Every website copywriter faces a trap - Search Enginitis. Writing web copy with technology makes sense, but writing web copy for people makes the sale. Here are two ways to connect with people across broadband and create web copy that sells. Your website looks great: solid words, easy navigation, graphics just so, and maybe even a bit of flash with some multimedia. But customers are not buying. The Technology Trap You wonder if it's the web copy itself. How can that be? You remembered the two key mantras of powerful web copy - "write for the search engines" and "write for the medium." Your web copy used appropriate keywords to help search engines find you and traffic is up. Surely, customers enjoy reading your content because your web copy is laid out with the internet in mind using:
- short sentences
- brief paragraphs
- bullets
- write the way customers speak
- replace your pitch with a theme.
- put your baby finger on the first modifier you can find.
- put your ring finger on the next adjective or adverb.
- repeat until you run out of modifiers or fingers.
- The opening section could point out how the discomfort of Gingivitis wipes the grin off a person's face.
- Another segment of the web copy would show how ugly cavities make someone too self- conscious to smile.
- Yet another piece would reveal how the high cost of root canal causes an individual to frown.
- the language of my readers
- a central idea, trust