Content Writing

When writing content, try to think like your audience. Ask yourself: "Would I like to see this content?" Offer them value in your content and focus primarily on writing for people. If your site runs on WordPress you can use a plugin like All in One SEO to take care of most on page SEO. That's what I do when writing.

Maikel Michiels

You are headed in the right direction. When in doubt, ask advice.
That depends on how much information you want to pack into your article. Some people spend months researching the topic of their article before they publish it. If you want to provide valuable content to your readers you will need to dig deep for the information you need.

Dig around online for articles about your subject and then read a couple books. You want to be an expert in your niche so put in the effort to educate yourself in any way possible.

There are many different templates that you can write your articles around. I just use the basic format: introduction, body, and conclusion. At the end of the article you want to summarize the main points so the information sticks in your reader's mind. Get used to using a template.

I think that entirely depends on the point you are trying to get across in your article. 500 words is usually not enough to write a detailed article about a particular subject. The length should be long enough to allow you to fully cover each point of the topic.

Always a good place to start. It seems you are headed in the right direction and I wish you the best.

Good luck!

You should write for your readers, without thinking about SEO. After writing your article you can change a few words with better keywords that have the same meaning.

Writing copy takes practice...start doing it now and you will become better over time, just like anything else.

First of all you have to search at least enough information on the internet. Don't make it on your own words. If you just write and make it on your own words then you might not be delivering the right information. And will also result to useless article.

Thanks very much all, very informative. It's all trail and error, but I'm stubborn, so I get there!

Hi

Everyone is right here. Create your content for your readers and not the search engines. Write your posts as if you are speaking out to people, remove yourself from the picture and keep the content focused on them.

Create at least 400+ word blog posts but not too long, use bold sub headings to stop your readers from skim reading and keep your paragraphs short, to a maximum of 3 to 4 lined sentences to create plenty of white space which readers love.

As for the SEO side, add your chosen keyword to your heading, in the url and once in the first sentence of your content. This is all that's required for search engines to rank your content. (as well as natural backlinking methods of course) lol.

However, sometimes it's great just to write a piece of content without inserting keywords because search engines love content.

Hope this helps, Neil

I think articles between 300 and 1000 words are best, but you need to keep the content informative and well-structured with subtitles and bullet points. And you need to find the right keywords, of course.

Hey,

There are a NUMBER of free and paid resources that go through everything about freelance writing, from the basics to the advanced.

A couple of good teachers are Tom Ewer and Carol Tice - both who make several thousand dollars monthly JUST from freelance writing, both of whom started off from scratch in terms of writing as well.

Bot of these have both paid and free resources, so get on their sites and have a look.

there are also software that can help you with providing content without even spending too much time searching for the right content.

Are you in a certain niche? Look for magazines that are in the same niche.
Read the articles and headlines. Rewrite them but try and see how they are setup, look for commonalities in the articles, study them.
Magazines have to sell, or else they would go belly up, so their content is target for that.

I recommend following Neil Patel, founder of QuickSprout and KissMetrics. Get his free e-newsletter. It's awesome. Great content 100% of the time.
He recommends 1,500 to 2,100 words in your posts / articles. This is the length that Google prefers as it allows for depth of content and keyword density found on genuine authority sites. Next... he clearly shows that blogs with at least 2 posts per week get 60% more traffic that blogs with 1 per week or fewer. You can boost that rate significantly by posting high quality content DAILY.

Check out Content Marketing Institute's free e-newsletter. Also pure awesomeness in DAILY posts. Obviously, this heavy of a publishing schedule is challenging. CMI has a stable of guest bloggers who provide great content for them.

Think like a magazine publisher. Map out ahead of time what topics you want to cover and systematically create the content before you publish. I also recommend creating MASSIVE amounts of content all at once... set aside a weekend and start writing. If writing is a challenge then get an audio recorder and start talking then have the audio transcribed. It's easier to get into a FLOW when you do this. If you are still challenged then...

Well, I save that advice for my coaching clients.

Here are the few advices:

- Write at least 500 words in each article, don't go below 300 words.
- Provide accurate and useful information, do not fill up the article with garbage stuffs.
- Always proofread your article by someone.
- You should be passionate about the topic, do not force yourself.