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J. Falcon 03-08-2010 11:22 AM

Copywriting's Place in Web Enterprises
 
Copywriting's Place in Web Enterprises
Adult Copywriters


Good business is built on good communication.

It is simple and wonderfully vague, but without a doubt an absolute truth. Before you can sell something you have to tell people it exists and at the same time why they need to buy it. How to communicate those things successfully is beyond the scope of this article. Today we're just going to take an overall look at the role of the written word in general when it comes to building websites that can be found by your potential clients and then communicate successfully, regardless of what they sell.

Search Engines Read

Google and other search engines are built on top of complicated algorithms, but essentially they are just good (and intuitive) readers - and even better organizers. If you have your site set up in an intelligent manner that is organized and focused, these search engines will be better able to understand what information it is you have to offer the world and make sure those looking for that information find your website. That means more people arrive on your site and you can sell more subscriptions, goods and services.

Search engines do see more than just words. They see your site's HTML code and are getting better at “seeing” images and even being able to interpret things written within Flash applications. New technologies and applications are springing up that can even take pictures submitted by end users and spit out information about them like where the picture was taken and even what buildings appear in the picture, but we're a long way from being able to use anything but words and symbols in our day-to-day search queries.

When we want to find something online, we have to write it out and plug it into a search box. Plain and clearly written text is still the most important medium of communication online.

Write For People

In many ways, search engines don't seem all that different from human beings when they visit your website, but that isn't entirely true.

A computer may read the same text as a human being and think it’s about one thing because of the frequency of certain words and the sort of sites that link to that particular domain or web page. A human being will visit that same page and may see nothing but nonsense and gibberish of zero value.

On the other side of the same coin, a person may find a page full of specific and valuable information, but a search engine may visit and think it's too vague or unfocused to be worth sharing. This happens a lot with web pages that address multiple topics and issues rather than focusing on one specific topic per page.

Webmasters no doubt have had success gaming search engines. You can post dense texts that really say nothing at all but manage to repeat keywords often and you very well may get traffic. At least in the short term. Google and other search engines are constantly looking to prevent that sort of site from ranking well. It makes sense: their business is delivering the right information and doing so quickly. If they serve up spammy pages with no valuable information, they're not providing much of a service.

Even if you manage to get a visitor with your spam page, if your site has no value, it will probably be rather obvious. If it provides value but a visitor cannot recognize that immediately, they'll leave all the same. Nowadays surfers are savvier than ever when it comes to recognizing a spam site from a value providing website. Part of looking 'legit' will have to do with design, and part with the written words on the page.

Your first priority with any text should be communicating to human readers, especially if you're interested in long term success. Writing text for a web page is really no different from writing an article for an academic journal, a story for a newspaper or a guide to a program or machine. You want to be clear, focused and keep things simple and accessible. With online writing we could add to that list being brief and formatting your text so that it is easy to scan*, since most visitors will only look over your page quickly to pick out the bits of data that they actually need. In most cases, they don't care if you're funny, if you're smart or if you're a cool person. They want information, and the faster the better.

When we focus on writing for a real audience a lot of the things that make sites rank well will occur naturally, like keyword density for example. If you provide real value, your visitors will also be more likely to stick around your site longer, trust some of your recommendations and links and maybe even promote your site somewhere else online with a recommendation or link.

* (See these two articles from Useit.com: Concise, SCANNABLE, and Objective: How to Write for the Web / F-Shaped Pattern of Reading on the Web: Misunderstood, But Still Relevant (Even on Mobile) )

But It's A Porn Site!

Systems need to be tweaked to work with your business model, whatever it may be. At Adult Copywriters we do a lot of work with porn review sites, for which the information laid out above is particularly relevant, but even if you're running a simple blog you'll still want to think about how you're using text on your web pages.

Just because you're promoting and selling porn doesn't mean that the text is meaningless. Though your visitors, depending on your site's model, may be unlikely to spend much time reading when there are much more interesting photos to look at, that text is still going to be what can rope them in from search engine queries.

If It Doesn't Have To Be Stylized or Fancy, Why Hire a Professional?

This is an easy one: because they can write better than you. If they can't, and you have the time to do it yourself, by all means I encourage you to get to work!

Professional writers are very good at doing all the things this article has discussed so far. They know how to write simple text that communicates what it needs to quickly and accurately. I would recommend you work with copywriters that also have some knowledge of basic HTML and Search Engine Optimization, since how they structure their writing and as well as their word choices will have consequences for the development of both.

Webmasters have many options that range from very cheap to very expensive. As in all things in life, you get what you pay for. For some business models low quality text will work fine, for others it will cripple the project. Know what you need to be successful, then seek the best cost solution to make it a reality.

About Adult Copywriters

ACW is a small and dedicated team of writers and project managers. Over the past two years our small company has grown steadily and now handles large scale content creation projects, specializing in the development of review site content. We manage the entire content side of these projects from getting passwords to the writing and editing of the actual reviews. Our team can scale to any size a project requires and is always eager to hear about new opportunities. Visit our brand new website at Homepage - Adultcopywriters for more information.

Barefootsies 03-08-2010 11:24 AM

Nice read champ.
:thumbsup

candyflip 03-08-2010 11:25 AM

Copywrite 2009

J. Falcon 03-08-2010 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barefootsies (Post 16929518)
Nice read champ.
:thumbsup

Thanks :thumbsup

Adult Creative Labs 03-08-2010 11:31 AM

Good read!

CPimp 03-08-2010 12:15 PM

Excellent information! Good for both new and old webmasters alike.

notime 03-08-2010 01:34 PM

Happy customer bump

J. Falcon 03-08-2010 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tube2k (Post 16929696)
Excellent information! Good for both new and old webmasters alike.

Glad you like it.

JustDaveXxx 03-08-2010 04:46 PM

Nice.:thumbsup

Rick Diculous 03-08-2010 07:53 PM

Good read man! As always! Here's a bump for you

bloggingseo 03-08-2010 10:08 PM

Brilliant read and very well thought out. Always good to read your information, John!

myjah 03-09-2010 06:36 AM

John, Thank you for adding this to our Educational Series lineup! Great info that truly makes a difference between a quality site and all the other ones.

J. Falcon 03-09-2010 06:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bloggingseo (Post 16931056)
Brilliant read and very well thought out. Always good to read your information, John!

Thank you.

A-n-D-r-E-S 03-09-2010 08:16 AM

Excellent read J. :)

Kool Kelly 03-09-2010 11:00 AM

Well, that's interesting... :thumbsup

LiquidMatt 03-09-2010 12:59 PM

Being new to this biz, I love the fact I could find info like this and read it
thank you

VladS 03-09-2010 01:35 PM

Thanks for the article.

Relentless 03-09-2010 01:55 PM

Nice read and congrats on the new site design as well :thumbsup

Marco Torino 03-09-2010 02:29 PM

definetely its great read John!
best wishes for you

J. Falcon 03-09-2010 05:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marco Torino (Post 16932911)
definetely its great read John!
best wishes for you

Thank you.

trevesty 03-09-2010 05:56 PM

Great read :)

J. Falcon 03-10-2010 06:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LiquidMatt (Post 16932650)
Being new to this biz, I love the fact I could find info like this and read it
thank you

:thumbsup

Pandoras 03-10-2010 07:00 AM

Amazing read :thumbsup

ajapub 03-10-2010 11:33 AM

Great thread- very informative :)

TurboAngel 03-13-2010 09:03 AM

Great info!

Cyber Fucker 03-13-2010 01:11 PM

Great read! Thx for sharing! :pimp

pornpf69 03-13-2010 05:34 PM

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fatfoo 03-14-2010 05:55 PM

Very well written. Thanks for sharing.

Arnox 03-15-2010 09:20 AM

nice read

campuscodi 05-05-2010 11:21 PM

Good read for the basic information about copywriting.
Very nice. Good job.

djtomcat 05-14-2010 04:49 AM

Amazing read :P

LoveSandra 05-26-2010 12:13 PM

Good read

GayContentWriter 12-27-2010 05:25 AM

Very informative.
And I agree wholeheartedly.
Many people fail to see the power that copy has on both SE's and the reader.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by J. Falcon (Post 16929512)
Copywriting's Place in Web Enterprises
Adult Copywriters


Good business is built on good communication.

It is simple and wonderfully vague, but without a doubt an absolute truth. Before you can sell something you have to tell people it exists and at the same time why they need to buy it. How to communicate those things successfully is beyond the scope of this article. Today we're just going to take an overall look at the role of the written word in general when it comes to building websites that can be found by your potential clients and then communicate successfully, regardless of what they sell.

Search Engines Read

Google and other search engines are built on top of complicated algorithms, but essentially they are just good (and intuitive) readers - and even better organizers. If you have your site set up in an intelligent manner that is organized and focused, these search engines will be better able to understand what information it is you have to offer the world and make sure those looking for that information find your website. That means more people arrive on your site and you can sell more subscriptions, goods and services.

Search engines do see more than just words. They see your site's HTML code and are getting better at ?seeing? images and even being able to interpret things written within Flash applications. New technologies and applications are springing up that can even take pictures submitted by end users and spit out information about them like where the picture was taken and even what buildings appear in the picture, but we're a long way from being able to use anything but words and symbols in our day-to-day search queries.

When we want to find something online, we have to write it out and plug it into a search box. Plain and clearly written text is still the most important medium of communication online.

Write For People

In many ways, search engines don't seem all that different from human beings when they visit your website, but that isn't entirely true.

A computer may read the same text as a human being and think it?s about one thing because of the frequency of certain words and the sort of sites that link to that particular domain or web page. A human being will visit that same page and may see nothing but nonsense and gibberish of zero value.

On the other side of the same coin, a person may find a page full of specific and valuable information, but a search engine may visit and think it's too vague or unfocused to be worth sharing. This happens a lot with web pages that address multiple topics and issues rather than focusing on one specific topic per page.

Webmasters no doubt have had success gaming search engines. You can post dense texts that really say nothing at all but manage to repeat keywords often and you very well may get traffic. At least in the short term. Google and other search engines are constantly looking to prevent that sort of site from ranking well. It makes sense: their business is delivering the right information and doing so quickly. If they serve up spammy pages with no valuable information, they're not providing much of a service.

Even if you manage to get a visitor with your spam page, if your site has no value, it will probably be rather obvious. If it provides value but a visitor cannot recognize that immediately, they'll leave all the same. Nowadays surfers are savvier than ever when it comes to recognizing a spam site from a value providing website. Part of looking 'legit' will have to do with design, and part with the written words on the page.

Your first priority with any text should be communicating to human readers, especially if you're interested in long term success. Writing text for a web page is really no different from writing an article for an academic journal, a story for a newspaper or a guide to a program or machine. You want to be clear, focused and keep things simple and accessible. With online writing we could add to that list being brief and formatting your text so that it is easy to scan*, since most visitors will only look over your page quickly to pick out the bits of data that they actually need. In most cases, they don't care if you're funny, if you're smart or if you're a cool person. They want information, and the faster the better.

When we focus on writing for a real audience a lot of the things that make sites rank well will occur naturally, like keyword density for example. If you provide real value, your visitors will also be more likely to stick around your site longer, trust some of your recommendations and links and maybe even promote your site somewhere else online with a recommendation or link.

* (See these two articles from Useit.com: http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/writing.html / http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html )

But It's A Porn Site!

Systems need to be tweaked to work with your business model, whatever it may be. At Adult Copywriters we do a lot of work with porn review sites, for which the information laid out above is particularly relevant, but even if you're running a simple blog you'll still want to think about how you're using text on your web pages.

Just because you're promoting and selling porn doesn't mean that the text is meaningless. Though your visitors, depending on your site's model, may be unlikely to spend much time reading when there are much more interesting photos to look at, that text is still going to be what can rope them in from search engine queries.

If It Doesn't Have To Be Stylized or Fancy, Why Hire a Professional?

This is an easy one: because they can write better than you. If they can't, and you have the time to do it yourself, by all means I encourage you to get to work!

Professional writers are very good at doing all the things this article has discussed so far. They know how to write simple text that communicates what it needs to quickly and accurately. I would recommend you work with copywriters that also have some knowledge of basic HTML and Search Engine Optimization, since how they structure their writing and as well as their word choices will have consequences for the development of both.

Webmasters have many options that range from very cheap to very expensive. As in all things in life, you get what you pay for. For some business models low quality text will work fine, for others it will cripple the project. Know what you need to be successful, then seek the best cost solution to make it a reality.

About Adult Copywriters

ACW is a small and dedicated team of writers and project managers. Over the past two years our small company has grown steadily and now handles large scale content creation projects, specializing in the development of review site content. We manage the entire content side of these projects from getting passwords to the writing and editing of the actual reviews. Our team can scale to any size a project requires and is always eager to hear about new opportunities. Visit our brand new website at www.AdultCopywriters.com for more information.


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