Woo! Commerce. Who doesn’t love a bit of commerce? Especially when its mercurial golden scales are tip-tip-tipping in your favour. But how can you stack the deck to move those scales? First off, you should probably get your metaphors straight. Second, if you’re using...
Location, location, location! Yes, it’s a well-worn real estate phrase, but it can also be applied to SEO, and especially to wedding photography SEO. As enticing as a jet-setting life spent shooting destination weddings sounds, the chances are your bread and butter is...
Meta descriptions. You’ve probably heard the term before; however, it’s one of those phrases that the eye seems to just glide over, defying a tangible definition. You know they’re important. But you don’t know what they are. Seriously, what are meta descriptions?!?...
Just like vegetables, organic keywords are far superior to non-organic ones. But the key is where you put them. Like veggies, you can’t just shoehorn them in any old place. Now, you can make a stir-fry from organic vegetables – but what we definitely don’t want is an...
So, you want to write sales copy that converts? Good on you – that’s a step in the right direction. But wait! Isn’t that what EVERYONE is trying to do?! Unfortunately, yes – they’re all at it. So how can you stand out in an internet of businesses who are all trying to...
Lights! Camera! Action? Well, you’d certainly hope so. However, not all calls to action actually result in action - which can be hugely problematic when you’ve taken the trouble to set up the lights and camera. If a tree falls in the forest, does anyone actually hear...
As a general rule, you don’t want things to be sticky. Carpets. Walls. Kids’ faces. Stickiness isn’t a desired quality in the majority of items, unless it’s glue... or blogs! Sticky blogs are optimum. The stickier the better. But how can you achieve the desired...
Who doesn’t enjoy a good question? A wise man once said, “Question everything.” But did he really mean everything? And did he mean out loud, or in your head? If you started to literally question everything, wouldn’t you be arrested and/or possibly slapped within a...
Conventional wisdom claims that, as copywriters, we have about five seconds to grab the reader’s attention and keep it. Five seconds is about the span of a heading. So you have a headline’s worth of time to reel your audience in, otherwise they’re back in the river....
“There is nothing to writing,” Ernest Hemingway once said. “All you have to do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Though he probably would’ve baulked at the mere suggestion, Ernest would have made a very good copywriter – that quote is a great tagline. No one’s...
A landing page is exactly that: a place where you want your potential customers to land. Think of yourself as one of those people who guides planes into airports with orange sticks. They’re crucial in making sure the plane nails its landing and parks itself in the...
Here’s the thing. Every single part of your page needs to reflect your brand voice – even the dead ends. It’s not just the upfront copy you need to worry about! Your whole website is an advertisement for your company, so make sure to give it some personality. Even if...