Tag: web copy

The first time you visit a website, within 3-seconds, you’ll form an opinion. Is it professional? Is it trustworthy? What about the quality of the images or is it cluttered? Occasionally, this conclusion will be changed as you revisit the website in the future. But most of the time, this first impression is set in…

Enlisting the help of a website copywriter is probably the first step for most — one who fully understands what makes web copy work, how it differs from ‘ordinary’ copy and why it needs its own specialised approach. We see this mistake time and again. Website owners writing their own copy just because they can.…

Many business owners who operate an eCommerce website, utilise product information from the manufacturer’s websites. That’s problem number one. The second problem is that the description of their products is very thin, in many cases just a few sentences. So eCommerce sites have lots of products, sometimes hundreds and thousands, but very little content and…

Over the past few years, content siloing has become an increasingly important component of good search engine optimisation (SEO). Basically, this is a technique that organises your website around keyword relevant content and themes. The foundation of this technique is creating a thematic organisation within your website, one that helps search engines decide on the…

Having a well-designed website is critical to an effective marketing strategy – but that isn’t all – you need to populate your website with content. And that is where many businesses get into trouble. Business owners either have no time to write their own content or are extremely unenthusiastic about it. Another problem is search…

In the early days of the internet there was hardly any need to scroll down a webpage. This was because the websites of the 1990’s and early 2000’s were largely designed with just about all relevant content above the ‘fold’ ie. the imaginary line that indicated the bottom of a screen. But all that has…