One of the things which you should avoid when creating content for websites, writing blog posts or developing any other web content is the passive voice. It’s often been said that the passive voice is weak, and research suggests that some people find it harder to understand than the active voice.
But whilst the recommendation is to write in the ...
Continue Reading →For those writers and marketers just beginning to explore the possibilities of article marketing, writing articles in good English can be more of a challenge than might at first be expected. It’s all very well writing letters to your family, a report for work or even a CV, but article marketing is different, and for two good reasons.
Firstly, you have a much wider audience. Whereas your personal letters and notes might only be read by one or two ...
When it comes to article writing, do you think that correct grammar is important, or not? Let me ask the question a different way.
“When you is wrote articles does you thought grammar ain’t not important?”
All right, I confess, I almost felt physical pain writing that last sentence, although 12 years as an English teacher in secondary schools provided me with plenty of material from which to work when crafting ugly, ungrammatical writing such as that. Forgive me.
However, the point is ...
Continue Reading →There are many ways in which all of us can improve our articles, but let’s look at 5 elements of every article, and identify one way in which we can aim to improve each element.
1. The Title – The article title is almost always the way in which we attract readers to our article. Whether it’s in the search engine results or a list of articles within an article directory, it is the title which is most likely to grab attention. ...
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Why are you reading this sentence? Probably because of the title. A good article title will attract readers, which boosts traffic. This is why article writers spend time thinking, planning and redrafting their article titles to ensure maximum clickability. Whether it’s the search results listings or the article directory listings, it is always the article title which decides whether your literary creation will languish forlornly in an unloved and pitiful corner of the web, or attract readers, traffic and potential ...
Continue Reading →3 Ways To Boost Your Success With SEO Article Writing
When you’re writing an SEO article, either for submission to an article directory or publication on your own website, what do you think about most? This might seem like a fairly odd question, since it is very likely to be the subject of the article which is foremost in your mind. Yet is this really true?
For many article marketers it isn’t, and the proof is very evident when you read their ...
Continue Reading →The reputation of your business could be in the hands of an SEO article service or article writer. If you have chosen article marketing as one of the ways in which your online business will be promoted, and have decided that you don’t have the time or expertise to sit and write endless reams of SEO articles, then you may well have requested an SEO article service to tackle the job for you.
But be warned, because there are very few ...
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Every writer has at least one pet hate, and one foible – what is yours?
I have a writer friend who has always had a special hatred for those who qualify an absolute, such as suggesting that something is ‘almost unique’ or ‘almost new’. Naturally, as frequently argues, a thing is either unique, or it is not, but it can never be almost unique; similarly, a thing is either new, or it is not, but there can be no room for ...
Continue Reading →Summary: The Linguisticator is a tool which will help to improve the readability of your writing, improve the quality of your writing, and reduce weak or complicated writing – all with a single click, and at half the price of tools which can only do half as much.
First of all – I make no apologies for the appalling name!
The Linguisticator was the result of my own wish to locate a tool which would help to analyse my writing. I had ...
Continue Reading →Writer’s block getting you down? Running out of ideas to kick start your motivation? Need something to get rid of that blank white screen in front of you?
I’m frequently faced with this problem, and I know I’m not alone. Like most other writers I have tried a number of different techniques, from stream of consciousness writing to getting some thoughts onto the paper the night before so that the day never starts with a blank sheet.
But I recently came across ...
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