Writing Sales Copy for the Web

Writing effective sales copy requires you to have an out-of-body experience.  You have to get out of your own world and put yourself in the place of your customer.  Many companies are so concerned with what they want to say about their products that they never consider what their customers want to hear.  Here are [...]

The Last Mile in Copy Writing—Search Engine Optimization’s Three Critical Steps

A shocking number of companies invest in writing great copy for their Web sites, but miss the very basics of search engine optimization. Most sites totally neglect meta-data—the words and phrases used by search engines—in preparing Web copy. If no one can find your site, no one will read your copy, no matter how good it is. You can write great copy, rich in keywords and formatted to rank highly in search engines, but if you neglect your meta-data, and you are trying to run a marathon with your feet tied together.