Tips on How You Can Write Really Great Articles
Dave Cole
Do you know how to write really great articles?
Here's some quick tips and pointers so you can
write great article content that will get published.
We see a lot of articles pass across our desk every day,
usually between 100 to 150 or more. Far too many of these
articles have common faults, which unfortunately could be
easily corrected.
Here's some handy tips and pointers to help your articles get
published quicker and easier.
1. Format your articles to 60 characters per line.
Nothing gets an article thrown out faster on our end than an
article that is un-formatted with the sentence length totally
choppy.
2. Use Spell Check Every Time. Duuuuh
That should be obvious, but believe it or not, at least 50% of
the articles we publish on our site need spelling errors
corrected.
3. Keep your signature box to 5 - 8 lines including url. Keep
it simple, clear, to the point, and give the reader a big
benefit on why they should follow your link.....What's in
it for them.
No one really gives jack about you or what you do, they
only care about what's in it for them.
The resource box or sig file should be a natural follow
up asking for the reader to take action after reading
your article. Your article should be leading up to
that action you want the reader to take.
In the resource box there is no need to put: About the Author.
Do begin your article with the tile and then put....
By: Your name
4. Capitalize all proper names. How simple is that, yet too
many authors lower case their own names or names of places, etc.
5. Here's a big mistake of many authors: make sure you
put the apostrophe in words like don't, what's, isn't, I've,
that's, etc. Spell check picks these up so make your
spelling correct.
Note: Why use spell check?
Because if it isn't happening now, it will happen, the search
engines spell check content and will reduce your ranking
for content that has a certain number of grammatical or
spelling errors. These errors only show that a web master isn't
really concerned about the reader's experience, they are only
concerned with having web pages listed.
So USE Spell Check every time.
6. When using words like humor, favor, etc. don't put them in
as humour, favour and so on. Drop the u even if you are
writing from Europe. Spell check flags these as mistakes.
7. Recognize, criticize, etc. are spelled with a z and
not an s.
This is one of the most common spelling mistakes we get.
Practice is spelled with a c not an s.
8. Make your headline compelling, attractive, to the point,
exactly what the article is about. If no one reads the
headline, no one will even look at the rest of the article.
Make your headline a maximum of 60 characters.
If the article is about one main topic, use the keyword
twice if possible. If the article is about a couple of
different related things, use two or three main keywords
in the title if possible, and definitely in the first
sentence or two.
If someone can't get a good idea of what your article
is about in the first two or three paragraphs, then
re-write it.
9. One url in the sig box only. That's enough. We get
articles with 5 or more links in the sig box, plus links
in the content. Forget it, they won't get published on
our site. We don't publish advertisements, we publish content.
Too many off site links detract significantly from
page rank.
Besides you're way further ahead to give the reader one
simple choice to follow with a clear cut benefit on that
link than giving them 5 or 6 choices to make.
Don't your url in parenthesis or put punctuation marks
directly after the url. Put at least one space before
and after the url.
10. Here's another common error: using s in place of z in
words like recognize, realize.
11. Make your paragraphs 5 - 10 lines max. We get articles
that are 20 or more lines in length. It makes for hard reading.
Make the paragraphs simple and easy to read.
If the paragraphs have to be long, double space between
them.
12. Keep your articles to a max of 700 words. Attention
span is short on the net. Get to the point and make your
article about one main point only, don't split the article
up into 2 or more main topics. You're better off to write
two or three smaller articles than one big one.
13. Make sure the link in your article is active, meaning it
actually goes to a real web page and doesn't give a 404 error.
Another tip: when you say you are going to give the reader
something like an ebook or other promotional item, make
sure you actually do and keep that page active forever.
Your links are going to stay active on publishing sites
for years, so keep your pages active. We use a link checker
on our published articles and if the link fails, then your
link doesn't get made hot or click able.
13. Proof Read Your Article before sending it!
It's your reputation you are sending out there, make it
as sterling as you possibly can.
Now you can get your article published in our Exclusive
directory where we provide high quality content.
Your article will rank high in search engines because
of our linking technique which means lot's of exposure
for you and your articles.
Find out how you can get your content published here:
http://choosetoprosper.com/free-reprint-article.html
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