Written By Barbara K. Mednick, Online PR Expert

White papers, e-newsletters, blogs, digital magazines and e-books – all of these are different forms of online PR. While news releases are a key tool in the online PR toolbox, these other digital tools (sometimes also called “content marketing”) are a powerful way to communicate directly with buyers.

You’ve got great content and share it with your audience through your own blog. You make sure you write with the keywords in your mind. You optimize your pages for those keywords. You build links for that page and use the same keywords in the anchor text of the links. You do all sorts of techniques, but you’ll not appear on the first page of search engine result pages (SERPs)! Is this online marketing method not working for you?

How Else Can You Bring in Targeted Traffic?

Search Engine Optimization seems to be the solution, but you’ve tried it and has not seen the result YET. It may be because:

Bob McClain has enriched Site Booster blog with his weekly posts on website copywriting. His content has always been different from other so-called web copywriting articles trying to introduce this highly crucial method of online marketing. Personally, I always enjoyed his posts as I learned something new for my content creation.

The reason I’m telling you this is that he has provided more than was expected from him and now his collection of posts can be a powerful knowledge base for those who would like to learn how to write for the web to turn their online businesses into a magnetic pole to attract and convert potential customers. On behalf of all readers of Site Booster blog’s Saturday posts, I would like to thank him for the precious job he has done.

Written by Bob McClain, Web Copywriting Expert

If you own a business, you should be publishing. Publishing what, you ask? Publishing everything imaginable! Ebooks, newsletters, white papers, Power Point presentations, podcasts, videos, articles, blog posts, guest blog posts (like this one) and anything else your fertile mind can come up with.

Why?

Because the more content you spread across the Internet (with links back to your website), the more places there are for people to find you. Any Internet Marketer will tell you it’s a simple numbers game. The more eyes you get your information in front of, the more business you will get.

As a result of remodeling Site Booster’s business plan, we’ve decided to create a lot more content on online marketing methods and invite more guest authors to write for this blog. Over the last year, the guest authors have written on different web marketing topics and provided a good wealth of information on Twitter marketing and web copywriting. Many including the authors have benefited from the posts.

There are several different online marketing methods to boost your site business and increase the exposure of your site on the web, particularly on the search engines. We’ve set our goal to further create helpful content on different related topics. To further announce this on the web, Site Booster has published the following PRs on this opportunity:

Written by Bob McClain, Web Copywriting Expert

As a website copywriter, I’ll admit that my prejudice is to consider graphics just the pretty stuff on the page. Like most writers, I want to believe that only the writing is important and that you could dress a website up in a burlap sack and my words could still sell ice cubes to Eskimos.

However, if a world where 60% of the people are visual and aren’t willing to read a lot of copy no matter how brilliantly it’s written, there are times when copywriting shouldn’t be the first priority.

Written by Bob McClain, Web Copywriting Expert

Freebies are a great way to get people on your side. It also helps create a feeling of indebtedness to the person you gave the freebie to. Are you using freebies as one of your copywriting secrets?

How to use freebies…

There are a number of ways to use freebies to get business from your website. I have a 38 page downloadable Online Marketing Primer on my website. I offer it free to download with no request for contact information.

Have you ever felt frustrated because one method of online marketing, which you’re using, doesn’t work the way you expect? Have you given up on online marketing altogether? Think twice before you are drowned in dismay as there’s a hope.

Online Marketing Channels to Try

If you are one of those website owners who would prefer to do one type of site promotion yourself, go on doing it and try to find out where you can improve the results. Get some expert consultation. Outsource it for better results. Do something, but never surrender! There’s another solution for all of you:

Written by Bob McClain, Web Copywriting Expert

For Part Ten of our Web Copywriting – Using Subliminal Persuasion series, in sort of a recap of everything, we’re going to talk about what kind of copywriting goes viral. In other words, what elements do you need to get people to spread your message organically?

Let’s first review our previous subliminal persuasion posts:

Written by Bob McClain, Web Copywriting Expert

It’s amazing to me how many times I’ve read website copy and shook my head because I couldn’t understand what they were talking about. Writing website copy requires a clear and simple purpose.

There are many things that can cause copy to be unclear or just plain confusing. Here are a few of these website copywriting faux pas:

•    Using clichés
•    Using colloquialisms
•    Using lengthy sentences or run-on sentences
•    Never getting to the point
•    Never asking for the sale
•    Using technical jargon
•    Using big words
•    Disorganized writing