How to Become a Buckinghamshire Copywriter

It's been tough for copywriters from Great Britain these last years. Keeping the jobs flowing in has been pretty tough during the worst downturn since the 1930s.

It was once so simple, remember? In the noughties, life as a freelance copywriter was a giggle. You could get your website on page one of Google, either naturally or unnaturally. If you were a dab hand at SEO, you could do well in the organic listings, or if not, it was always possible to pay a few quid to Google Adwords and find yourself on page one. Either way, life was a breeze, the inbox was a rising tide and the phone rang off the hook. Today, things are different. Adwords is dog eat dog, and the only ones clicking your small ads are charlatans looking for SEO content at three dollars a go.

It's time to engage Plan B. Let's be honest, how often do you meet new clients as a freelance copywriter? Pretty rarely, yes? So that means you can work with anyone, anywhere, using Skype and email. It's simply a matter of finding them. Here's how.

Let's assume you want to work with businesses in Buckinghamshire. Local businesses will always be on the lookout for the most suitable freelance copywriter for their work - not the one who can breeze into their offices at a moment's notice.

So, you can target those Buckinghamshire businesses in one or two ways. The first will cost a few pennies. The other won't.

The one that costs money involves tweaking your pay-per-click account to invite clicks for geographical keywords like 'copywriter Buckinghamshire' and €copywriting Buckinghamshire'.

All well and good. But you can save money by attracting a similar number of clicks and spending only time. You need to prepare a customised landing page that talks about copywriting and copywriters in Buckinghamshire. Tell local Buckinghamshire businesses how they can work remotely with your copywriting business.

If you're based further north, you could even be cheeky and explain that you're more affordable than Buckinghamshire copywriters because you don't have a huge Buckinghamshire mortgage to pay.

Next: optimise your page. You should use longtail geographical keywords about Buckinghamshire copywriting in your H1 headline and H2 tags. As for keyword density, go for about 5% on a page of 350 or 400 words, so around 20 of your words will be keywords.

Last but not least, get yourself some decent backlinks by writing articles for articles sites like this one relevant to your ' copywriter Buckinghamshire ' pages. Then sit back and smile as you watch your landing page shoot up the North face of Google.