FREE - 5-Step SEO Copywriting Workflow by Bridget Willard

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Hey, Bridget Willard here with BridgetWillard.com. Are you wondering how I write? What is my SEO framework? My, my SEO workflow is. I bet you would like that. Free, free, free thing about SEO framework. Not a framework, but a workflow.

So. Why is SEO important? SEO is important because you want people to know that you're in business. You want people to know that you're an authority in your field. You want people to know that you have expertise and you want people to know that you are trustworthy. So no matter how you call it, whether it's E A T or T E A -- either way, those three letters are really important when you talk about S E O. Acronyms all day long. And I was just chatting with my friend, who said, I don't even know what SEO means. And I told her, it just means being found on the internet.

So what does that entail? First of all, you need to understand what your business focus is. What are you trying to get people to do once they get to your website? That is a super important aspect, because here's the thing. Um, if you don't understand that -- here's Diesel -- if you don't understand what it is that you want people to accomplish, then you won't look for the right questions or the right, uh, keywords and everything like that. And you want the right keywords, right? Keyword Diesel Cat says "yes, keywords matter, but what matters more long tail keywords."

What's the best long tail keyword. Bridget, I will tell you, it is a question. Because people are using Siri, Google, Alexa, voice search, to get you to understand, oh, what is the net worth of Diesel The Cat? You know, when is the next NBA game? Why is it important for me to have a plumber who replaces the wax seal every time the toilet is unmounted from its seat? Right? These are all important questions. So I know you're waiting, you're waiting so patiently for the SEO Workflow.

The SEO Workflow is simple.

First of all, what questions do you get in your business all of the time? This is super important to think of. So are people asking you what your hours are? Are people asking you what you do? Have you defined a layman's term versus industry term glossary? So for example, are you calling it a, an assisted living facility, a type B assisted living facility? But maybe the vernacular or the colloquial term is care home or residential care home. Right? Are you calling it a glulam beam? Yeah, that's what it's called, but people might call it a header or an exposed beam, right? They don't necessarily know what the glulam, um, means. I mean, once you define it, it's fine. So you want to use the same phrasing as your customer.

And the why is this hard?

This is hard because we -- are are you ready? -- we are not our customers. And, and as industry experts, whatever industry you're in, we are most often in our own way. That's the hard part. So you want to ask questions. Now I bet you're wondering -- four minutes in, you got to meet the cat -- what is going on with your free SEO workflow for copywriting? Well, I'm gonna give it to you. Are you ready? So you just have to understand why you're doing this first.

So the first thing I do is I go into Google on my machine. I am not doing a screen share 'cause you guys could do that on your own and they're super boring. But I open my machine and I type in a question. Now, if you type in a question, Google's gonna auto complete it. So for example, um, you can ask, "when do I replace the wax seal on my toilet?" Now, Google may give you different variations of that because it's suggesting the rest of your question. That is a question that contains a long-tail keyword. And since 99% of the internet is not on the first page of a search, you really want these long tail keywords.

And don't forget that search is idiosyncratic. Meaning everybody who searches gets results based upon the browser they're in, uh, the, the query they're using. So there might be on Yahoo. People still search on Yahoo. I don't know if is AOL still around? I just saw some AOL email addresses the other day. Um, people use Opera, they use Bing. They use GoDuckGo for search. They use something else. There was something else I saw. So there's a lot of different browsers and most browsers have a, um, their own search. But when I say browser, it makes me think of The IT Crowd of Jen and the button for the internet. Microsoft, Microsoft Explorer. That was, those are the days, right? So the way that you get on the internet or the way you search for things, isn't a browser if you're asking Alexa, Siri, Google, et cetera, then that is its own browser. Like, "Hey Alexa, what's the best place to buy a toilet?" Or "Hey Alexa, should I use an elongated toilet or a round toilet?"