The Creative Copywriter Academy – The Freelance Copywriter Kickstarter Course

Course Detail

Salepage:

What You Get:

COURSE 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO COPYWRITING

The theoretical underpinnings of writing for business

COURSE 2: SUPERSTYLIN’

The stylistic techniques that create powerful copy

COURSE 3: THE DISCOVERY STAGE 101

Managing the client relationship to get the best brief

COURSE 4: THE DISCOVERY STAGE: THE BRAND

Branding, marketing, and the audience

COURSE 5: MORE ADVANCED STRATEGIES & SEO

The skills that turn great copy into all-singing, all-dancing copy

COURSE 6: THE MOST COMMON COPYWRITING GIGS

The hows, whys, and what’s of the top three copywriting jobs

COURSE 7: SETTING UP SHOP

All you need to set yourself up as a freelance copywriter

COURSE 8: GETTING GIGS / MARKETING YOURSELF

Mastering the art of winning jobs in the real world

What is SEO Traffic?

There are two types of website traffic:

Organic traffic: This is traffic that you don’t pay for directly. It includes people who click through to your website from your social media pages, your email newsletter, Google’s search results, and so on.

Paid traffic: This is traffic that you pay for directly. It includes people who click pay-per-click (PPC) ads, as well as those who hear about you through influencer marketing, newsletter or podcast sponsorships, and other forms of paid advertising.

SEO stands for search engine optimization, and is a process of optimizing your website with the goal of ranking higher on search engine results pages (SERPs) and ultimately increasing traffic.

In theory, the term SEO refers to all search engines, but in practice, it’s Google that matters most as they have an 87.35% share of the search market, with Bing being a very distant second at 5.53%, and Yahoo taking third place with 2.83% of the market.

SEO traffic is organic traffic that comes from search engines, in other words, people who typed a keyword or query into Google, looked through the search results, and then clicked through to your website.

Note that this doesn’t include paid search engine traffic, meaning those who entered a query into a search engine, and then clicked on your PPC ad that was displayed above the search results.

You can monitor organic traffic from SEO using tools like Google Analytics and Google Search Console. If you want to learn more about these tools, check out our guides on SEO Analytics and SEO Tracking.

Why Is SEO Traffic So Important?

Organic traffic comes from your online assets such as your social media following, your email newsletter, and your blog.

As you probably know, these assets take time to build, but over time the traffic you generate can often be much less expensive than paid traffic.

For example, it takes time to get a blog off the ground, but if you keep at it, the organic traffic can start to grow exponentially. Aas your SEO traffic grows over time, this means you may be able to reduce your paid advertising budget (or even eliminate it entirely!).

It’s important to keep in mind that SEO traffic isn’t free. You will need to either create content yourself, in which case you have to consider the cost of your time, or hire someone to create it for you.

However, you should see this as an investment, since content that ranks well on Google can generate traffic for years with minimal additional effort on your part (you may want to keep it updated, though).