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Posted on 3 Apr at 5:57 am
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SEO Copywriter UK Freelance Consultant

 

I feel that copywriting skills are directly attributed to a personality from a young age. Writing 500 words for an eCommerce store that sells futons and beds sounds boring – however, it appears that I am able to demonstrate a natural knack at ‘fluffing out’ words to curate Skyscraper Content of 3,000 words for Google rankings.

I first started my digital marketing back in the year 2004 when I was selling 12″ DJ Vinyls on eBay very successfully as I cracked the ranking algorithm of the giant auction website.

With this knowledge, I applied this to several websites as a Digital Marketing Head for several companies including Funky Pigeon with huge Google success. Writing SEO content always got me in the zone; please don’t disturb me, I’m focussed.

SEO Training, Freelance Content Writing and That Copy Girl

During lockdown of 2020 my business portfolio doubled in 6 months. I had been in talks with Weston-super-Mare college to hire an apprentice, but COVID put the ice on that idea.

I was struggling hard, it’s crazy to turn away paying clients when you know you can help and they are waving money at you. For 12 months I worked 7 days a week, it was lockdown anyway, so who cares?

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During this super heavy workload period, I realised a lot of my time was taken up by copywriting and it occured to me – clients send me their copy for niche blogs that I can’t write for, to tweak and fluff into Google SEO content is easy for me but I needed to focus on a lot of technical SEO tasks.

I’d taken on a client with multiple websites, my first job was migrating a domain with SEO in mind. It turned out to be a rocky journey as the client was swamped with work himself and often I was waiting 24 hours for email responses.

Another multiple-site client contacted me with a time sensitive new website launch and needed copy about landscape gardening. I logged onto People Per Hour and began my search.

I met Suzie – That Copy Girl – on the freelancing website where I’ve been winning contracts since 2008. To date I’ve earned more than 390 reviews – all 5 star – and it’s a gateway for clients to trial my services and vice versa.

Suzie delivered my 500 words about landscape gardening and when I read her writing flow, I saw myself.

Delivering SEO Training since 2008

So, this is like love at first sight. Honestly, hear me out. In my career I’ve invoiced thousands of clients, and delivered thousands of hours’ worth of SEO Training via Zoom and Skype.

I could tell within 4 seconds that the copy supplied would only need a few tweaks, so I offered to exchange services for free copywriting for SEO lessons.

Suzie is a freelance SEO copywriter, UK based in Lincolnshire. Following several wine dates over Zoom, we evolved our relationship naturally from client – subcontractor to client – partnership. We have collaborated over the years and have effectively created a dynamic relationship based on honest feedback, knowledge sharing and humour.

This is why I’m proud to announce my partner in crime who I strongly recommend for ongoing SEO campaigns in the UK.

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Freelance SEO Copywriter – My Journey by Suzie Eglon

The world of freelancing can be a scary place to find yourself. It’s easy for doubts to creep in giving you that dreaded imposter syndrome no matter how well versed you are in your career. Without colleagues to bounce ideas off, give an opinion on your nightmare project or champion your latest success it’s difficult to be focused and motivated especially when the business you’re writing for requires a strong call to action to be featured and needs guidance with their brand tone of voice.

I was fairly new to the world of freelancing and gigging on People Per Hour when I saw a project that caught my eye, “2 website content pages 400 words each”, I sent my proposal and heard back within minutes, I’d won the gig and after a quick chat with the poster, I set to work and had completed the first within around an hour and a half. Oh, Sh*t! The little voice of doubt in my head compelled me to check in, so I sent the first article to be assessed before carrying on to the second.

It was the first time we had worked together I wanted to check Nina was happy before I carried on. She confirmed approval of my content, plus I felt boosted by the feedback (top tip, shush your inner worrier and ask for feedback every time) I smashed out the second article and have never looked back.

I’ve been in marketing for years, both corporate and for small businesses and for all I understood about branding the importance of staying on brand, targeting the right potential customers and keywords/ hashtags, I didn’t actually know how to make the most of these with regard to search engines ranks. Nina has taught me how, when and why to use keywords and when, where and how not to.

We now get together over Zoom once a month on a Friday evening. It’s a great way to welcome the weekend

Suzie continues: “I’ve been in marketing for years, both corporate and for small businesses and for all I understood about branding the importance of staying on brand, targeting the right potential customers and keywords/ hashtags, I didn’t actually know how to make the most of these with regard to search engines ranks.”

Nina has taught me how, when and why to use keywords and when, where and how not to.

We now get together over Zoom once a month on a Friday evening, with wine obviously, and go through the various projects we’ve each got on before we choose one project to advance my SEO skills.

For anyone who’s thinking of training in SEO, you can’t get better than Nina. There’s no silly industry jargon, she explains everything in the plainest, no-nonsense terms and has the patience to make sure you understand before moving on to the next step. She has a knack for knowing just when to take your training to the next level so there’s no wasted time but nor is there a feeling of being rushed which would just lead to frustration and inevitably disappointed clients.

Nina wants you to get it right, first-time, every time and makes sure you’re ready to do that before progressing to the next level. She has high standards and that inadvertently rubs off on you. If you love straight talking, you’ll adore Nina.”

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Together we offer a 360° Google, Bing and Search Engine website optimisation service as a team. We are constantly chatting throughout the week, discussing mutual clients and forging a battle plan for individual cases.

Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin

This plugin, created by WordPress consultant and developer Joost de Valk, has emerged as the go-to SEO tool for beginner WordPress users.

What I like is the framework it offers on the page, post, and media library to improve the attributes used by search engines to rank pages.

I feel the greatest feature is Bulk Editor. I also feel that not enough people know about this time-saving and handy tool. It’s very effective when you want to manually write your meta descriptions and meta titles (aka Meta Data). I use a copy and paste system to enable me to rewrite 60 pages and blog posts’ meta titles and descriptions in as little as 60 minutes.

In notepad I create a string of keywords which is the base of the copy and paste – as every meta field should be handwritte, simply add a unique identifying word at the end of each meta title.

When using Yoast it will ask you for a target keyword in the snippet area. Use one or two keywords only – avoid using more than two keywords. Personally, I refer to this as a Search Phrase, which is made up of keywords.

That Copy Girl Suzie continues: Making the transition from copywriter to SEO Copywriter has made such a huge difference in my overall copy work, even social media content.

It’s become so embedded in my psyche that it’s now a natural process I don’t have to wrack my brain and I know for a fact that it’s because Nina’s teaching style is natural and explanatory, there’s no way I could have learned everything I have from reading articles or books or watching endless YouTube videos.

Taking on the role of mentor (lord help her) Nina pushes me to do better. She encourages me to go further and step out of my comfort zones and supports me to be able to do just that. Having her as a mentor means I’m accountable and it certainly helps me to be more disciplined. It’s easy to become complacent with any job and working from home, alone, can lead to laziness and a do it later attitude but knowing Nina will be bitterly disappointed if I don’t pull my finger out, gets me out of those moments and drags my hands to the keyboard.

I never set out on my freelance journey to become an SEO copywriter and I definitely didn’t expect to find someone who put their trust in me so much to take me under her wing, teach me new skills and mentor me throughout my journey but I’m sure glad I responded to that original advert and didn’t let that annoying little voice of doubt win.




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    Keywords

    First, chose only one keyword or keyword phrase for the post. Do not pile up keywords like we did back in the 20th Century, it doesn’t work like that anymore.  By using the Google Keyword tool, you’ll get ideas on what keywords are hot search items.Next, write a post of at least 300 words. That’s the minimum to make search engines see that there is something worth crawling.Use your keyword at least five times in your 300+ word post, starting with the first sentence. Be sensitive to pluralities, though. “Plugin” and “plugins” are two different keywords.Put your keyword in the title of the post, which will automatically place it in the permalink, or the page’s URL.

    Using WordPress SEO

    Now scroll down to the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin, just below the Edit Post box. Yoast has already presumed your title and has pulled your first sentence as the description in the Snippet Preview. This preview is how your post will look in the Search Engine Results Page (SERP).Enter your keyword in the Focus Keyword field and watch the plugin think of possible suggestions.Tabbing away, you get a list of five areas where the plugin expects to see the keyword: Article Heading, Page Title, Page URL, Content, and Meta Description.If you have done the above correctly the first four criteria should say Yes in green.SEO Title is automatically filled in based on your title. However, this title can be changed to suit your taste as long as it retains your keyword. Watch the title change in the Snippet Preview as you type. Note that changing the Yoast title does nothing to alter your post title, so don’t worry about that. Finally, Yoast reminds you, “The title display in search engines is limited to 70 chars,” and tells you how many characters are left.Next insert the Meta Description. These 156 characters are what appear under your Page title and URL on the SERP. You can copy and paste an evocative sentence or two from the content that includes the keyword or write anything else with the keyword. If it goes over the 156 character maximum, the description trails off with ellipses….The Meta Description doesn’t need to reflect the content, but it must include the keyword.Of all these fields, only the SEO Title and the Meta Description are inserted as meta tags. The others are automatic and the Focus Keyword list just shows you that your keywords are lined up properly.

    Page Analysis

    Ok, so the list shows that your keywords are where they belong so you get a little green ball in your Publish box. Are you done yet? No.Click on Page Analysis to learn more about what you can do to optimize the post.In my example, I see that the only bad thing – indicated by the red ball – is my post’s lack of images.The middling problems – indicated by the yellow ball – included no links, a too-long meta description, a keyword that is not at the beginning of the page title, a page title that is below the 40 character minimum, and no subheading tags. My bad, must change.The green ball analysis looks great. I especially like when Yoast praises me for using a new keyword.

    Advanced Settings

    Many of the settings under advanced are set as default and may never need changing. However, if you don’t want the page indexed, or if you want the page to redirect somewhere, that can be changed here.

    Social Settings

    Here is where you can customize the Meta Description for your Facebook and Google+ posts. If left alone, your friends will see what’s in the General Meta DescriptionAnd that is how you use WordPress SEO by Yoast by Mari Kane
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