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To Click Here, or Not to Click Here: That Is the SEO Question.

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Today, I’m delighted to introduce a guest post by one of my favourite bloggers, web and social media expert Brad Shorr of Word Sell, Inc. Regular readers will know that here at goodcopybadcopy we like extremely detailed discussions of business vocab, but even I had never guessed that there was so much to know about those two little words “click here”. Thanks, too, to Brad for introducing me to the phrase “link juice”. Read on, Macduff.

To sleep: perchance to dream – click here.

Did you click on the link just above? Weren’t you itching to? That’s the power of the much debated “click here” link. (more…)

Gender versus sex – why you should observe the difference

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Filling in a form recently (I don’t recall what for), I was asked to state my gender. The question was particularly puzzling as all I was given was a box in which to insert M or F.

It’s not the first time I’ve noticed this use of the word “gender” when what the author intended was (avert your eyes now if you’re of a sensitive disposition) “s-e-x”. (more…)

Please bear with me!

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

I am upgrading the site so please bear with me if you spot any glitches! I hope to have them all fixed soon.

Monday, October 9th, 2006

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Friday, October 6th, 2006

When I left full-time employment to set up my own writing business, I found that the one thing I missed about office life was having an audience for my rantings about the English language – and its ever increasing abuse. Hence, this blog.