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Ultimate Online Copywriting Cheat Sheet

November 20, 2007 Comments (4)

Jennifer Laycock

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Anyone with an ounce of knowledge about online marketing knows traffic is worthless if you can't deliver compelling copy. Good copy earns search rankings. Good copy earns links. Good copy convinces visitors to stop shopping and start buying. Unfortunately, good copy isn't easy to write. That's why the Eisenberg brothers have put together a fantastic list of more than one hundred copywriting articles divided by topic and spread out over two lengthy posts.

The first post covers topics like writing headlines, customer-focused copy, building trust, blogging, finding copywriters and more. The second post dives into word choice, formatting, personas, branding and quite a few other topics.

It's not the type of resource you can read through in an afternoon, but it's certainly one worth bookmarking and working through as you have some free time.

(Hat tip to John Jantsch)

Jennifer Laycock is the Editor of Search Engine Guide, an educational web site aimed at translating the search marketing world into something that small business owners can understand. Jennifer specializes in common sense search engine marketing, viral marketing and customer outreach via social media and blogs. A former search marketing consultant and in-house trainer, Jennifer’s clients have included companies like Verizon, American Greetings and Highlights for Children. Her primary clients now are a little girl named Elnora and a little boy named Emmitt.

Comments (4)

Thanks a lot--I've been paging through the various resources in these links and they've all been really interesting. From a newbie in seo, thanks for your down-to-earth and truly useful posts, Jennifer.

Posted by: Tessa on November 21, 2007

Jennifer,

This is outstanding information.

I do agree with yout that excellent copy and informative copy is the most important thing in maintaining your audience.

There are too many sites that deliver poor quality content.

Thanks again for these amazing tips.

Gisele
http://www.mybeautymatch.com

Posted by: Gisele B. on November 27, 2007

This is a nice cheat sheet. If you want a complete seo cheat sheet, check out EXPERT Webmasters at www.expert-webmasters.com. It is easy to read and follow and contains hundreds of the most effective seo techniques, tips, tools and links on search engine optimization.

Posted by: Ron on May 6, 2008

I checked into this cheat sheet at Expert Webmasters and it seems very informative. This seems much more detailed than the SEOMoz cheat sheet.

Posted by: Christine on July 25, 2008

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