5 Tips For Writing Great Content For Your Blog
Lee Dobbins
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5 Tips For Writing Great Content For Your Blog
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If you want people to come back to your blog over and over
again, then you need to provide great web content. This may
seem like an impossible task if you aren�t a natural born
writer. Here are 5 tips that will help even the least
experienced writer create blog content that will entice even
first time visitors to become frequent readers.
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5 Tips For Writing Great Content For Your Blog
Copyright (c) 2011 Lee Dobbins
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The goal of any blogger should be to attract repeat visitors that
devour your content and are left begging for more.
You want people to come back to your blog over and over again,
and you want your content to earn their trust so that they will
link to your blog, tweet your posts, like you on Facebook and
eventually buy stuff from you.
That�s why learning to write good web content is a must if you
want to be a profitable blogger.
5 Tips For Writing Good Web Content
1. Good Web Content Focuses On Providing Value, Not Setting A
Stopwatch
I often have people ask me how much time they should spend
writing an article and my answer is �as long as it takes�. You
should be focusing on writing the best article possible on your
chosen topic and not on how long it is taking you. A few extra
minutes (or hours) spent making your article spectacular will pay
off in spades in the long run.
When writing content for websites, one must adopt the mantra of
quality over quantity. Better to spend several hours crafting a
killer blog post then push out 4 substandard posts in the same
amount of time. The killer blog post will get you readers and
links while the 4 substandard posts will harm your credibility
and drive readers away.
2. Good Web Content Is About The Reader NOT The Writer
Writing good web content is about providing a benefit to the
reader. No one wants to hear about you, they want to hear about
what�s in it for them and how they can benefit from your article.
In order to keep the reader interested, you must give them what
they want.
How do you do that?
By targeting your writing to the reader instead of writing about
yourself. Sure, you can write about your experience on the topic
and how the tips you are going to give out helped you but don�t
go overboard and tell your life�s story. No one, with the
exception of perhaps your mother, is interested.
What you should do , however, is give out information that will
help your reader. Let them know what benefit they can expect from
following the advice in your article. For example, this article
lets readers know that if they follow the advice on writing good
content for websites they may benefit by increasing their
following, getting their articles tweeted and liked and gaining
readers trust.
3. Good Web Content Is Easy To Read
If you want to write great web content, then you have to brush up
on your writing skills. You need to make your articles flow. They
need to be easy to read or your reader will click away from your
site and probably never come back.
One of the tricks of writing good web content is to make sure
your article has good structure. Having different sections is
good because it allows the reader to skim along and pick up the
essence of the article by the headings. Make sure your article
has enough information to be complete but don�t be too wordy.
Write only enough to convey the idea and not a sentence more.
It goes without saying that good grammar and spelling is a must.
You also need to be sure that your sentences flow together and
aren�t stilted which makes it difficult for anyone to read.
4. Good Web Content Solves A Problem Or Gives An Answer
People read articles because they want an answer to a problem or
want to learn more on a topic. Therefore, you should strive to
give people answers to questions in your articles. Of course, you
must know what questions people are asking first which you can
find out when you do your keyword research. And then you must
research the answer, if you don�t know it already.
The key to writing good web content is to provide a thorough
answer and not just gloss over the answer with fluff. Most
content for websites is inadequate in this area and you can
really make your blog stand out from the crowd by giving good
solidly researched information.
Another thing to note is that you must deliver on the promise of
the headline. If your title or headline is �How To Get Rid Of
Stretch Marks With Natural Methods�, you must tell them real
natural methods to get rid of their stretch marks in the body of
the article. Many people make the mistake of not actually
revealing the real answers in the article in the hopes of selling
them a product that does later on.
5. Great Content Has YOUR Voice
Last but not least, you want to make sure that your web content
has your voice. You want your articles to sound like you talk.
You don�t want to write a boring essay like the ones you did in
school � no one wants to read articles like that!
Develop a certain �voice� that exudes your personality so that
anyone reading your content will feel like another person is
�talking� to them. One way to do that is to get voice recognition
software like Dragon Naturally Speaking and actually talk out the
article. Or, if that doesn�t work for you, simply picture that
you are talking to a friend and just type out the words as they
are coming into your head.
Writing good content for websites is critical if you want to
develop a following. There is a ton of other bloggers out there
clamoring for readers attention and you must differentiate
yourself with quality if you want to stand out from the crowd.
With social media becoming so prevalent today, it is critical
that you provide great quality content which has real value that
people want to share. Do this, and you will find that your blog
subscribers grow exponentially over time.
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Writing good web content is just one piece of the puzzle to
getting traffic to your site. The other piece is having a
good back linking plan which you can find out more about in
this free report: http://hypertracker.com/go/leedobbins/ftpw11/.
You�ll also want to visit:
http://www.websitepromotionblueprint.com to get more tips on
blogging, content creation and website promotion.
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