Comments on: 258 UK Freelance Copywriter Homepages Examined (Including Yours?)

By: Eoin Alexander

Eoin Alexander — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:25:42 +0000

I’m a copywriter in Northern Ireland, too. My website ( http://oinkcopy.com ) only arrived this year so it didn’t exist when this research was done.

Surprised to hear Lou Rooney say most of her clients are from mainland UK, most of mine are from this side of the water. Anyway, keep up the good work!

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:16:26 +0000

Wow that’s an awesome piece of research. Maybe you should start doing it for websites in all industries? Now that would be a decent resource!

Nice job!

By: Chris Kenworthy

Chris Kenworthy — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:52:42 +0000

Just stumbled on this post while searching… I was thinking about moving to Brighton until I saw your map. Seriously! Having second thoughts now. Might just stay in Leeds. Quite a few of us copywriters up here in Yorkshire by the look of it but it still isn’t like the visual nosebleed down south.

By: I rewrote my website’s home page | Catherine Translates

I rewrote my website’s home page | Catherine Translates — Tue, 03 May 2011 11:55:17 +0000

[...] In the end, my home page consists of fewer than 100 words. (Apparently, UK copywriters have an average of 298 words on their home pages.) [...]

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:33:26 +0000

I’m a new starter here, and have set myself the task of writing a profile today. This not only helped, but it made me smile! Thank you. Now back to the profile…

By: Nicola Cooper-Abbs

Nicola Cooper-Abbs — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:42:55 +0000

Cor that’s a labour of love. But it’s great to see some insightful information about copywriters, maybe it’ll be the start of drawing our little community closer?

By: interesting, hmmm! | Vendibility

interesting, hmmm! | Vendibility — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:08:14 +0000

[...] It’s quite an interesting read, head on over. http://www.scribblemill.co.uk/uk-freelance-copywriter-websites/ [...]

By: Sean Quinn

Sean Quinn — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:21:02 +0000

Guess what, I’m a copywriter from Northern Ireland… and I haven’t met another freelancer here yet. We are rare (to find that is). Great to see so many other copywriters out there.
I’ve spoken to so many web designers who talk about SEO for their clients but amazingly they leave content copywriting to the client or chuck in some generalised drivel as an after-thought.. This is a huge opportunity for all of us. Google says content is the most important element of SEO. Lets make sure our clients know this, and be confident because we can help almost every business out there… we just have to use our own skills to promote ourselves.
Cheers
Sean

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:33:45 +0000

Thanks Laurence, Lou, Andy, Rob and John!

@ John

Gruntwork to be honest

I didn’t use any fancy APIs or clever tools to collate and analyse the data. If only I had. Instead, I simply found the sites by the means mentioned above, took all of the copy from each page and collated every site into a single document. That allowed me to easily check averages for wordcounts etc. It also made it easy to ctrl+F to count instances of individuals words etc. Sites like Wordle.net automatically create visualisations of the data.

Everything else was just time spent with a calculator or chartmaker.

Sorry I can’t offer any easier way than that! I’m sure someone with a more technical mind could point you to a way that takes a 10th of the time…

Cheers,

Paul

By: John

John — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:31:48 +0000

another great effort Paul, I might try this for our Australian market – that’ll be interesting. Funny enough I was playing with advanced Google search syntax when I found your site. website copywriting intitle: online +”UK”
How did you collate the data in the first place?? What tools did you use. Reason I ask is I’d like to do this for other markets. Cheers.