2 Reasons to Avoid Keyword Stuffing in your SEO Copywriting
Keyword stuffing is when you overuse a target keyword. It’s among the more costly errors you can make in content marketing and search engine optimization for two reasons: readers don’t like it and Google’s search engine crawlers don’t abide it.
Let’s look at both.
Read the full article…Eight qualities of strong personal branding
Peter Montoya’s personal branding is on point.
From the first few words on his website, you know what he’s all about. So you go to a piece he wrote on LinkedIn, and it’s in line. Then you want more, so you Google “Peter Montoya articles” and boom.
Read the full article…What you should know about becoming a copywriter
On the last day of most copywriting courses, the program director will put all the students together in a room and tell them what to expect from becoming a copywriter at an ad agency.
If they’re honest, it’ll sound like the most cutthroat, back-stabbing, ego-fuelled mess of a life one could imagine. And if the students are honest, they’re all itching to get out there.
Read the full article…What traits do you need to be a great copywriter?
We recently met the next crop of youngsters at the Humber College Portfolio Show, all hoping to be the next great copywriter. As we flipped through books to find the gems in the limestone, we got to thinking about what “gem” means to us. We came up with five common traits every great copywriter has:
Read the full article…Active Voice and Passive Voice: Differences and Benefits of Each
Grammatically, the difference between the active voice and passive voice is the relationship between verb and subject. In the active voice, the subject is performing the action. In the passive voice, the action is happening to the subject.
Active: The man drives the car.
Read the full article…Brain Stuffing
Copywriting is cool because it’s always different. In the past few weeks, we’ve:
– named a satellite
– convinced a province of voters to stand up for a union being squeezed
– developed a manual for a weather tracker
– created a brand for a new vertical farming company
– wrote bios for 39 exceptional Indigenous Canadians
The copywriter’s unwritten responsibility
Copywriters have an unwritten responsibility to elevate the discourse because they’re in a great position to do it for these reasons:
We have to tell the truth
Truth is tough to find these days. What’s real? What’s fake? Who has an agenda and what do they want people to think? This skepticism has tainted our relationships with news media, artists and filmmakers, governments and each other.
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