Showing posts with label ARTICLE TITLE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ARTICLE TITLE. Show all posts

Saturday, May 22, 2010

How to be a Better Article Writer on the Net – 10 Sparkling Ideas

"If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all." --Anne Tyler

Source:http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/2014_12_01_archive.html


It is assumed that you have a blog and you post articles that you have written. How do you improve your writing and continue to write without running out of ideas? Here are some suggestions:


1. Write daily: Cultivate the habit of writing every day so that you are always ready to write at the same time and place. When you write daily you can also post daily. When you post daily you attract more readers to your site. One important advantage is that quantity develops into quality. Even on the day, you can’t write you still sit down and write something.

2. Read widely: Read newspaper headlines and articles in magazines to get inspiration for your next article. You can get more ideas if you know more than one language.

3. Keep a notebook: This is to record ideas that have occurred to you from time to time. Look at it when you need ideas for the next article. You also jot down useful words and phrases to be used in your future articles. You will remember the words even without looking at them because you have taken the trouble to write them down to reinforce your memory

4. Maintain a journal; A journal is to record your feelings and important events in your daily life. The habit of writing a journal complements your article writing habit.

5. File: Keep useful articles relating to writing tips so that you are always guided by the golden rules. You are also alerted to mistakes to avoid.

6. Titles: When a title from a book or an article catches your attention you know the title has created an impact. Study these titles and come up with your own catchy article titles.

7. Popular posts of niche sites: Read their popular articles and examine why the articles are attractive to readers. Can you do the same to attract readers to your site?

8. Your own popular posts: Look into your own posts and identify your successful articles and do mo more of the same.

9. The most effective article writing idea:
StumbleUpon

When you face a writer’s block what do you do? This is the best way to do and it will guarantee you that you will never run out of ideas. Go to your StumbleUpon Toolbar click “ALL” and you will see a list of topics and you click on your niche subject. By the way, my niche is “self-improvement”. Next, you click on “Stumble” on the left. Bingo! You will see many articles recommended by readers for readers. One or more of the articles will surely give you the inspiration and ideas to write your future articles.

10. Use a dictionary: A dictionary is more than finding the meaning of words. You can use a dictionary to enrich your writing. As an example you look up one word, you can find other words with the same meaning. Pick and choose the right word or words to suit your article.


Wine is aged to mellow. Writing quality articles is also for the long term. The more and the longer you write the better will be your writing. Your articles will be more mature, punchier, and more captivating.


Monday, November 10, 2008

SEO, Keywords and Your Article Title

Recent Keyword Activity According to Wikipedia search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a website from search engines via “natural” (“organics” or “algorithmic”) search results. Accordingly, the most crucial element in SEO is the keywords or key phrases. And the keywords of your article title are the most important: In order to show you the relationship between SEO and the keywords of the article title, let me present the following actual results from Google search: 

 Date: November 7, 2008 Search words: bruce lee smart My article title: Bruce Lee (1940 – 1973) and his SMART goals My Article Ranking: Page 1 Search Results: 1,300,000

 Date: November 6, 2008 Search words: Citibank giant My article title: Citibank-Giant Credit Card for Extra Happiness My Article Ranking: Page 1 Search Results: 629,000 

 Date: November 7, 2008 Search words: gphone apps My article title: Google’s GPhone, Apps, and Chrome My Article Ranking: Page 1 Search Results: 13,700,000 

 Date: November 7, 2008 Search words: characteristics of good workers My article title: The characteristics of a good worker My Article Ranking: Page 1 Search Results: 9, 870,000 

 The above results are extracted from statcounter.com’s (see image) report on Recent Keyword Activity. From the above, you will notice that your article title decides the fate of your article. It can be highly ranked or buried among other articles. How to have SEO friendly article titles? Here are a few tips: 

 • A longer article title is better than a short one because a longer title tells more about your article content. As an example, an article with the title “Heart –Love it or Die in 5 ways “is better than just “Heart”. A longer title attracts more traffic.
 • Avoid using junk words like "a" or "the". Start your title with your article subject. As an example instead of using “The Health Benefits of Banana” start with the keyword: “Banana - The Health Benefits”.
 • The title should be compelling. For example, a “How To” title and a title that ends with” Tips “are very popular among readers. 
 • Make sure that you can deliver the content to match the title or else the readers will be pissed off. 
 • Be natural about the title. You are writing for your readers and not for the search engines.
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