My 5 Favorite Website Copywriting Tips

How to make your words more persuasive and actionable.

Benjamin Watkins
4 min readDec 9, 2022
Photo by Ben Kolde on Unsplash

Websites are the lifeblood of businesses.

If your website’s messaging isn’t great, it makes your business appear:

  • Outdated
  • Confusing
  • Undesirable

Having worked on hundreds of websites and as a copywriter, I have five favorite website copywriting tips to improve conversions.

See how they can transform your website.

1. Test different headlines

90% of website headlines are ultra vague or utter shit.

They don’t promise value. They don’t make a promise to the prospect. They don’t compel action. They do absolutely nothing besides filling a page.

Your website needs a headline that compels action. Your readers want a headline that appeals to them emotionally and even logically.

So, how do you write a good headline? Steal these ideas:

  • Make a promise to the reader (Bring your business ideas to life for $1/month — Shopify)
  • Make the customer the hero (Go from $0 to $1 — Gumroad)
  • Say what you do and who you do it for (Banking built

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Benjamin Watkins

Founder of ThisIsCopy.com | Health Tech Copywriter | Copywriting examples at https://laviebenrose.substack.com/. Dad of five adventurous kids..