Over the last few weeks, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how blogs work from an SEO perspective and one of the core things I’ve been experimenting with recently is length. Specifically looking at blog word count.
There’s quite a lot of information out there about how long a blog should be and it’s something I’ve been experimenting with recently. Read More
Often in SEO, we discuss the issue of duplicated content. It’s something that many people working in the realm of digital marketing and copywriting are aware of, however, what do we know about the real impact of duplicated content?
Probably one of the most common myths in SEO is that duplicate content is penalised. Google reads the content of a page from an HTML perspective and when you take into account all the replicated elements shared between each page including templates etc most of the content on a page appears duplicated to Google. Read More
Well, I’ve had a rather exciting day today, so I thought I’d pen you a quick blog to tell you all about it. I know, I know; you don’t deserve me.
So, what have I been up to that’s been so important? I got a free lunch for one thing, and very nice it was too. Suitably vegetarian. Besides that – and possibly more importantly – I also got an incredibly useful mentoring session on how to make an impact in business. Plus, I met some lovely people too. What more can you ask for on a Wednesday in mid-March? Read More
So last week, on 9th November, we had a rather exciting evening here at GrowTraffic. After much build up and a lot of difficult judging (some may call it arguing!), it was finally the awards dinner itself for the 2016 Rossendale Business Awards, where GT were sponsoring the Creative Business category.
Held at the impressively large and well-appointed Whitworth Riverside, the evening was the culmination of much hard work by the event’s organisers, the Valley at Work business networking group, and was the perfect opportunity for Rossendale businesses to come together, let their hair down and celebrate another year’s great work. And what a celebration it was!
But in amongst all the other impressive businesses there on the night was the one that shone out the most for us, the winner of our Creative Business award in fact, the fabulous Kidult and Co. I met up with the girls earlier this week to talk about the business, their success and what it meant to win this award. Read More
Being a freelancer has always been hard work – it requires a lot of graft and dedication to pull off being your own boss and successfully running your own business – but these days the slog is potentially even harder than it was before. Not only do you still have to do all the things that you already had to do – such as all your own sales, marketing, accounts and, obviously, the actual work – but you also now have to compete against so many other people doing exactly the same thing that you do (albeit not as well, clearly).
The reason for this increase in competition is simple; the age of the freelancer has arrived. In recent years, the freelance economy has grown exponentially (so much so, that the freelance economy is now an actual thing) and there are now more freelancers than the human race has ever experienced before. But far from this being a negative turn of events, we at GrowTraffic think this is brilliant. We love a freelancer, so it’s a case of ‘the more the merrier’ as far as we’re concerned. But what exactly has happened to facilitate this sudden explosion in freelancing, and how will it affect the way we all work as a result? Read More
(This article was originally written and published in May 2014)
OK, so you’ve paid your fancy web designer a small fortune and you’ve got the whizziest website on the World Wide Web, but your sales haven’t increased and your boss thinks you’re crazy for wasting all that money. Don’t panic! There’s one simple thing you can change to instantly improve your snazzy new website; the content.
Whether it’s content or copywriting, it needs to be good and it needs to be plentiful. Yes, a website needs to look good and it always helps to be innovative, but what you say on your website is even more important than how it looks. As the research is now proving, without well written, relevant and regularly updated content your website will fail to climb in the rankings or to produce those all important conversations. Read More
Yesterday, I read a really interesting blog post on Search Engine Journal by Tom Demers entitled 5 Reasons Why It’s OK To Mention Competitors In Your Content. Funnily enough, this post struck an instant chord with me, as it almost word for word echoed a conversation I had with one of my clients a week or so ago. So, I thought I’d share it with you so that you can see just how right Tom Demers is about this very valid point!
As the title of the blog suggests, Tom’s post listed 5 reasons why writing about your competitors in your content marketing can be a positive thing; I obviously don’t want to go over everything again that Tom wrote, as he made his points very eloquently and you’re perfectly capable of reading it for yourself. Instead, I’ll give you Tom’s reason’s summarised and then relate them to my client and the answers I gave her. Read More
About 6 months ago, I embarked upon my first project management of an SEO web build. As a Freelance SEO Copywriter, the building of websites is not usually my domain and that was a state of affairs that I was perfectly happy with, but the boss said project manage and so project manage I did. Well, I tried. Read More
Both as an in-house marketer and as a freelance seo consultant, over the last 8 years, to a greater or lesser extent, I’ve always included a content marketing strategy in the online marketing efforts I carry out, whether it be to benefit SEO, social media marketing, to include in email marketing, or just to engage more with the audience that hits the website I’m working with. At the start of my time in online marketing nobody called it content marketing, we referred to it as online PR, or just blogging, later it become more sophisticated with other forms of content being included and it becomming more strategic and in the last few years everyone’s been calling it content marketing. Read More
The above photo was taken by the fantastic photographer Liz Henson.
We’re pleased to announced our wonderful wordsmith, Rachel Weinhold, will be the main speaker at the next Valley at Work networking event. Read More
The Content Creation MachineAt the beginning of December, I wrote a little blog post about Google and the Law of Unintended Consequences, a phenomena of which Google seem to be particularly susceptible to. I did promise you a Part 2 to that Part 1 however and, as I am a woman of my word, voila!
In Part 1, I discussed the fact that a lot of Google’s algorithm updates/changes – whilst they do deal with certain issues and advance Google’s goal of providing the searcher with the best search results – nevertheless have unintended consequences, which themselves affect the practicalities of search marketing and the implementation of SEO.
One such unintended consequence that has far reaching implications and has greatly shaped the world of SEO lately is the formation of the ever hungry content creation machine. In fact, this is possibly the one biggest factor that rules my life as a Freelance SEO Copywriter; it is both the blessing that acquires work to keep me writing and the curse that chains me to this never ending treadmill of having to constantly create new and interesting online content.
The biggest aspect of SEO now is content creation and it is the one universal piece of advice that we give to every client, no exceptions. Basically, if you want your website to rank highly in the SERPs, whatever your field or business sector, you can no longer just build a lovely shiny new website and then leave it static. Oh no, in this crazy world we currently inhabit, to a greater or lesser degree, you have to regularly generate new, original content and upload it to your site.
You know this, I have written many a blog about this already, but how have we got into this situation? Read More
In a world where link acquisition has become a costly, dangerous and generally frustrating business, a content marketing strategy can seem like the obvious solution to your seo requirements; but it’s a long term strategy which success is measured in terms of years and not weeks, so you’ve got to ask yourself if it’s the right strategy for you and if it is be sure you can stick it out when you’re seeing limited (if any) returns. Read More
Shock horror, Google (only the biggest search engine in the world) is still the biggest source of traffic to your website! Well blow me over backwards. ‘So why are you writing this silly and obvious blog post then?’ I hear you cry! It’s because this headline has been haunting my social media feeds over the past couple of days and the need to get up on my soap box has been slowly creeping up on me again. Lucky you!
This particular episode started on Tuesday 11th November 2014, when that old favourite of mine, Matt Southern, wrote a little blog post for Search Engine Journal, called Google News Continues To Drive More Traffic Than Facebook, in which he in turn referenced another blog post on Digiday, called Google News: still a major traffic driver.
Both of these articles are well written and really interesting so I’m not going to spend my time here repeating them, as you’re all perfectly capable of reading them for yourselves. Having said that, in order to give you a bit of context, I will just have to briefly summarise their main points. Read More
A couple of weeks ago I published Part One of my two part blog on social media and I know that you’ve all been waiting ever since with breath that is baited so, to put you out of your misery, here is Part two. You can thank me later. Read More
I was planning to write a little blog post on Goole’s latest Penguin update and its influence on the good old backlink, but I’ve had one or two tweets in my twitter column over the past couple of days about the threat of Negative SEO so I thought, as the two are linked, I’d treat you to an article about that instead (with a heavy dose of Penguin and backlinks thrown in for good measure!). I know, don’t all thank me at once. Read More
The crazy world of SEO was thrown into a state of panic on 20th May 2014, when Matt Cutts declared on his Twitter page that “Google is rolling out our Panda 4.0 update starting today”. Admittedly, I was on holiday when this sacred announcement was made, sipping a cocktail from the free bar whilst reclining by the pool, so the initial frenzy passed me by somewhat. I know what you’re thinking; ‘what relevance can the holiday have to the algorithm update’? It has none; I only mention it to make you jealous! Read More
Everybody knows that in this day and age, if you want to have a successful business, you need to have a website. Everybody knows this and everybody has one. But whether you do it yourself or pay someone else to do it for you, designing and building your website is only the very beginning. You now have to fill your shiny new website with lots of lovely information about your business and then get it to rank in the search engine results pages so that people will actually see it. Read More
Google is on a mission. Yes, I know what you’re thinking; world domination. Although it may seem like that at times, Google’s more laudable raison d’être, so they would have us believe, is to provide the multitudinous users of the World Wide Web with access to the most accurate information and the most unique and original content. Read More
I’ve been in the SEO game for a long time now and over the last few years the buzz words semantic search has been banded about, however it’s not until recently (post launch of hummingbird), that I’ve really come to see an impact, forcing me to pause to think about how this will change my role as a search marketer and in turn how I write content as an seo copywriter. Read More
Hi, my name’s Rachel and I’m a Freelance Copywriter based in Bacup, Lancashire. Whatever your copywriting needs, whether it be a regular blog post or quality copy for your website, I can help you achieve your goals.
I work closely with Simon Dalley to create the kind of copy your website needs to get it to the top of the rankings. I can write regular blog posts for your business to provide your website with regularly updated content or I can provide a complete re-write of your website’s content to ensure detailed and interesting copy that will entice visitors to your site and help build those all important links.
Working from home, I have complete flexibility about my working hours so can be available at any time that suits the customer. I am always available during standard office hours but I can also be contacted in the evenings or during the weekends should clients require a more flexible approach. This means that I can easily work around full diaries, prior engagements or can accommodate different time zones.
I am happy to converse with clients via email, Skype or telephone but can also arrange face to face meetings if required. I find it crucial to work closely with clients to ensure that the work produced reflects the client’s needs and is a true projection of their business. I am happy to liaise closely with clients and with third parties independently to create a collaborative body of work that is both interesting and functional.
As a freelance copywriter I have written on many varied subjects in the past and am always keen to tackle new projects. Having previously covered a range of subjects in my writing, I have a wealth of knowledge that I can often apply to my work. I love learning and researching unfamiliar subjects though, so will happily take on any business or sector, even if I have not written on it in the past. Clients can be satisfied in the knowledge that my research will be thorough and my writing will be informed and knowledgeable.
What’s more, with an English degree under my belt and years of experience in a variety of writing styles, I can guarantee that my copy will be well written with correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. I can also tailor the tone and style of the writing to suit the needs of individual clients.
All in all, I am confident that I can provide you with a top class copywriting service so, if you would like any further information, or want to discuss your copywriting requirements, then please either phone me on 07495 181007, email me at rachelweinhold@msn.com or use the contact form to get in touch.
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