Newbie Article Marketing Question

All of the above plus interesting content. What you write should have exactly what you said AND content that won't force people to click off the article right away because it didn't intrigue them.

Correct grammar, spelling, and sentence structure is part of it.

Quality content in article marketing typically means that your content provides value to the reader, in other words it contains good useful information. It cannot be copied material from another article or site.

Hi,
Make sure that the main body of your article is interesting, informative and full of relevant facts - you want to keep the reader‟s interest, not have him moving on after the first couple of paragraphs.
If you do your research well, you should be able to write with confidence and authority in your subject, which will be reflected in your article and be apparent to your readers.
Check out a few websites at random you will soon learn to pick out the good content from the bad.
Good luck.

In Word you can check the grade level of the content. Your goal is between 8th and 12th grade, but 8th is better. Use short words and shorter sentences than you are used to.

You should also write your content like you're talking to one person. This makes it more personal and use a story form to go with it. I read where "Facts Tell, but stories Sell".

Good luck with it.

If sending it to EZA, it shouldn't get through if the grammar and structure is bad anyway... sometimes it does but what can ya do!

Basically when writing try your best to think about who's going to read it and how you can help them. Usually if you write with the intention to help others as best as you can, it comes across well to most.

Modupe,

Corporate speak is not quality content, unless corporate executives are your audience. Even then this is not what you want. When you are putting together a product review the best way to put out quality content with product reviews is to avoid being a salesperson and simply give a full and useful review of the product.

This means that you want to review the product like someone that has used it successfully and not someone that is trying to sell it to someone else. When I read product reviews I am looking for the benefits, features, and what the product is going to do for me. If you over sell it I will leave the page in a hurry because I see right through this. If you are very non bias and tell me the good and the bad, then I can make a decision as to whether or not the product is right for me.

Grammar, spelling, and other English things can be fixed with spell check and grammar check for the most part. Plus your audience is probably not full of English teachers so as long as your grammar and spelling are decent you will be fine.

Benjamin Ehinger

Simple enough...

Quality Content = Content that your reader will be happy to have read.

I once had a composition instructor in college tell me "it should be interesting and informative and written as though you are writing a letter to friend." Emails didn't exist when I went to college. Hope this helps.

Ken S.

I'm new to article marketing too but i've already submitted 3 articles to ezine and all 3 are accepted. And out of the 3, only 1 are related to my niche but all 3 anchor texts are directed to my website. I am not sure if this will affect my rankings. Only time will tell.

For article marketing, aside from writing with good grammar, punctuation and so forth, make sure your content is unique and not a duplicate. You can double check this by getting it through copyscape. Write a catcy title that captures your readers eyes and your first paragraphy should have an influence on the readers to read your whole content. And lastly if you want backlinks for your site for your keywords, make sure you make an anchor text out of your targetted keyword that you want to rank for in the author bio box.

In terms of SEO, you might want to have your keyword density in your article to be around 2-3% to be safe. But if you are writing articles for your blog, things that take into account are like having your keywords in the h1, h2 and h3 title tags, bold keywords in the upper section of your article, inserting your keyword in your images in the alt tag, etc.

Not to sure if my views oppose to anyone but any comments are welcome. Hope this helps.

In a nutshell, quality content draws a reader's interest with a great title and content that provides them with some interesting information they want to know.

Of course, it needs to have good spelling and grammar, those are givens.

However, it's how the words flow on the page and capture the reader's attention that leads to them clicking on links to find out more information about a product.

Wao..
Thanks everyone for the useful tips.

I have have a rough draft ready and will edit using your advice.

I think that writing quality content means you are writing with the reader in mind - not the $$. For instance, compose your product reviews as if you are telling a friend all the great features about the product. Tell why you like and dislike the product, and keep in mind what info people are really interested in when they look online for reviews. This will set you apart from the countless product reviews which just rehash all the info from Amazon or where ever. You will find that trying to be helpful to the reader will convert much better than trying to push a sale.

remember to use your keywords a few times in the article. Not too many to make it look like a spam post.

Content that will captivate the reader and make then want to learn more abou the product you are offering in short. All of what you said is part of that. A well written article and product more clicks than 1000 poorly written ones.

Make it readable and interesting for your readers.

Just use some common sense. Would you read a crap article and click through to someone's website if the article is amateurish and badly written? Probably not. Put yourself in your readers shoes. What are they looking for? Understand your target audience and try to give them what they want. It's not rocket science.

What will work for you is to research the topic you discussing, read around 5 similar articles and evaluate how the writer has conveyed the message. What did you like, what didn't you like? Then take out the parts you did and mix them up together in an article of your own. Throw in some of your personality. Quality content is where you can educate your reader at the same time as entertain them to carry on reading your stuff with tuning off.
It will take some time, but practise makes perfect.
So don't be put off, as I only started this very recently and am probably in the same boat as you my friend.

Another really good tip with quality content is to make sure your text is broken up heavily. If you are reviewing appliances bullet point the key features and as already suggested demonstrate there applicability. Try to break up the text heavily and leave the content in clear, short, sharp sentences.

great information here

I'm new to this forum, but I've been doing this type of writing for many years. It's kind of hard to change your writing style from a more professional or academic writing, but you'll get used to it. You'll want to write in a conversational tone - like you're talking to a friend. It helps to use contractions and to break up your writing into short paragraphs. It's hard to switch gears at first, but it does get easier.

It includes all of the above, and the article also needs to be engaging and provide value to the reader. In addition to that, it needs to have a strong call to action so that the reader is more likely to click-through on the link that you provide (which is the ultimate goal of your article).