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Copywritng Role in Online Business

It is amazing how internet influence us in so many ways. It gives us an opportunity to communicate people from long distance by means of emails and chats, do the research on using search engines, giving us updates from gossips to news, a great source of entertainment and many others.

Because of these obviously resourceful benefits, the world of business enters its world. Those who are business oriented think that, engaging in the internet could bring changes in many aspects of conducting business practices, and this includes web copywriting.

But what is copy writing? It is the process of promoting the business, person/persons, ideas or the opinions through writing. Its main purpose is actually to convince the reader to react.

There are so many businesses find different ways and ideas on how to promote online about they offer. Advertising what your product to the whole world through internet is very effective. Which means that a business man/woman can have only one office but able to accommodate to his/her client from the different parts of the world!

But how can they do it? Well, hire personnel who can facilitate a dynamic and conductive environment for prospects and clients. Web copywriters do all the work in advertising to what the business is offering. They frequently start by knowing what product they have to offer, also identifying the market, and finding the most effective way to impart to the reader/prospect what benefits they can get out of the product.

Remember that the website should be appealing. Consider a website can easily catch an attention. Knowing that most people surfing the net are encouraged to explore more on your site if their attention is caught, and if your site is not boring or dull. A number of tests should be conducted before you can actually put it into action. If your site is unable to catch people's attention, your business will have a possibility to fail too.

That is the reason why careful attention must be given to web copywriting. It is the essence or core of your business promotion and goes true to any business venture on the internet. The design of your website depends on your business' nature and personal preference. You must also have a logo of your company posted on your site, you can also add multimedia features, optimized search engines, and create customer interface.

But don’t rely on web copywriting alone to achieve the success of your business. This is just one effective option to promote your business. Above all, different aspects must be considered to attain the success you want for your business in the world of internet.

Emotions in Copywriting

Copywriting must come along with the mix of emotions. If you want a response from others, adding emotional reaction toy your copy is one of the best things to do, whether you are looking for a lead or a sale. You may say, ok, so this is business but in every way, human beings are your main focus and they buy on emotions.

But how can you trigger emotions in your copy? So here are the ways:

1. Tell a story. A good story captures attention, and draws the reader in. Right away, his emotions are stirred, and he cares about the outcome. Meanwhile, a lesson or sales message can be conveyed without resistance. And that message will be remembered much longer, as good stories are hard to forget.

2. Paint a picture. Be vivid in your descriptions. Let the prospect see himself enjoying life after your product or service has solved his problem.

3. Stimulate all five senses. By merely describing the sight, smell, feel, sound and taste of something, you make it real to your prospect. You mentally transport her to where you are – or transport your product to her. She'll be aware, engaged – and emotionally involved with what you're telling her.

4. Promise benefits. Show her what you're going to do for her. Tell her how her life will be better, how time will be saved – and what she'll do with that time – by using your product. Let her know What's In It For Me.

5. Use power words. Give your copy punch and excitement by using action words and vivid descriptors. Avoid all forms of the verb "to be." Show your product or service in action, and it will impact her heart.

6. Use a friendly tone of voice. Speak directly to your prospect, and sound like you're talking to a friend. Read your copy aloud and see if it passes the "barstool test." If it sounds like you're talking to the person on the barstool beside you, it's good. If any line or sentence makes you stumble, rewrite it.

7. Be honest. Banish all hype and half truths. Emotion is conveyed subtly, and so is dishonesty. The same prospect "radar" that will pick up your passion and sincerity will also sound the alarm if you're lying. Your prospect will catch on, and you'll lose her.

The Copywriting Checklist

Before writing:

1. Study the company and the product/service being sold thoroughly to understand what is being sold.

2. Research the prospects and the market to determine what benefits the prospect wants most, secondary benefits wanted, objections, and what would get him to buy now. Key: Don’t guess; research.

3. Develop the main emotions that can be touched with the copywriting for this project. The strongest emotions are love, fear, greed, acceptance, survival, anger, and health.

4. Think like the prospect; and not like the marketer.

5. Develop the best offer(s) that can be made to the prospect. The offer includes pricing, terms, bonuses and guarantee.

Headline and start of copy:

6. Write at least 20 different headlines before choosing the best one.

Headline winners include a big, bold promise of the benefits the prospect wants most, specific figures, a guarantee, credibility enhancers, and a special offer.

7. Start of copy should reinforce the main benefit(s) of the headline, elaborate, and incorporate the secondary benefits the prospect wants most.

Body of copy:

8. Develop the prospect problem and pain points. Reinforce how these problems will remain or even get worse unless he takes action, and why the product/service is the best solution.

9. Copywriting should be first person, one-to-one, conversational.

10. List the prospect’s likely objections to buying, and overcome those objections.

11. Sincerely flatter the prospect if you can.

12. Get the prospect to mentally “picture and enjoy” the end-result benefits of buying.

13. Use testimonials, specifics, tests, clients, studies, success stories and memberships to add credibility and believability.

14. Be sure the copywriting is easy to read and “scan.” Use sub headlines with prospect benefits, short sentences, and short paragraphs.

15. If any copy is dull or boring, cut it or revise it.

16. If the flow gets slowed or stopped at any point in the copy, fix it.

17. Copywriting must be passionate, enthusiastic.

18. Create urgency to get a response as soon as possible.

19. Tell the prospect what he will lose if he does not respond.

20. Tell the prospect exactly what to do to order.

The Essential SEO Copywriting

1. Select your relevant keywords (keystrings)

How many keywords for a web page? There are a lot of SEO copywriting expert opinions here. I would say that it is better to have one or (maximum) two primary keystrings plus 3 - 6 secondary keywords. Be creative and keep in mind that you can have a complex keyphrase covering several alternatives. For example, "essential SEO copywriting" covers 3 other keystrings: "essential SEO", "essential copywriting" and "SEO copywriting", all related to the topic of this article / web page.

2. Keywords in META TAGS, targeted and concise

For this article the TITLE TAG is, obviously, "Essential SEO Copywriting". The DESCRIPTION is "Essential SEO copywriting: learn how to write a SEO-wise copy around relevant keywords for high rankings and traffic on your web site" and includes the title. The KEYWORDS META TAG is: "essential seo copywriting, copy, keywords, seo-wise, high rankings".

Keep your title / description / keywords META TAG to maximum 60 / 200 / 1000 characters each. DO NOT repeat a distinct keyword more than 3 times in any of your meta tags!

3. SEO copywriting - for humans

Include valuable and viable information in your SEO-wise copy. Write it in a coherent and easy-readable manner. DO NOT make it a meaningless list of keywords - search engines will penalize it and this isn't SEO copywriting. Check spelling and grammar. Write at least 500 words in the body text of each web page. If we are talking about an expert article, keep the copy around 800 words, structured in smaller sections for easy reading. Give a short subtitle to each section and include here some of the targeted keywords. Keep always in mind who will read your copy: search engine robots AND human visitors (readers).

4. Optimize the keyword density of the copy

Let's assume that you are writing a SEO-wise expert article, in order to promote your business (website). SEO copywriting specialists would say that you must achieve, for the targeted keywords, an optimal density between 2% and 7%. For example, if your keystring is "essential seo copywriting" and you have it repeated 25 times in an 1000 words article, it's density will be 2.5% - within the optimal keywords density range.

DO NOT forget that the text of the article will be placed on a page that will probably enclose also: a script (HTML / CSS), in-site navigation links, outbound links, copyright information, advertising of some sort and/or other type of content. Under these circumstances, the 2.5% initial keywords density may fall below the optimal threshold. So my advice is: try achieving in your article, at least for the primary keywords, a density around 3-5%. DO NOT stuff the copy with keywords, though - it may become unpleasantly unreadable for your visitors.

Make sure to place the main keywords at the beginning, middle and end of the copy.

5. HTML text formatting of your SEO-wise copy

All SEO copywriting specialists concur: increase the importance (for search engines and readers) of your body-text-embedded keywords by using the HTML text formatting tags. Use (heading 1) tag for your page's title, (heading 2) tag for the subtitles, (bold) and (italic) tags to emphasize the keywords scattered around the copy (DO NOT overuse these tags, though).

6. SEO copywriting for the entire website

We have examined the essential seo copywriting topics for one web page. If we are talking about writing the SEO-wise copy for an entire website, then there are some additional rules to follow:

-- DO NOT use image buttons for in-site navigation. Whenever you have on page "A" a link pointing to page "B" of your site, use a text link with the primary keywords of page "B" as anchor text.

16 Golden Rules

1) Have a good product. Be honest and mean what you say or what you offer. Avoid the exaggerations and hyped claims. You stake your reputation and your business offline or online it doesn’t make any difference.

2) Have a plan on your trial and error period. Don’t expect to write your first copy and be a golden one. You will alter it many times, test it, retest it, try a new one and so on. Set a schedule for that. Do not fool around.

3) AIDA. It’s the proven and the bedrock of the copy process. Always follow it. AIDA

A= Attention. You must grab it instantly or you don’t have a chance.

I= Interest. You grab and keep their interest. If they get bored, they will leave.

D= Desire. Interest must be transformed into desire for what you offer.

A= Action. You must convince them to act now. Not tomorrow, next week e.t.c. They will forget it a few hours later.

4) Always work on your prospect's emotion. Most people buy something emotionally and then justify it rationally.

5) Headline is the Key. If it doesn’t grab their attention then they‘ve gone away. Your headline must be a killer one.

6) Promote your best and strong benefit at first, not last. That’s how you are going to create interest and then desire.

7) Tell stories. That’s an excellent way to rekindle their emotion or even their passion. Stories always inspire.

8) Answer all the objections and questions you think your prospects would have. In that way, you will gain their trust.

9) Use bullet points for each of your benefits and bold, italics fonts for your text. Use the underline feature but not so often.

10) Give time limit. This is an excellent tool for calling your prospects to act now!

11) Offer testimonials. It is the mother of gaining-trust tools. Especially, if it is from someone important in your field.

12) Make them easy to buy. Don’t let them get lost in your web site. Make it as easy as possible.

13) Avoid graphics. They won’t help you. People are looking for information not images.

14) Give guarantees. Research has proved that when you have a long guarantee, your client will feel safer and that leads to fewer refunds too!

15) Never assume that your prospects know what you want to say. Always be specific and clear about your product or service.

16) Have your copy or ad checked by your friends, colleagues e.t.c. It’s better to have other views, after all, it’s a part of the testing process.

5 Reasons That Honesty Beats Puffery

1. Tone that leaves an ambiguous impression can damage your brand. Say the wrong way, and you might not see the damage right away, but you'll see it through decreased sales and customer loyalty.

2. Honesty is a universally accepted tone that will always be respected. Say what you mean and mean what you say-clearly. Over the long haul, people will listen to you more and remember more of what you say. And isn't that what you want in the first place?

3. Hype is easy to see and becomes tiresome over time. Too many people rely on hype in the hopes of "breaking through" the clutter. There's lots of hype out there, and these days, people see right through it and tune it out. See #2 for a better alternative.

4. The more people understand your message, the more people will become your customers. It's simple numbers. The better your message can be grasped, the stronger connection you're going to make with more of your potential customers.

5. In printed words, it IS what you say moreso than how you say it. Address the needs and wants of your market in an open and honest manner. Show them that you can offer them a solution no else can. Do it clearly and concisely because if they perceive you trying to "puff it up" to convince them, they won't believe you. Achieving an original tone is important, yes, and can still be done, but not at the expense of real, useful information and clarity.

Top 10 Website Copywriting Secrets

1. What’s in it for me? Why should I believe you? What do you want me to do and why should I?

Answer these questions immediately. The reader will leave your website unless these three questions are clearly answered in the beginning seconds.

2. You must have a strong, reader-benefit headline. The headline is by far the most important part of your website as far as its effectiveness. The words used (i.e., the copywriting) must give a reader benefits of your product or service, a big promise, a reward that the reader wants badly and be as specific and concise as possible.

3. Focus your copywriting to accomplish one main goal, which should be to get the interested reader to call you or place their order.

By laser-focusing on one action you’d like the reader to do most, your copywriting will be targeted, specific and powerful.

Of course, there will be other information and details on your website and you can have a secondary goal for the reader to email you or sign up for your newsletter or download a report … but focus mainly on the one specific action you want the prospect to take.

4. Be exciting, informative, to the point, interesting. People will not read something that is boring if they don’t have to. Make sure you avoid “corporate talk” that is loaded with “we” and general information the reader already knows.

5. Write mainly to get sales or leads; and not for the search engines. Your website may be listed high by a search engine, but what good is that if it does not bring you leads and sales.

6. Encourage interested readers to telephone you. A good salesperson can sell much more effectively by talking to a prospect than by just emailing. Talking builds rapport, trust, and questions asked so it is customized to the prospects specific needs and wants.

7. Words sell and graphics are secondary, so be sure to invest properly in the copywriting on your website.

8. Answer the concerns and objections the reader has. Make a list of frequently asked questions. Answer them for the reader on your website. Overcoming objections and concerns is what often clinches the sale.

9. Use proven winners for successful copywriting. These include reader benefit copywriting, be specific, tell the full story of why you are the best choice for the reader, use customer testimonials, make an offer, use a guarantee, get action now.

10. Hire the best copywriter you can afford because the copywriting on your website has the greatest effect on its success or failure. This is not the time to be cheap.

Affordable Advertising

1. Web design agencies

These are focused on building web pages for a website. Many web developers are now offering affordable services if you just know how and where to find them.

2. Logo services

Production of web site logos is the main concern of these agencies. Hundreds of pre-designed logos could be purchased or even customized to complement your website better.

3. Copywriting Agencies

In adjunct to search engine optimization, these agencies provide quality content that targets the attention of the market you intend to tap. Looking for the best deals with copywriting services will be a cinch if you know where to look. If you prefer freelancers, they are often found with their own websites.

4. Search engine optimization companies

These companies analyze and modify websites in order to achieve the highest possible search engine ranking. They improve your website's design and content to better attract more traffic. Link building could also be employed by these e-marketing agencies to benefit your business. They are actually a combination of all the services mentioned above. Sometimes they also go by the name of Internet marketing consultancies or something of that sort.

5. Domain registration companies

Your business's name in the web is the business of these companies. Looking for the best amongst a wide array of these agencies is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But if you are determined enough to do your homework with these marketing services, results would be more than rewarding. Just make sure that you don't register with those whose only intention is to rip off those who can't afford the most reputable domain registration agencies.

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Very informative! Thanks for sharing this info :)

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