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The Importance of Professional Website Copywriting

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Services for Real Estate Pros with Blue Inteactive Agency

When designing a website, many people want to cut corners when it comes to the copywriting that will appear on the website. While it is logical to assume that since you know your company best, you should best be able to write the content that appears on your website – however, there are many things about website copywriting that the average person may not be aware of. As follows are the reasons that you should employ a professional copywriter to create the content for your website:

1. Conversion Optimization. Conversion Optimization is a process of writing content in order to guide the visitor to the action that you want them to take or to at least stay on your website long enough to learn about your company and what makes your company special. Professional website copywriters are experts at appealing to the 4 different personality types and capturing your visitor’s attention. With the average attention span rapidly shrinking, the lack of good, well written copy will decrease the amount of visitors that turn into customers.

2. Call to Action. Professional copywriters understand the importance of working in a call to action within website copy. If somebody is on your website you want them to contact you immediately or at the very least submit their contact information to you so that you can add them to future marketing campaigns. If a visitor comes to your website and doesn’t call you or give you their contact information they might as well have never been there.

3. Web Content is read differently than Print Content. A good professional copywriter understands that web content is read in a much different way than any other medium. Eye tracking studies have shown that the average website visitor does not read web content in depth but rather skims it. Your website copy should have the most important points in bold and italics and heavily utilize bullet points to enable users to get to the point and move forward to take the action you want them to.

At Blue Interactive Agency we offer professional copywriting for website design, blogging, press releases, emails, pay-per-click campaigns, and much more. To learn how professional copywriting can improve your website conversion call us today at 954.779.2801.

Brian Schulman
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Lancaster PA - Lancaster, PA
Lancaster County PA RealEstate Expert 717-951-5552

I know you're right about readers skimming blogs, because I catch myself doing it.  Time is always in short supply.

Jun 27, 2008 03:03 AM
Margaret Mitchell
Coldwell Banker Yorke Realty - York, ME
Seacoast Maine & NH Real Estate

You made your point concisely and very well.  Thanks.

Jun 27, 2008 03:10 AM
Howard Wilson
Wilson Than Real Estate - Santa Monica, CA

Thanks for your post. I hope enough people will find it and implement your advice into their own blog posts.  I'm surprised that so many people trying to create a professional blog turn it into a personal blog (virtually an online journal).

Jun 27, 2008 03:18 AM
Ken Jansen
Prime Development Land CO LLC - Overland Park, KS
REALTOR, CRS, 913.908.2215

Hi - this is my 3rd comment on your stuff. I should have read more before I started commenting. Good stuff. Copywriting and  conversion are my next two big hurdles.

my site is www.kenjansenrealestate.com I have decent SE placement for some of my key words, but I am not getting the conversion I am looking for. I know as I progress with my SEO strategy my traffice will increase, but I would like to  have my conversion rate higher before I miss 1000 or more visitors.

Thanks! I will keep reading your stuff this weekend.

Ken

Sep 06, 2008 01:05 PM
Anonymous
Kristy Sullivan

 Thanks Ken for reading my blog and taking the time out to interact with me. To answer your questions, the most common questions people have about a specific area or subdivision are normally answered on a realtor's website, however, in most cases they can be formatted differently to be found easier and to keep the reader's attention.

Your questions about how to start a PPC campaign and how to get the conversion you are looking for involve multiple actions.  It is important for you to be made aware that a large percentage of people who attempt to launch and run their own pay per click campaign fail, losing money that could have been invested elsewhere to further their business endeavors.

while I cannot spill all of my secrets, I will tell you that it is always a smart decision to hire an interactive marketing company to fine tune your online visibility, maintain your interactive marketing needs, track your conversion rates and to keep you current with online marketing trends.  It is entirely possible to find an affordable interactive marketing company that may even be less of an expense than attempting your own PPC campaign, and they will do all of the worrying and work for you!  Thanks again Ken, look forward to hearing from you.

Sep 08, 2008 02:08 AM
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