CONTENT CREATION: 3 Tips to Writing Articles for the WEB

If you’re a blogger, video marketer, internet marketer, or an information product creator you’ve no doubt struggled with the question of content.

You can have the best ideas, but if you don’t know how to use that idea to build quality content for a website, it probably won’t be successful. When it comes to your website, every part is important. Sure you want the right font, color, design, etc. The most important part of your website, however, is your content. Without quality content, your website cannot survive. It is important to remember—Content is everything!  Especially when it comes to Articles. 

In this post, I am sharing 3 tips to writing articles for the WEB

WEB ARTICLE TIPS

1. Answer the questions: who, why, where, when, what and how. If you answer these questions, you are half way to writing a good article. You’ve no doubt read newspaper articles. Journalists always use this type of format. Practice reading news articles and identifying these six things. You’ll see how journalists use them to create quality content for their newspaper. Then write your article in a similar fashion answering these questions.
2. Check grammar and spelling as you go and when you have finished the article. Nothing shows lack of professionalism more than an article full of misspelled words and poor grammar. Be sure to check for homonyms that spell check won’t correct like: they’re, their, there—to, two, too. You’ll want to make sure you use the right form of each when you write. Sure, some people won’t notice, but those who do won’t take your information seriously if it’s riddled with grammatical errors.
3. Give your article a good hook. This is the first impression the reader will have of your article. You could write the most fantastic, helpful article ever, have an average title, and it would never get read. This is one of the worst things that can happen to a great piece of writing. The trick is to have a good hook. Make it something that catches the reader’s attention. Readers want to know that if they're going to spend time reading your work that it is going to be worth it. The best titles express exactly what the reader will take away from your article. A good hook in an article will reel your audience in again to see what you write next.

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