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7 Simple Website Copy Templates
Writing copy for your website is hard.
I remember listening to a ton of podcasts when I started freelancing. One episode was all about the importance of having a website. The big clients wouldn’t take me seriously if I didn’t have one. I’d never written website copy before, but I figured it couldn’t be that difficult.
Just tell people about me and what I do. I spent a few hours doing that and making it look as slick as I could.
Honestly, the end result was awful.
Anyone who stumbled upon those early versions of my site would run the other way.
I Googled “how to make a website” and learned what I could on the technical side, but never thought much about the wording. I knew how to string a sentence together and check for missing commas with Grammarly, so I could manage on my own.
Big mistake!
The wording, or copy, on the page was the most important thing. Especially since I was writing was the main service.
I went at it on my own and the website copy I wrote didn’t work at all.
Zero leads ❌
Zero new clients ❌
What I should’ve done is looked at websites that were working. I should’ve found other freelance writers who were ahead of me and…
