Archive for July, 2008

Create a Long Lasting Impression with Your Home Page Content

The Home Page or Main Page plays the most important role in developing a perception in the reader’s mind about your website. Visitors generally tend to view the home page as soon as they feel their queries would be answered by your website. Therefore, it becomes very essential that the home page content is generated [...]


Effective Ways of Writing a Memo

A well-defined memorandum or memo is one of the most effective tools to communicate information between employees within an organization. It is comparatively less formal than a letter and is used as an internal document to inform people about the organizational activities.


The K.I.S.S. Principle in Copywriting

If according to you, copywriting is all about including lengthy sentences, jargons and complicated words in the copy; think again! Ever since website copywriting evolved over the years, the number of copywriters increased manifold. Moreover, in an attempt to lure people to a website, use of attractive words in form of jargons started becoming common [...]


Work towards Improving Website Value than PageRank

Several webmasters often consider Google PageRank as a tool to measuring their website’s relevance. In fact, some even go to the extent of only focusing on achieving a higher PageRank, keeping aside or neglecting the importance of building quality websites.


When Images Speak through Your Copy

This print advertisement by Contract (India) is a perfect example of how Copy could be effectively used to bring inanimate objects to life.
A lot of times Copywriters speak about the features of a product through images. It simply acts like a speech bubble/text block.
I have transcribed the Copy for those who cant read the ad:
Headline:
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Making Effective Statements that Impact Millions

Here is an example of how you could give importance to particular statements/sentences to get your point across (or mislead the user). The deodorant brand Axe is known to make bold statements in a quirky manner. This print advertisement aimed at Indian audiences ensures the same fact.


Concentrate More on Traffic Quality, not Quantity!

Online traffic plays a very important role in the success of a website or blog. Higher traffic reflects the popularity of a website/blog, and helps in achieving top search engine results. However, driving in people is a tedious task, considering there are millions of websites and blogs available on the Web today.


The Importance of Spell Check and Proof Reading

Spell Check and Proofreading form very important activities in the content writing process. Often, to reduce the writing time, content writers neglect these crucial aspects, unaware of how risky it can prove to a particular website or blog.


Is Social Media Optimization More Important than SEO?

Today, with the popularity of social media sites cracking the rooftops across the online industry, people have started questioning the relevance of search engine optimization (SEO) in the current and future scenario. There is no doubt that the two processes are highly distinct from each other, however the final objectives of either is identical.


How to Design a Marketing Strategy for Copywriting Business

Copywriting is a very serious business. Today, we see a number of copywriters trying to create a strong impact in the online industry, particularly because of the lucrative benefit it offers. So, with the increasing competition from every corner of the world, you need to strategise your marketing efforts carefully and tactfully in order to [...]