{"id":298,"date":"2008-03-26T09:59:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T23:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2012-05-08T11:42:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T01:42:17","slug":"having-an-about-us-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/03\/having-an-about-us-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Having an about us page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When surfing around sites and blogs, you occasionally come across a site without an <a title=\"Tash &amp; Word Constructions\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/about-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">About Us page<\/a>. To be honest, I don&#8217;t always look at an about us page anyway, but it really annoys me when I want to and there isn&#8217;t one there to look at.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I want to look at an about us page sometimes?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I may want to know where they are based, and the <a title=\"Giving people a choice of contact\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2010\/11\/giving-people-a-choice-of-contact%e2%80%a6\/\">contact us page<\/a> doesn&#8217;t give enough information<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t understand something on the site and want to check a fact. For instance, if I am unsure if they do consultations as well as sell a product\/service, I may check the about us page for details<\/li>\n<li>if I want to contact the site\/business owner (for example to suggest a joint venture or acknowledge something), I like to use their name and an About Us page is the obvious place to find their name<\/li>\n<li>An about us page usually gives me an idea of the size of the business which can sometimes be important<\/li>\n<li>I can get a better sense of who is behind the site\/blog which can develop my trust\/their credibility, or at least give me an idea if the person is speaking as an expert in their blog or just sharing their opinions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also know many people who really like to know who is behind a business before they deal with it &#8211; they want personal stories on the about us page and would even prefer a photo of the owner and key partners\/staff.<\/p>\n<p>So, do you have an about us page on your site or blog?<\/p>\n<p>As writing About Us pages is one of the most common web content requests I get, I\u00a0really should post\u00a0some tips for writing (or improving) your about us page!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When surfing around sites and blogs, you occasionally come across a site without an About Us page. To be honest, I don&#8217;t always look at an about us page anyway, but it really annoys me when I want to and there isn&#8217;t one there to look at. Why do I want to look at an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,59],"tags":[71,75,73,76,72,74],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-content","category-web-content","tag-about-us","tag-blog","tag-information","tag-owner","tag-page","tag-site"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}