SEO Copywriters: 5 Questions You’re Likely to Receive from Clients When They First Contact You

June 8, 2010

As an SEO writer, when you send out a query, it can be nerve wracking waiting for prospects to get back to you. Then when they do, you may be panicked because you don’t know how to answer their questions.

Following are five questions (and the answers to them) you will most likely be asked as an SEO writer from first-time clients.

I. What Is Your Rate for XX-Word SEO Articles? Even though you will have this information on your seo-writing-questionswebsite, I’ve found that most clients still ask this when they contact my SEO copywriting services firm the first time.

For example, they may ask, “How much do you charge for 400-word article?” or “How much do you charge for 250-word blog posts?”

So memorize your pricing AND your word count. While this may seem obvious, I can tell you I’ve gotten tongue-tied a couple of times when they asked about rate and word count in the same sentence.   For example, at New Media Words, a blog post is anything up to 350 words.  

Any word count over that is an article. So when one client asked about 300-word “articles,” I misquoted him because I based the pricing on our article rate instead of our blog rate.

Of course, I corrected my error, but it was embarrassing not knowing my own word count/rate rate off the top of my head. So get this info down pat.

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