How to Write Copy Like Google | Copyblogger

Have you ever wondered who writes copy for Google ? who puts together the words on the landing pages or in the video scripts for products like Gmail, Google+, Analytics, or Nexus?

Of course you don?t (unless you?re a copywriter). Because it doesn?t matter. You just want the product.

Now.

But why is that? Why does it seem that Google?s copy is so good, that their products are so hard to resist?

Well, it?s less about the writer ? and all about the audience. Or, to be clear, what their writers know about the audience.

See, Google knows their audience.

Let?s look at a few products to explore what I mean.

Google knows their products can satisfy their audience

Think about Search. Most of the world uses Google to search the Internet. And, for the most part, people don?t bat an eye at the results. Google delivers useful results fast ? which is what people want.

Think about Gmail. Fast, and near-limitless amounts of storage, which means you can archive instead of delete, and the search function makes it super simple to find old emails.

Think about Wallet. There is zero advantage to allowing Google to hold your credit and debit cards except for convenience and coolness ?

And think about Google+. Big G eyed all of the mistakes Facebook and Twitter have made through the years, and created a superior product that attracts a very different audience ? who so far seem very satisfied.

Google knows their audience.

Google hits the right emotions

Google?s taking it up a notch with their line of Nexus products. Take the 10 for instance ?

Nobody needs a Nexus 10. Nobody needs to search Chrome in HD. Nobody needs instant access to facts like the weight of the earth. Nobody needs to surf the web at four times faster than normal WiFi. And most people (save a few professionals) don?t need to record HD videos in full 1080p.

But wouldn?t it be ridiculously cool?

What Nexus promises is a gateway to a never-ending world of movies, TV shows, books, songs, facts, games, maps, and magazines.

With the Nexus, Google strokes the prospect?s ego and vanity. In other words, it offers you the chance to know, see, and hear anything. And it offers you the chance to be the first on the inside ? and not on the outside (which we all hate).

The copywriter?s most important task

The beautiful thing about an ultra desirable product is that all the copywriter needs to do is show up. Describe the product clearly, spell out the call to action, and get out of the way.

When you know your audience ? and create products they desperately want ? the selling part gets a whole lot easier.

Which leaves us with the moral of this post: when you spend ninety percent of your time researching the customer, the remaining ten percent (the writing) almost falls in your lap.

About the Author: Demian Farnworth is Chief Copywriter for Copyblogger Media. Follow him on Twitter or Google+.

Source: http://www.copyblogger.com/google-copywriting/

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