Content writers ordinarily have to provide a huge number of articles within a deadline, and quite often they may even be ignorant of the subject they are going to write on. So, it becomes very important to research on the internet, obtain information, make sequences of the points and then finally write the actual matter. All this really multiplies the time required to make the articles. The consequence is, you find very tough to meet the deadline of completing the given project.

The main focus of this article is to discuss why it is crucial for the content writers to write more and more articles per day. Let’s have a look.

Any article writer would definitely like to write more articles for the two main reasons -

• Greater the number of articles on the website, greater will be the chance of increasing traffic to the site.
• The simple equation for the content writers is – if they will write more articles, they will be paid more.

But, should a writer take bundles of article writing projects at the risk of losing out on quality?

However, there are some tried and tested ways in which article writers can write several articles in a day (even up to 10 articles) without losing out on their quality. No doubt this requires talent, but it requires something more than that. It requires careful planning and strategy before you begin your work. Read through the following guidelines. When you are done, you will be equipped to write more articles a day than you are already writing; and that too without losing out on their quality.

• When you get an article writing project, the first thing you must do is to go through all the keywords. Categorize similar keywords together. When you do your research, find out points for all the keywords in a single category together. For example if the project is about skin care, then all the keywords in this subject such as ‘tips for skin care’, ‘natural skin care’, ‘skin care at home’ must be taken together. Find out points for all these keywords simultaneously.
• On a rough draft, prepare various headings corresponding to different keywords on one category. As you keep getting good information on different websites, type them in brief points under the relevant headings. Even if you read only about ten articles on modular homes, you could get up to a dozen points under each heading.
• Now you can begin to actually write the articles. You already have your rough draft ready. Look at the points you have collected in them and put them in a logical sequence. When this is done, start writing on them. Do not use the same language as you had read earlier. If possible, make the language simpler – that always helps as you attract a wider readership.
• You may have finished your article, but it is never complete until you put your own thoughts or views in it. Write at least three observations you made when researching information on the keywords. When you were reading other writers’ works, you must certainly have thought about something else that could be added, or something that could be explained further. Use this in your article. This is what will make your article unique.
• When one of the keywords is complete, go to the next in the category. You already have information on that too. Just type it all in. And do not forget to put in your own ideas also. Make it as different from the original articles as possible.

After you follow the points mentioned above, you will find that you are able to write several articles one after the other, provided they are on the same parent category. The key to speeding up the work is to cut down time on research, by simultaneously researching for similar keywords. It is a verified fact that writers spend much more time on researching their information than on writing the article itself. Hence if the time on research is shortened, you can complete the article in about half the time.

This is a method that is applied by article writers across the globe. In simpler word – Work smarter than harder. The average statistic is, if you work for just about four hours a day, you can churn out about ten articles on the same topic. You can count one hour for the research and making the rough draft and three hours for the typing, putting in original ideas and formatting the article in a readable style. Such a systematic approach toward researching topics and arranging articles in your own words will definitely give unique and quality contents to the web.

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By keeping few points in mind we can make our article more powerful and visible to the readers. Every writer wishes more and more readers for his articles. And for this the articles must be optimized so that it comes more often in search engine’s search results. There are many cases when even the best article fails to get traffic or in other word readers. Here comes the experience that crease out several of the initial jitters in writing articles. It is with this experience that I have here compiled the top five article writing mistakes that must be avoided.

Title and First Paragraph

Introductory paragraph of an article plays a significant role in creating interest in the readers. So success of the article largely depends upon how it makes its beginning. Similarly the title of the article is of paramount importance. Title must be attractive enough for the reader to consider clicking the link to your article from the search results and reading it. Here are some easy tips on writing good title:-

• The title of the article must be a short summary of the article itself. It should clarify to the reader what the article is about.
• Do not make long titles. It will not show fully in the search results and will be wasted.
• Do not use puns and other figures of speech in the titles. It is possible that the reader will not understand the play on words and will be misled.
• Always use the keyword in the title. This is very important for the article to show in the search results. Ideally, the keyword should form the first words of the title.

The first paragraph of the article must be short and attractive, and must goad the reader on to read further.

 Information in the Articles

Your article must be honest about the topic it is talking about. People read articles on the net with the sole purpose of getting information. So your article must provide good information on the subject. This is where the initial research on the article helps. You must always spend time on research for the article and make point summaries of what you have learnt. Only when you get an adequate number of points you begin drafting the final article.

Apart from the information itself, one good idea is to put in your own ideas and observations on the issue. This will give the article a unique identity and will also help the reader arrive at a better decision. However, several websites do not use original ideas. So, you will first need to check with the website owner if it is permissible.

Grammar and Narrative Approach

Content writers should have good grammatical knowledge, or they would not be in this field at all. But it does not harm to hone up the grammar a bit. Especially if you are a non-American citizen, it pays to learn American grammar and write your articles in that language. Most users of the internet are acquainted with American English. Use their method of spelling. There is a ‘Set Language’ option on every word processing program. You must set your language to US English.

Do not create any inconsistencies in your article. Always write in the same person pronoun, check your article for tenses, numbers and genders.

You should always read your articles after it finish. There might be some mistakes that you wouldn’t have dreamt possible. When reading, you can also check the flow of the language and make rectifications if needed.

Do not repeat the topic again and again

Your articles must not contain any illogical nonsense. Do not repeat the same point again and again. If you are stuck up for word count, then you should do more research and fill in one more paragraph with the results of the research.

One more important thing is not to stray from the point you are making. Keep your article in a focused direction. You must always know where the article is leading to. This can be done by thinking in advance what all points you will be writing in the article.

Do not overstuff your article with product praising
 
If you are writing a promotional article that is to be submitted in article directories than it must bind the readers to read the complete article and click to the resource box where you have placed your website links. Do not cajole the reader into buying your product through your article. This will never happen. Instead, you might lose a good reader also. If the reader is interested, he or she will certainly come back to buy from you.

These are some of the common mistakes that article writer makes. I hope you will keep the above points in mind before writing a new article next time.

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Sometimes it is seen that a site with good traffic still fails to generate revenue resulting in poor conversion rate. This happens when visitors comes to your site by chance. These visitors don’t come to your site for any specific purpose or information and are not focused one. But when visitors come to your site by searching to a particular keyword from either the search engine or any other source, they will properly navigate through your site and the product selling chances will increase.

Now let talk about how to write keyword rich article that will bring fruitful business to you. The basic requirement for becoming a good writer is a splattering knowledge of English and some free time. Develop interest in your work and believe in quality work rather than quantity. Content writing seems to be easiest job in the world. You have to open several websites, get the information you want, rearrange their words and sequence, pop in the keyword about a dozen times, fit the word count and your article is ready to talk to the whole world.

Is it really that easy to write an article? Well, if it were, then people all around would have been giving up their day jobs and writing articles for the internet. The fact of the matter is, though it is perhaps easy to write an article for the Internet, it is not that easy to get the desired results.

Let us see why the content writing market has increased so much today. Every company needs to draw the attention of internet shoppers to their sites. Only then will they be able to make sales through their sites.

Now suppose you are a buyer so what will you do to find the best deal online? Most likely, you go to a search engine like Google, Yahoo, Ask or Altavista and type in the item you are looking for. Let take an example – you are looking for ‘Sony digital camera’. So you would type ‘Sony digital camera’ in Google or Yahoo. You will then get several search results. If you look closely, all these search results will point at articles with the keyword ‘Sony digital camera’ in them. When you click on them, you will be guided to that Sony digital camera article/ review. On the same page there would be a link to buy the camera. Now if you like the article or review, chances are that you would go ahead and make a purchase of that item.

For all the above to happen for your site, you require two things. First your article should position good in search engine’s search results. Another is when reader/buyer comes to your article he must be pleased with the information given there. Your article must be good enough to make the person decide about buying your product. Or else, the article would be in vain. The visitor would just go back and select another search result. Hence, it is very important to keep in mind that your article, apart from giving the information it is pertaining to, must also be like a subtle advertisement for the product. It is necessary to know the purpose for which you are writing the article. Is the website trying to sell something? If yes, then the article must have enough draws to make the visitor click on the ‘buy’ button.

So, let discuss in brief, how to write an appealing article that may turn your site visitors to your product buyers. When you are going to write an article, you must certainly do the adequate research on it. Read about ten good articles on the subject. When reading, do not start your own article. When you have done this reading, you will know enough about the subject matter to begin. This is when you start sequencing your points. Decide in advance how you would break up your paragraphs. When done, begin writing. Do not read the websites you have referred to when writing; use them only for referring to factual information when needed. Use your own thoughts, your own observations and your own insights. Take the fact as the core and weave your own ideas around it. Also keep in mind, for getting your article on top of the search results of major search engines, make it properly stuffed with your targeted keywords. Do not over stuff the keywords otherwise your article will be considered spam by search engines.

A unique and original article is always in more demand and easily gains readers as well as search engines trust. If your article is honest about what it says, it will gain readers faith and your product selling chances will increase. But remember not to sing praises about the product you are selling; tell about the negative aspects also. Article mentioning only the positive aspects about the products may create a fake image to the readers or buyers. Buyers are smart enough to judge whether your article is giving the right kind of information or just a piece of the product advertisement.

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Writing articles for the web requires a unique style and pattern. If you are writing for websites, then first of all you should be aware of some facts. The most important among them is keyword. Keyword is basically the set of words or you can say a phrase on which the article is based upon. Like if you are writing on ‘SEO for WordPress’ then your article will say all about the tips and techniques that one can adopt while optimizing the blog. If you type in ‘SEO for WordPress’ in the search box of Google, then that becomes your keyword. All articles that feature this phrase prominently will show in the search results. The better the keyword is used, the higher the chances of showing up in the first few pages of the search results. Thus, a clever use of the keyword is highly useful if you want your article to be placed highly on google, yahoo or any other search engines. Your article must contain the keyword 6-8% of the total number of words in the article. This will keep your article on high priority for search engines to include them in their search results.

I think with the above introductory paragraph on the keywords, you are now well familiar with the role of keyword in optimizing the article and making it more important for your website in search engines. So it is very important to know the keywords of the articles before writing the article. Then frame your article accordingly.

Now website owners stress their content writers to use the keyword efficiently. Sometimes a very good article could be rejected just because it does not feature the keyword prominently, while an article with proper keyword stuffed is all time favorite to the website owners as well as search engines. This kind of writing is called as optimized articles. SEO writers are not bothered about what they write; the emphasis is on how they write.

But always keep in mind that an article with properly stuffed keywords may come on the first page of the search engines but if they lack information and are poorly written, will immediately be neglected by the readers. The reader might click on your article. However what is the guarantee that the reader will like the information given there? The only thing people like to read is the information they are looking for. So writing an article for the web is an art.

Below are some tips and guidelines for budding SEO writers. These simple guidelines will help you make your articles more palatable to the readers:-

(1) Don’t harp on the keyword incessantly – Many content writers stuff the keyword even when the keyword doesn’t make any sense in that line. Use your keyword the specified number of times, but camouflage it well within your text. Content writers think that the keyword should be used as it is every time. But this is the most common mistake they make while writing the article for the web. Our search engines are smart enough. They can pick out keywords even if they are split in a sentence.

(2) Be grammatically correct – There are many articles on the net where content writers have disregarded both grammar and spelling just in order to fit in their keyword. This is another big mistake they do. This will make your readers loose trust on your writing. They will never turn your website again.

(3) Use some personal observation – There are already lots of articles on each and every topic on the net. So, nobody is going to think about your article after they close the window, unless you have something new to tell them. Article writing does not mean just manipulating and rearranging the words of an article that already exist on the web in your own words. To be a good article writer, you need to put some inputs and observations of your own without distorting the facts.

Certainly there are several more things you can do to make your article more useful and informative for readers and making them search engine friendly.

Last thing I must say before ending the article is that never over stuff your article with the keyword. An excess use of keyword will make your article spam in search engines and will never comes up in the search results. In some cases, it may make your site de-index or irrelevant in the eyes of search engines. So, play carefully and make yourself well familiar with the basics of content writing and SEO if you want to be the king of the web.

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