
So, you've launched a website. You've put a fair deal of work into the many SEO strategies
required to get traffic coming your way. Your meta tags, meta descriptions, and title tags are
excellent. The overall look and feel of your website are great. Itâs user friendly, has all the right
things a good website should have. Well, that is, except for good quality copywriting. Believe it
or not, the way the words are written and how they flow off of each of your web pages will have
an impact on your websiteâs success.
How To Write SEO Copy
There is a fair deal of science involved in SEO copywriting. But donât worry if science was not
your best subject as we will break it down for you into small, easy-to-understand pieces. Letâs
focus onâŠ
Keywords.
Keywords are like gold to a website. That is if you use âem right. The science part of the SEO
equation comes from keywords. Here is a look at some of the many ways you can use them to
tweak your SEO.
Tip #1 â Page Titles
The page title is of the web page that Google sees first and your website visitors are going to
discover first. It tells both the AI and humans what the web page is all about. So, here are a
couple of examples for you to consider.
If your website is about growing vegetables, your page title on your home page should be
something like: âVegetables â How To Grow Them At Home.â
Donât Use a page title like this:
âWelcome To Growing Vegetables At Home.â
We say this simply because the word âwelcomeâ is not going to help your home page stand out because it is
likely a keyword used in far too many home page titles.
Tip #2 â The First Sentence
You know how when you meet someone face-to-face for the first time that you introduce
yourself by telling that person your name and maybe what you do for a living? Search engines
understand that kind of language. Only, it has to be with your primary keywords used early in the
first sentence on your target page. Then, to make sure Google got it, repeat those primary
keywords a few more times on that page.
So, as an example, the first sentence in the target page of our fictitious Growing Vegetables
website would be something like this:
âGrowing vegetables takes a great deal of dedication, time and effort.â Elsewhere on the same
page, weâd say something that would allow the words âgrowing vegetablesâ to fit in organically
(ha-ha, gardening joke there for you).
What you donât want your first sentence to be is like this:
âWelcome to our website about gardening. Weâll show you ways to grow vegetables here.â
Tip #3 â Use Common Alternatives
Hereâs a fun tip thatâll get you some additional search engine mileage. When researching your
keywords, be sure to keep a list of what we like to call âcommon alternativesâ to your primary
keywords. For example, if our primary keywords are âgrowing vegetablesâ and some of the
common alternatives were âvegetable gardening,â âgrow veggies at home,â âgrowing veggiesâ
and so on, you can help your individual web pages and complete website by slipping in some of
these alternatives into your web page content.
Tip #4 â Get Geographic
If you are a small business, never underestimate the power of geography attached to your
primary keywords. You could even create geo-targeted splash pages that would âpersonalizeâ the
visit for users who found your website in this manner. But how do you use it? Hereâs what we
would do if our business was located in Miami , Florida .
We would use phrases like:
âGrowing vegetables in Miami ,Floridaâ
âMiami , Florida gardening supply storeâ and things like that. To hit another nearby target, you take out the
Miami , Florida part and substitute with âTampa , Floridaâ or whatever geographic target
you are seeking traffic from specifically.
Tip #5 â Internal Links
This is almost an âold schoolâ SEO tactic but it still works which means you should be doing the
same within your website. What you are trying to create is a spiderweb of information that
causes a user to move deeper and deeper into your website. Itâs a good thing provided that the
internal links you use are for items that are relevant to the content on the page the link is posted
to. Your goal is to send a visitor to your website to more info but within your website.
Tip #6 â Write For Humans
Considering that the content you are putting on your web pages is aimed at human readers, it
should read like something of interest or informative. If your copywriting for SEO ends up using
random words in strings of sentences so that you can get your keywords in, we get it. The search
engines need to be fed as well. But you don't want something like this:
âGrowing vegetables is a lot of fun. In fact, it is easy to grow veggies at home. All you need is a
good understanding of vegetable gardening. Thatâs because vegetable gardening is the key to
growing vegetables.â
Um, sort of dull, right? At least the keywords got used.
Tip #7 â Donât Cheat Your Copy
Yes, you need to be able to keep an eye on your competitors online. Itâs the same in any kind of
business but with the internet, you have to use your efforts to be better than competitors and you
do this by not cheating. If you have a competitor that publishes incredible content every week,
you may want to attempt the same strategy. Only donât copy ânâ paste what they are posting.
This can result in Google penalties . Ifyou want to outrank them, work on the other parts of your SEO first.
Then when you get around to improving your copywriting, hire someone to do that part for you.
In Conclusion
Keywords are the main part of good copywriting for SEO. Well, that and grammar. To attract
both search engines and human visitors to your website, there has to be copywriting there that
will keep both busy as long as they stay on your site. It is keyword usage that can make a
difference. By following the tips noted above, you can easily get an edge over your competitors.