May 2nd, 2008
And that’s the official word.
In layman’s terms, your website needs to offer real, useful, and original content in order to be picked up by that monstrous Google Bot.
Charles Dickens would have been delighted to have lived in this epoch, because in our era of e-commerce and the World Wide Web, copywriters for the web are actually making money. Or they ought to, at least, in the new scheme of things.
By the Google yardstick, e-commerce as we know it would come down flat on its face if it weren’t for the meticulous copywriters who organize and deliver competent, useful webpages for customers and clients to search, and for Google to index. With more and more businesses joining the WWW bandwagon to attract customers, the signs augur well for copywriting business. Undeniably, where advertising was the driving force of marketing two decades ago, it is web content that now creates the online market for a certain product or service.
April 9th, 2008
Copywriting was a part of print advertising. It has been employed as long as the written word has existed. When the earliest street hawkers called out slogans to sell their primitave wares in the streets of ancient Mesopotamia, the poetry and prose they used comprised the earliest copywriting.
After the advent of the printing press, copywriting assumed new importance as it was suddenly possible to distribute sales texts over large audiences. From verbal delivery to the written word, copywriting made possible the uniquely proactive communication of the salesperson.
With the advent of the Internet, however, the importance of copywriting exploded. Today, everything that is said, delivered or sold on the Internet involves a written selling pitch. Even audio visual aids such as online multimedia and video depend on the power of the sales message, the ultimate creation of the copywriter’s mind. Today, copywriting is the most powerful tool that can be employed to sell a product or a service, or to win an audience over to a particular point of view.