Writing in Internet | Considerations

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Writing an article or a blog post to an online website is different from writing to a paper based one. As the reader reads the article on a screen you must make a good conversation with the reader so that he is more interacted with the content and read it to the end. So depending on the topic, size of it and many other, you must write the article very carefully. This is also important to get a good rank in Social Bookmarking sites. Let’s take a look at few things you can do to the article to keep the reader attracted.

Readers read web articles on some sort of screen, their eyes and mind are tired most of the time. Because of this it’s the heading of the article that catches the reader most of time. If you haven’t put a catchy heading you will be missing good number of readers for the article. Use something that is short and sweet. Like ‘25 Places to Find Photos for Your Every Need’, ‘Increase Traffic: 3C's of Blogging’ like that.

Next comes the paragraphs. You must think of how to interact and attract the customer from the first to the last paragraph. Some kind of a small story or a life experience of you will do best for you. Readers like to read something really happened or some story that they never heard of. So consider writing the content of the article in one of the two approaches mentioned. Also follow the basics accurately. Like spellings, grammar, correct and matching quotes etc.

Also try to do something different in your writing. Asking a question on top of the article and giving the answer or a hint in middle or last would engage the reader in the article. This kind of things gets reader involved in the article. Most of the time in this kind of question based articles reader tends to post comments so that they can actively participate in the conversation. Trying something like this is good but overusing this method will bring you nightmare. People won’t be like an article which just asking many questions but no use.

My last point is an important one, the length of the article. The length depends on the topic you write. For topics like gadget review, writing long articles won’t bring you anything. People tend to see gadget videos instead of reading. So gadgets reviews must be kept short and simple and also technical. But writing about some scientific matter will have a lengthy article and sometimes it could spread over few articles. In these people are looking for is more content.

Follow these steps and be a good writer. Good writing skills will bring you great opportunities if you’re in to internet marketing. Share your thoughts and ideas in comments.

Universal Writing Ethics

Some times there are things that can be called as universal because they are globally recognized. Even in web writing (Especially in Blog Writing) there are things, that are globally accepted.

Here even though the writer says these are Rules, I'm not going to say they are Rules because they are actually not rules. 

Here I'll list down the 5 Universal Writing Rules from a Guest Writer at problogger

8 Proofreading tips and techniques

Daniel at DailyWritingTips has written a nice article about Proofreading tips, A summary of them is,

1. Concentration is Key

2. Put It On Paper

3. Watch Out for Homonyms

4. Watch Out for Contractions and Apostrophes

5. Check the Punctuation

6. Read it Backwards

7. Check the Numbers

8. Get Someone Else to Proofread It

Read the full article here from DailyWritingTips.

Think Outside The Box

The definition wikipedia gives for think outside the box is;

Is to think differently, unconventionally, from a new perspective. This phrase often refers to novel, creative and smart thinking.

 If you’re onto blogging or anything, thinking outside the box is very important to get on to big heights. It will help you to stand out from the others and shine as gold

• Thinking outside the box required few things.
  
• Ability to take new perspectives to everyday work
  
• Willingness to do different things and to do things differently
  
• Listening to others
  
• Supporting others and respecting other's ideas when they come up with good one's
  

For further reading, I recommend this site which is full of video tutorials 

Write Your Most Popular Article Ever

One popular post can bring you more traffic and links than a months work on your usual method. 

Below points will you give you some sort of help to tackle this task. Read carefully and take it to your self.

1. Explore

Before starting to write explore similar stories that have published before. Try to get an idea from it and try to write better than that. 

2. Time is important than talent

You can improve or buy the talent. But you can't do anything to time. So what you have to do is invest more time in improving talent. 

3. Write the best

Write the best ideas on posts. Think different. Think about something that will get popular that others are not writing. Use the best ideas to express your self.

4. Headlines

People read title before reading the content. So you must write brainstorming title that inspires the reader to reader to read full article.

5. Add links

If people find your article interesting they will want to read similar stories about it. Add few links that they might want to read.

6. Research

Research what have worked before. Try to answer your self, why did they work kind of questions.

7. Criticism

Take criticism. They will inspire and force you to write more good content than before. Take criticism as a bonus.

 

            

Art of Writing Catchy

 1. CONTENT

The more useful and catchy content a website has the more successful it will be. Because more people will want to visit it and also they will want to come back over again.

2. READ

The more you read the more ideas and creativity you will get. Then you will find a way to stand out from the crowd.

3. REJECT UNNECESSARY

A sentence should not contain unnecessary words and a paragraph, no unnecessary sentences. Don’t write just because you have to, you are not doing any good but damaging your image.

4. PASSION

You must write on a topic that you are passionate about. Only then you will get an inspiration to write. If you have passion to write the ideas will float in to you.

5. Use images

When you are entering a new web page. The first thing you see is not the content, what you see is the images that have used there. Use out of the box images.

6. Keep it short and simple

Keep it short and simple as you are talking to the person next to you. Simple words can be easily understood by your reader and it's easy to pass the message.

7. Write

Write and keep writing something. The more you write the more you read and the more you read the more you gain ideas.

8. Unique

Making up your own style of doing things is uniqueness. Its' a good way to stand out from the crowd.

Write Articles, Not Blog Posts

Recently I went through an amazing article named, Write Articles, Not Blog Posts. It's a bit long article but as I read it I got to know that even though it's long, It has many things to get not only for a beginner but for the professionals too.

So I invite all to read the article. by Jakob Nielsen