How blogger outreach can grow your copywriting business

Being a copywriter is a great way to flex your creative muscles while earning some money! It’s also a highly competitive market, and it can be difficult to start building a client base when you don’t have testimonials. One way to start building up your brand as a copywriter is through blogger outreach. This will not only help to promote your business but will also help you to develop insight into the industry and provide you with an indispensable network of contacts.

Tap into new audiences

Reaching out to an existing blog owner in a field that is relevant to you, and providing them with some excellent content can benefit you:

• You and that blogger will now have a professional connection, and you never know when that will pay off!
• Your work will be seen by that blogger’s audience. This is a great way of showcasing your work to a whole bunch of people.
• If the article includes a link to your site, this can help with your SEO ranking. We’ll come back to that in a moment.

Use blogs to tell you what people are thinking about

Copywriter Sophie de Albuquerque recommends blogging for aspiring copywriters as it is an excellent way to keep abreast of what people are talking about and interested in reading right now.

Write your own blog posts. You can connect with people, start conversations and even conduct research for your writing projects. Following other people’s blogs can help build a picture of what people are already talking about. And more importantly, spotting the gaps. These gaps are just ripe to be filled with your content!

Owning a blog filled with engaging and interesting content is a ringing endorsement of your skills as a writer. It also means you have work to showcase to prospective clients.

Build your domain authority

If your site is mentioned on relevant sites, this builds your domain authority, which in turn improves your search engine ranking. If trusted sites are talking about you, this tells Google that you have a good rapport. Therefore, your results will rank more highly.

It’s important to be careful when trying to build domain authority, however. Google is constantly refining it’s algorithms so that people who employ ‘black hat’ techniques and get their site mentioned by others by using unscrupulous methods are penalized. In order not to be penalized by Google, it’s important that the sites you are mentioned are actually relevant.

Carrying out the research to find relevant and trusted sites can be a huge undertaking, and you may find it beneficial to enlist the help of a blogger outreach agency to find the bloggers for you to target. As a bonus these agencies often already have working relationships with a huge proportion of the blogging community, so you won’t need to try and build a relationship from scratch.

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Bloggers are your clients

Reaching out to bloggers is hugely beneficial to writers because ultimately, those bloggers may well hire you! A good blog needs to be publishing new content frequently, and it can be difficult to keep up with this schedule. Many bloggers employ writers to help them to keep their content fresh and engaging, so it’s definitely worth making contact with them.