What goals do you try to achieve with your content? Are you publishing with a strategy, or focused too much on keywords? In this guest post by Catherine Fyson from Koozai suggests four questions to ask before you hit publish. Incidentally, I’ve decided to ramp up my guest blogging activity. So if you’d like me to […]
The Copywriter’s Crucible Scoops an Award
Writing a blog can sometimes be an isolating experience. You hammer out a post each week (well, most weeks anyway) before publishing it and hoping someone somewhere will find it useful. Unlike paid tasks, you don’t get the luxury of an email or phone call letting you know whether you’re on the right track. Instead, comments […]
Want 55% more traffic? Start a blog
When I started this blog three years ago I used it as a platform for banging my drum about the benefits of blogging for businesses (in fact, The Copywriter’s Crucible was originally called the keyword packed ‘SEO and Business Blogging UK’ (I don’t know why I changed the name either)). I started blogging after being indoctrinated […]
Business Blogging/Content Marketing Campaign Tips
Last week I offered some advice on why businesses of all kinds (whether you’re a one man band or continent spanning corp) should consider starting a content marketing campaign. People are constantly searching the web for answers, so if you can provide useful information in a way that promotes your expertise then you can increase […]
WordPress Autoresponder Plugin Released
Do you wish you could do more with posts you spent hours researching and writing only to see them disappear into the dark depths of your archives? Well, now you can thanks to a new autoresponder plugin for WordPress. Whilst autoresponders are nothing new, the best thing about this plugin is that enables you to […]
Another blog that’s worth a visit for Copywriter’s Crucible fans
Whether you call it business blogging, content marketing or engagement, giving away free content is a great way of building trust and credibility with info hungry web surfers. Google seems to like it too. It has taken a while for awareness to spread (I’ve still got a drawer full of business blogging leaflets from a […]
Guest appearance at Freelance Writing Jobs
This week I’ve guest posted over at Freelance Writing Jobs – The Internet’s #1 Freelance Writer Jobs Board. The topic won’t be new to regular Crucible readers, but I thought FWJ’s subscribers would appreciate a nudge towards promoting themselves as ‘added value writers’, educating their clients on content marketing and then demanding more money. FWJ’s […]
Time to charge for access to your content?
Regular Crucible readers, and anyone who has read my eBook, will be familiar with my sermons on the need to provide informative, useful content in order to build trust and credibility with website visitors. Whilst giving away free content is a great way of making friends, it’s not going to pay any bills and it […]
Ten Steps for Changing Your WordPress Domain
They often say that moving house is one of the most stressful things you can do, and I think moving domains isn’t a lot better and I hope I haven’t lost you all along the way. Ever since Google started indexing my blog as my home page, I’ve been steadily heading towards re-branding my copywriting […]
Top Ten Tips for Marketing Your Website
If you’ve started the New Year with a shiny new website, and invested in some copywriting for the landing page, you might be thinking that you can just sit back and wait for the sales to come flooding in. Well, it’s not that easy I’m afraid. It takes a lot of effort to successfully market […]