday 1 February 2011

Nigel Woollsey - Freelance Writer & Copywriter: Top tips for writing web site content and web copy

Nigel Woollsey - Freelance Writer & Copywriter: Top tips for writing web site content and web copy

Top tips for writing web site content and web copy

One of the classic mistakes that people make when writing content for their own website is to treat it like an ordinary, written document.
Often a copywriter or editor will be presented with a body of text which is way too long and bloated out with rambling content.
If you're writing for the internet - be it for your own website, a blog or an online article the most important rule is: Keep it short.

Text intended to be published online is not like writing material for printed use. You've got be clear, concise and get your point across with a minimum of preamble. My personal limit when writing content for business websites is a maximum of just 350 words - ideally, around 200 is much better for snappy, focused material.

To find out the other ways of improving your webcopy or online content visit my website and take a peek at my top tips for internet writing: http://www.nigelwoollsey.co.uk/?p=website.content.writing.in.norfolk