The Basics of Web Content Writing

Online business has never been any hotter and every entrepreneur’s target is to make their endeavor look more appealing than others. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is by web content writing. A piece of web content refers to an article, a blog, or another text-based material which can be used to increase a company’s online visibility and reputation. It can also function as a...

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5 Things to Do Before Becoming a Freelance Copywriter

Are you thinking of going full-time freelancing? I know how you feel. I was exactly like that perhaps a year or two ago (that’s because I went on an on and off freelancing stint). While I read a lot of blog posts and articles about becoming a freelance copywriter, I still committed a lot of mistakes when I finally gave it a try. I’m sharing some of my mistakes here and perhaps you might learn...

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What Is An SEO Content Writer?

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of optimizing a website so that the search engines can rank it highly. The higher your ranking is, the higher the possibility of people seeing and visiting your site. And as you know, this can lead to higher generation of income. Between these, an SEO content writer is the person who makes things possible. A web content writer creates blog entries,...

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Please, Think Twice (Even a Thousand Times) Before You Call Yourself a Writer

I would like to make a disclaimer. PinoyCopywriter.com is my blog. This is not a site where I’m offering writing services. Again, this is just a blog. I mentioned that because I have received job offers and even applications for a writing position. I kindly turned them all down. But there’s this one applicant that stood out from them all. He described himself, in his own words, as a...

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Understanding Why We Write

Why do we write? As a job? To earn a living? To express our thoughts and emotions? To share our knowledge? Or simply because we’re good at it? I first started to write creatively when I read Jules Verne’s “A Journey to the Center of the Earth”. It was science fiction that got me mesmerized into reading a novel or any fiction for that matter. For years I’ve tried to...

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Keep It Simple

This I found posted in an elevator: It says there: Decrease load or number of passengers in order to normalize Elevator operation. Does it take you too long to digest what that sentence was trying to say? I bet so. When we write sentences, most importantly if we are giving an instruction, be as simple and as direct as you can get. For that sentence I would rather rewrite it into: This elevator...

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