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2020 Volume 2 - Leverage Video and Search to Quickly Improve Your Website

5 Questions to Ask Yourself to Improve Your Web Copy

Jan 9, 2020, 06:00 AM by Mark Havelka
When writing copy to display on your website, it is important to consider these questions to ensure you are getting the most out of your web copy.

You may be wondering...

You may be wondering why it's important to talk about writing for the web. The simple answer is that we're not flipping through newspapers or magazines anymore for most the content we consume. We're tapping screens and swiping our fingers up, down, left, and right. What does this mean for what we're now currently used to?

“When creating sites, we act as though people are going to pour over every page...
but if we’re lucky, they just glance at each page, read some of the text, and click on
the first link that catches their interest.”

-Steve Krug, User Experience Professional, Author of “Don’t Make Me Think”

So what does this mean for "Creating Valuable Content?" At Vanguard, we’ve adopted and adapted the following questions when we create content for the web:

tags? Do you have the correct tags on this content?

to the page?

3. If I were to send this to a person in the target audience, will they understand it?

4. Is there a clear follow-up to what I’ve written?

5. about?

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5 Questions to Ask Yourself to Improve Your Web Copy

Jan 9, 2020, 06:00 AM by Mark Havelka
When writing copy to display on your website, it is important to consider these questions to ensure you are getting the most out of your web copy.

You may be wondering...

You may be wondering why it's important to talk about writing for the web. The simple answer is that we're not flipping through newspapers or magazines anymore for most the content we consume. We're tapping screens and swiping our fingers up, down, left, and right. What does this mean for what we're now currently used to?

“When creating sites, we act as though people are going to pour over every page...
but if we’re lucky, they just glance at each page, read some of the text, and click on
the first link that catches their interest.”

-Steve Krug, User Experience Professional, Author of “Don’t Make Me Think”

So what does this mean for "Creating Valuable Content?" At Vanguard, we’ve adopted and adapted the following questions when we create content for the web:

tags? Do you have the correct tags on this content?

to the page?

3. If I were to send this to a person in the target audience, will they understand it?

4. Is there a clear follow-up to what I’ve written?

5. about?

Remember...


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