How to Write Popular Link-Gravitating Articles
Hey Warriors,
A lot of bloggers and marketers throw up content on a blog they think the audience needs to hear. I stopped doing this months ago after discovering it's a hit-and-miss method.
You may go the extra effort by first doing keyword research to see what traffic a topic can send then write from there. This is the typical method website owners are told to use to produce free content.
However, I think you should also consider how desperate the market is for the information by seeing the popularity of content already out there. I've written on topics I thought my readers would love, but the topic bummed, no one commented, and few replied. I've written on other topics that were not very exciting to me but they generated bucket loads of comments, responses, and glorious praise (these are the topics you write more on!)
The question is how do you identify these hot topics? A simple it-seems-so-obvious way to produce good articles I hear no one discuss is seeing what's popular on other sites.
A few smart Warriors are using Ezine Articles and Google to their advantage for this with the following Google search:
site:ezinearticles.com "been viewed 0..301100" "submitted on * *, 2009"
Another way to find popular articles is looking on sites in your niche who list their most viewed articles.
What are some other ways you can identify popular articles that users will drool over and want to link to?
A lot of bloggers and marketers throw up content on a blog they think the audience needs to hear. I stopped doing this months ago after discovering it's a hit-and-miss method.
You may go the extra effort by first doing keyword research to see what traffic a topic can send then write from there. This is the typical method website owners are told to use to produce free content.
However, I think you should also consider how desperate the market is for the information by seeing the popularity of content already out there. I've written on topics I thought my readers would love, but the topic bummed, no one commented, and few replied. I've written on other topics that were not very exciting to me but they generated bucket loads of comments, responses, and glorious praise (these are the topics you write more on!)
The question is how do you identify these hot topics? A simple it-seems-so-obvious way to produce good articles I hear no one discuss is seeing what's popular on other sites.
A few smart Warriors are using Ezine Articles and Google to their advantage for this with the following Google search:
site:ezinearticles.com "been viewed 0..301100" "submitted on * *, 2009"
Another way to find popular articles is looking on sites in your niche who list their most viewed articles.
What are some other ways you can identify popular articles that users will drool over and want to link to?
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brettb -
Thanks
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