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Putting Words to Work:
Write Your Own
Website Copy
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Putting Words to Work:
Write Your Own Website Copy

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Today’s Speaker
Carrie Rollwagen
Communications Director
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Why Do Words Matter?
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What We See
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What Google Sees
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What Google Sees
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Start Now!
(The earlier the better.)
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Make a Plan
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Research
•Evaluate your current materials
•Pull all text from your current website
•Get your keywords if you want SEO
•Check out your competition
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Find Your Voice
•Casual or formal
•First person or third person
•Direct address or indirect address
•Stick with brand messaging if you have it
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Best Practices
•Active is better than passive voice
•Pick a comma style
•Pick a dash and ellipses style
•Make your content “evergreen”
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Define Your Audience
•Experts
•Novices
•Potential Users
•Loyal Customers
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Define Your Audience
•What do people want to see from your website?
• Short, to-the-point content
• No jargon
• Easy-to-navigate site
•What does Google want to see from your website?
• Lots of copy
• Keywords
• Specifics about your location
• Fresh information
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Compromise for Google + People
•Break up text
•Use subheads
•Add a blog to incorporate extra content
•Use design to put key information in easy-to-find places
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Get Organized
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Outline
•Have your site map? Work from there
•Don’t have a site map? Start with common pages
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Common Pages and What They Need
•Home: keywords, CTA, overall description
•About: SHORT history section, address or link to contact info
•Bios: parallel construction, possibly use a questionnaire
•Contact: address, map and phone number
•Products/Services: original product descriptions, easy-to-navigate
services
•Blog: links to other blogs, in-line links, lots of SEO
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Start Writing
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Get Organized
•Work from a site map or detailed outline
•Create a text document to work from
•Save each round of edits separately
•Set reasonable length goals (you can always add more copy)
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Writer’s Block Blockers
•Work from an outline
•Write a little and then add more later
•Try writing in your email or writing by hand
•Dictate using voice memo
carrierollwagen.com/how-to-combat-writers-block
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Edit Your Work
•Edit in a word processing client if possible
•Use tools like spellcheck and grammar check
•Have your team and managers edit in a text document
•Recruit a proofreader
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Make Google Happy
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SEO
•Go easy on the keywords — don’t keyword stuff
•Write your metadescription
•Pay attention to heads and subheads
•Incorporate keywords into taglines and slider text
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Connect Your Website
•Be liberal with links
•Create CTA buttons and in-line CTA
•Always be leading to something else; don’t let them just close the
page
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Last Lunch & Learn of the Season!
October 19
Video For Beginners:
Basics Of Making
And Posting Video
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