SEO and content writing tips: Week ending Feb. 25, 2014

You’ll have so many people landing on your landing page, there won’t be enough room!

Get more people to land on your landing pages – and fill out those forms – with the excellent landing page conversion tips in this week’s group of SEO writing tips!

Oh, and there’s a whole post just about the semicolon. (Yes, we’re a tribe of writing nerds and we’re proud of it!)

Enjoy this week’s content tips!

Content writing tips

Michael Aagaard writes Get Prospects to Say “Yes” With This Simple Landing Page Copy Hack for unbounce.

jackforde writes A Direct-Mail Designer’s Open Letter (to Copywriters) for Copywriters Roundtable.

Chloe Mason Gray writes 75 Resources for Writing Incredible Copy that Converts for KISSmetrics.

Carla Marshall writes 8 Tips for Writing Effective Video Marketing Scripts [Creator’s Tip 130] for ReelSEO.

Heather Lloyd-Martin writes It’s not a mindless waste! Writing lessons from TV for SEO Copywriting.

Promote your content

John Clark writes How A Simple Ask Garnered a 50% Increase in Facebook Page Likes in 48 Hours for Convince & Convert.

Anton Koekemoer writes How to start with a personal branding strategy using social media for memeburn.

Martin Shervington writes How to Encourage Google+ Fans to Share Your Content for Social Media Examiner.

Michael Stelzner writes Twitter Promotion, How to Encourage Others to Promote for You for Social Media Examiner.

Inspiration for writers

Jeff Goins writes The Very Best Way to Get Rejected Every Time for Goins, Writer.

In-house writing tips

John Carlton writes How To Hire A Copywriter. for The Rant. (Whoa – first time I’ve ever put a period in the middle of a sentence! Crazy.)

Help for freelance writers

Nathan Mendenhall writes Build Your Personal Brand for Social Media Today.

Writing tips for beginners

Liz Bureman writes The Poor, Misunderstood Semicolon for The Write Practice.

Amanda DiSilvestro writes Top 10 Tips on Writing Top 10 Lists for Search Engine Watch.

C.S. Lakin writes How To Write Well: 10 Essential Self-Editing Tips for Write to Done

Advanced SEO writing strategies

Felix Tarcomnicu writes How to Protect Your Website from Negative SEO for KISSmetrics.

Steve Webb writes How I Would Fix Grantland’s SEO: An In-Depth Audit for Web Gnomes.

Mike Sansone writes QuickSprout Website Analyzer – SEO and Speed Test for ConverStations.

Gianluca Fiorelli writes A New SEO Approach to Content Strategy for SEO Copywriting.

Jeff Sauer writes (Provided): 10 Ways to Prove SEO Value in Google Analytics for Moz.

SEO for beginners

Patricia McGinty writes SEO Impacts Everyone in Your Company, Not Just The Webmaster for Digital Marketing Institute.

Steve Morgan writes Google-Friendly Link Building Tactics For Online Sellers: My Online Seller Wales Talk for SEOno.

Patricia Redsicker writes 18 Social Media SEO Resources to Improve Your Search Ranking for Social Media Examiner.

Eric Enge writes Link Building in 2014 is All About Building Your Brand & Reputation for Search Engine Watch.

Lisa Toner writes SEO 101: The 5 Parts of Your Site You Should Keyword Optimize for HubSpot.

Mark Traphagen and Eric Enge post SEO 101 Through SEO 201 With Mark and Eric Hangout on YouTube.

Content marketing tips

David Rossiter writes 3 Branded Content Formats that Will Rule in 2014 for Content Marketing Institute.

Meg Sutton writes Content Curation & SEO: Do’s and Don’ts for Curata.

Jeremy Juhasz writes “Link Building” Can’t Get a Date to Prom for CopyPressed.

Barry Adams writes A Crossroads for Marketing – The Ethics of Neuromarketing for State of Digital.

Erik Stafford writes …You’ll Be Shocked At What Happened Next! (A Post About Viral Content) for ISOOSI.

Daniel Burstein writes Content Marketing: 9 examples of transparent marketing for Marketing Sherpa.

Oli Gardner writes The 3 Landing Page Mistakes That 98% of Marketers Are Making [Webinar Video] for Unbounce.

{grow} posts A Guide to Creating Content in Just 15 Minutes a Day.

David Kirkpatrick writes Content Marketing: Interviewing internal resources for Marketing Sherpa.

Amy C. Teeple writes Don’t just get customers – keep them for SEO Copywriting.

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Special thanks to Jesse McCarthy for programming a script that helps me format the roundup links in no time!

Photo thanks to Martina Rathgens (landing seagull)