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    • EGOL
      EGOL @Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

      Great.  Glad you are interested.

      Everyday is copywriting day here.

      btw... if you are using Chrome, Grammarly will monitor your email, moz posts, wordpress, etc for improvements and you can accept them with a click.

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      • Andy.Drinkwater
        Andy.Drinkwater @EGOL last edited by

        if you are using Chrome, Grammarly will monitor your email, moz posts, wordpress, etc for improvements and you can accept them with a click.

        I am indeed! That will also be getting installed!

        Right now, I am just stunned at how much better the opening paragraph on my 'About' page now sounds! hemingwayapp absolutely rocks!

        That's me not sleeping tonight - I have a site to improve 😉

        -Andy

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        • EGOL
          EGOL @Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

          Great news.

          Using the combination of Hemingway, Grammarly and then sending the piece out to Scribendi can add two or more hours to the time required for me to produce an article plus $30, $50 or $70 to Scribendi, but my articles are so much better.

          If you publish on a site where the visitors are picky or erudite this is a good investment.  On a retail site, your most important sales pages should have a very low reading level with all problems chased out.

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          • T0BY
            T0BY @EGOL last edited by

            My goodness! Thank you, that slipped through the net!

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            • T0BY
              T0BY @Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

              Thanks Andy, it here http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-pair-of-Angel-Wings/

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              • T0BY
                T0BY @EGOL last edited by

                This is excellent advice, thanks!  I will look into this.

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                • T0BY
                  T0BY @T0BY last edited by

                  I just Hemingway'd my front page and it is certainly much simpler and more readable, thanks for the tip!

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                  • EGOL
                    EGOL @T0BY last edited by

                    Nice work!

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                    • ClaytonJ
                      ClaytonJ last edited by

                      Toby

                      I would keep the link.  It is a good link, indirect but worthy of keeping. Takes so much effort to get a link nowadays that I hold on to them like gold when I get one. I check links with open site explorer.

                      Moving away from content have you considered reviewing the title tag & h1. The word molded x 3 appears in the title and it does not appear 3 x relevant to search. ie more people are googling "custom" in the uk.  Your first paragraph is more empathetic to what customers are typing in than your title tag.  Semrush is a great tool to have a look at for keywords and there are countless articles on it.

                      https://moz.com/learn/seo/on-page-factors

                      A bit of a tweak with your title tag and h1 and that may also assist on search volume. It is a niche area so I think you could get some upside.

                      Hope this assists.

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                      • T0BY
                        T0BY @EGOL last edited by

                        Thanks, I owe you one big time!

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                        • T0BY
                          T0BY @ClaytonJ last edited by

                          That's very helpful, thanks!  I'll do that.

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                          • T0BY
                            T0BY @EGOL last edited by

                            I am going to go through and do this with all the main landing pages. Do you think it is worth also doing this with all of the blog  posts? I think there are about 50! I think the main problem will be complex sentences in these posts.

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                            • ClaytonJ
                              ClaytonJ @T0BY last edited by

                              Yes, ideally you go through them all.

                              Poor grammar is a barrier to customer conversion.  If a potential customer hits a barrier they know your competitor is only one click away.

                              Poor grammar = no trust.  Would you trust a site to post you a package that writes sentences that are not easily understandable?

                              It can be painful but I believe it is necessary, it is time consuming maybe consider outsourcing the copywriting - ie obtaining a third party to check / correct it all for you. Cheap options include Freelancer & Elance etc. It should not cost very much.

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                              • EGOL
                                EGOL @T0BY last edited by

                                I believe that the first paragraph is worth two hours.  Maybe more.

                                The current first paragraph sells your product short.  It still has several errors.

                                You are selling peace.  You are selling protection from noise.  You are selling protection from germs.  You are selling better observations of a person's health.  Each of these sells to many types of people, in many different environments, engaged in a variety of activities.  Some of them are of jugular importance.

                                Your product can be useful to every person who needs quiet, is exposed to loud or annoying noise, or needs to make careful observations.  Students in dormitories, workers at construction sites, a diversity of health care workers, auto mechanics, connoisseurs of fine music, and many others.  Your first paragraph blends these together with no distinction and does not personalize it for anyone.

                                Personalization is the key to making a sale.

                                Your opening statement might be one paragraph, two paragraphs, a paragraph and a bullet list.  I don't know.  But, don't think of it in terms of words on containers.  Think of it in what you want people to do.

                                What do you want people to do when they land on your homepage?   Your opening statements have the opportunity to appeal to the many types of people who enter the site, sort them into candidates for buying your several types of products, and send them to a new location where they can see the wonders of a product that is designed specifically for them.  This is very difficult work.

                                My honest opinion is that your homepage is far from ready.

                                How much time do you think I spend composing answers here in Q&A.  They might be read once, by someone in a hurry, who I do not know?  How much time should you spend to capture the attention of potentially thousands of people per month, for the next many years, selling products that you have spent countless hours creating?

                                Don't be in a hurry.  You should actually be making three or four different versions of your homepage, placing each of them in CrazyEgg, and seeing how people behave when they arrive.  Are they doing what you want them to do?

                                People at Scribendi can help you with your writing.  People at SiteTuners can help you get people to do what you want them to do.  I am just blathering to open your eyes.

                                It isn't ready.  It isn't close.  That's my opinion.  Two hours minimum.  Done in multiple versions, critiqued by smart people, tested on lots of visitors.

                                Good luck.

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                                • EGOL
                                  EGOL @T0BY last edited by

                                  I think the homepage needs more work.

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                                  • isaac663
                                    isaac663 last edited by

                                    The link is from a guest post correct?  I think these types of links have been largely devalued by Google, even from high D.A sites.

                                    Link doesn't seem remotely relevant either.

                                    +1 for John's response.  Some deep keyword research should help you 'tune' your copy, title tag etc to gain more relevant traffic.

                                    Isaac.

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                                    • CommT
                                      CommT @EGOL last edited by

                                      EGOL - you always have something brilliant to say. I salute you!

                                      Toby - you could pay a fortune for advice like EGOL has just given you for free, I really hope you take it on board.

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