How to write an Article – 18 Tips

September 22, 2013 by cyril

How to write an Article – 18 Tips

Guest Post Victoria G

How the traffic on web sites can be gained by using writing articles skills? There is enough to write an article and publish it?

If you are going to spend your precious time writing articles to gain traffic to your web site you must appeal to both the search engines and your potential readers.

 

So if you feel very lucky to continue, don’t forget about your main intentions about your blogging plan and follow this genuine 18 Tips:

            What to do before writing your article:

             1. Choose a topic:

Your goal is to write on a topic where you solve someone’s (or your own) problems, which they might be:

– reasons to use articles to market your web site;
– how to write an effective article;
– how to market your articles to boost your web traffic.

Sometimes it’s difficult to come up with a topic that you
feel inspired to write about. Many people are usually write about some
problems they’ve come across while working with they own problems like: web design business, choosing impressive themes for impacting, sparkle they own writing skills, by publishing many helful articles and so on. It could be a design problem or something related to it such as marketing or hosting. Then after having
solved this problem I feel comfortable writing about it. I also feel good that this article will then help others that may have struggled with the same problem.

If there still don’t have a subject, feel free and passionate about it, you will visit forums, read online newsletters or magazines related to your field of interest. You may also talk to friends in the same business. They often share some of the problems that they have encountered and you can benefit from that.

              2. Keyword research

Another goal of article writing is to make your article search engine friendly. This means including searchable keywords that search engines will spider. Therefore researching appropriate keywords before weaving them into
your article is crucial.

Use the keyword suggestion tool to find which words or phrases are searched on most often. It will display the top results for both overture and wordtracker.
The numbers differ because overtures data is based on more
searches whereas wordtracker differentiates between single and plural forms of the word or phrase.
Include your researched keywords into your article being careful not to repeat them so often that it won’t read smoothly. You want to your article to appeal to your readers also.

3. Article length – begin with just writing out your article without worrying too much about the length. It’s more important to let all your ideas flow out of your mind first. If you think it’s getting too long split it up into two or more articles. It’s often easier to write a short article of 500 words than one of 1000 words.

Most article publishers prefer articles between 500 to 800 words and will not accept articles any longer than that. Others prefer longer articles over 800 words so check with the publisher before you submit your article for publication.
You can easily check how long your article is by placing it in MS Word. Then go to “tools” – “word count” to get a read out of the length.

4. Write with style – write in an informal style, like you would explain your topic to a friend. Don’t worry too much about correcting mistakes or how it sounds. This may interrupt the flow of thoughts you want to write about. You can always correct them later.

5. Take a break

After you have written the article, come back to it after several hours, a day or several days. This will enable you to take a fresh look at it, find new mistakes or even want to rewrite a paragraph or two to make it flow better.

6. Check your article

After writing your article, run it through a spell checker first, then read it through a few times to check for spelling mistakes the spell checker may have missed and to correct the grammar and punctuation.

 7. Don’t let mistakes

              Make sure it flows well by clearly identifying the problem, providing a
solution and concluding with an action step or steps. Get someone else to read it over. Often they will find the mistakes that you missed.
8. Format your article

You will need to format your sentence length at 60-65 words per line before submitting it for publication. This will enable people to read it in their email software. If the sentence length is longer than this, the article may break up making it impossible to read.

9. What to do next?

Then you can find a programme to effortlessly format your articles before submitting it to online publishers. If it’s not the correct length it will be rejected.

10. Periodicity on writing

If you consistently write an article every week or 2 weeks and submit it for publication you will soon generate a steady stream of traffic to your web site for years to come.

11. Attract visitors to your web site

Distributing your articles to online publishers, article submission sites can instantly bring thousands of visitors to your web site. For example, if you manage to get your article accepted by a large ezine with half a million subscribers you will experience a sudden increase in subscribers or sales from your site.

12. Establish yourself as an expert in your field

It’s not easy to trust people on the Net because you can’t see them or you may have been ripped off by some fly-by-night schemer trying to make a quick sale. If people find your articles contain valuable information that they need, they will come to respect and trust your opinion. You then establish yourself as an expert in your field.

13. Builds link popularity

Search engines, particularly Google, place importance on the number of links that point to your site from other sites or directories. If many sites link to yours it helps boost your search engine rankings with the effect of increasing traffic and thus gaining more sales or subscribers from your site.

              14. Increases search engine rankings

When marketing your articles you are allowed to place a resource box at the end of the article that contains a link back to your site. If you have a high quality article that is read and placed on thousands of sites you automatically get thousands of links pointing back to your site which will increase your search engine rankings.

15. Write about your web site content for less waiting rankings

                It sometimes takes months for a new web site to get spidered by the search engines. If you write and market articles related to your web site content, you won’t have to wait for web site traffic. Instead you gain immediate traffic plus you build content that will help boost your rankings for the future.

16. Helps to pre-sell products

Visitors often don’t want to be sold right away. They want more information about the product before making a decision. Writing an article about how your product will solve their problem and pointing out all the benefits of the product will allow the visitor to make an informed decision. Your article will help place them in a better position to buy your product.

17. Gain returning visitors to your web site

Your articles will remain in the search engines and on other peoples’ sites for years to come. They will produce a constant stream of traffic so long as you write and submit articles on a consistent basis. Your article may also be a constant source of information for people searching the net about your topic. They may link to it from their site to keep it as a valuable resource for their visitors. Marketing articles may be even a more effective strategy because the of the recurring traffic it produces.

              18. Make greatest marketing strategies for an excellent traffic

                Be sure to include marketing articles as one of the top strategies for promoting your web site. It’s a self generating marketing machine that produces a constant flow of visitors.

CONCLUSION:

Feel your mind free to write and make money with your own creations or writing skills!

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