Web content
Working on Your Keywords
When we create a new website, we begin by getting to know our client and the organization the website will be introducing. We plan the site architecture and get to work on the design. Along with these actions, we come up with the keywords we’ll work on first, with the primary content of the website.…
Finding Your Customers
In general, the object of a web site is to allow your customers to find you. You make your site eminently findable with good SEO and SEM, make sure it says what you need your customers to know about you, and get on with your work. But it occasionally happens that your customers don’t actually…
Purpose: What’s Your Website For?
Whether you’re having your first website built, spiffing up one you’ve had for a long time, or creating a strategy to get the most out of your current website, it’s good to think occasionally about your website’s purpose. Chances are good that it does — or should do — all three of the things described…
Floating Along with Your Website
It’s the nature of my job that I’m usually working on building sites or rebuilding them. But one of the great things about a website is that it will continue to work for you even when you’re not working on it. With you or without you, your well-designed and optimized website will do its…
How Long Should Your Web Content Be?
I taught college writing for decades, so I’m very familiar with those words: “How long does it have to be?” The correct answer: “As long as it needs to be.” This is the right answer for web content, too — with a little difference. While for a research paper or an essay, the rule is…
Is Your Website Too Wordy?
Is your website too wordy? Can a website be too wordy? The big problem with the term “wordy” is that it means different things to different people… at different times.