Thursday, February 12, 2009

Improve Your Article Writing in 7 Steps

By Article Traffic School

Article Mistake #1 Bad english

The most important thing you need to take note about your article is the language, check for any spelling and grammatical errors. And make sure you use a consistent tone in your article throughout.

Article Mistake #2 Too much hype, bragging and self-promotion.

Self praise is no praise. If you write a lot about how good you are within the article, readers may get frustrated. If you are really good in the topic, it should reflect in the article not through your self promotion.

Article Mistake #3 Supply the demand

When you write articles, you should not write for the sake of writing. You need to write about things your readers are looking for. Do some research to find out what readers want.

Article Mistake #4 Making your article broad or superficial in content.

It's better to go in-depth on a narrow topic. Define it. Explain it. Relate to it. Use bullet points or numbered lists. Offer a secret or expertise that you have around the topic. Be original in covering your topic as narrowly as possible in a way that has not been done by others.

Article Mistake #5 Headline and article summary does not grab readers' attention.

The headline is often ~95% of the initial reason why someone might read your article or pass it over for another article. Don't bore your audience out of the gate with a dull headline or worse, a boring introduction to the article. Keep it simple and make it brief. Use keyword research tools to optimize your article title.

Article Mistake #6 Copying other's work

Be original and write your own articles. Copying other people's article is wrong and unoriginal.

Article Mistake #7 Go easy on the resource box

The resource box is there to let readers know where they can find your products or service or know more about you. You should not use it as a marketing avenue and insert too many affiliate links.

Even if you really want to have include your affiliate link, do it discreetly. Buy a domain and mask the affiliate link over it.

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