How to Decide on a Quality Article - Top Tips to Make Your Articles Shine

Writing an article takes time, writing a good article takes even longer and writing a brilliant article takes time, skill and effort. Article and content writing is not easy because you have to make your information both accurate and interesting, and it takes time and knowledge to really make a good article read well and yet still maintain some degree of interest.

Below, we look at some top tips when it comes to writing a popular article that will hopefully spread across the net.

Work Out Your Niche - Try to look at the niche that you feel most comfortable with. We tend to stick to web design, SEO and computer related articles because this is the topic niche that we know the most about and therefore can product the strongest content on. By focusing on one niche or area, you can begin to gain reputation and authority in this area, which will make your content appear more often as the word begins to spread about your writing skills in an area.

Look At Existing Articles - Check out some of the most popular articles around at the moment and then try to make variations of them. This is not plagiarism because you are not copying them; you are simply taking inspiration from them and then forming a brand new piece of content from it. For example, if you find an article about "Top five ways to train your dog" you could then expand on this, maybe do top ten, or even write your own top five tips if you think you have different methods.

Focus On Current News - Current news stories and topics are often a fantastic thing to write about, mainly because it will tend to attract a much wider audience, rather than those just looking at or for a certain subject. Current news subjects tend to get a massive peak of searches when the news is currently a hot topic, for obvious reasons, so you do need to be quick when it comes to writing these articles as if you take too long you will miss the boat and the traffic! For example, as an SEO company, when Google releases its new product or service, we would make sure we are one of the first to write about it, because we know that the increase in search terms for this information would be much higher.

Be A Little Controversial - Always a fine balance to get right, but sometimes it does not hurt to be a little controversial about your subject. Maybe you can look at the bad things regarding a product or a service instead of the positives, even maybe looking at something that is massively negative and trying to put something positive on it. But, do be careful to not be massively controversial, as this will backfire and could start causing lots of issues in the months after release.

Write About What You Know - The final and probably most important thing you can do as an article or content writer is to write about what you know. If you have to write about things that are outside of your boundaries then needs must and all you can do is research. But, if you write about something you do every day or work in the industry, then your articles and information are obviously going to come across as much stronger, as if you can not write about something you do for a living then maybe writing is simply not the best route for you!

Ian Spencer works for Clear Web Services, a SEO Web Optimisation and Web Design company serving the Forest Of Dean, Gloucestershire and South Wales. He has worked in the SEO and Internet Marketing world for many years, and working in partnership with another company has launched the new SEO business.

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