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Article Writing Home Business
by Sylvia White
Writing Articles can be a lucrative home
business and and it pays to know the right and the wrong
way to go about it.
Although keywords are important in your
articles, always make sure they fall in naturally and they do
not stand out as if you have placed them deliberately.
Do not stuff your article with keywords, one or two here and
there is sufficient.
Content is king, so your articles should be informative and
well written, stating facts and placing any important
information near the beginning. Keep your
paragraphs short, no more than three or four sentences as large
blocks of text are off putting and the reader is likely to give
up. If you are talking about a product and it is not on
your own website, do not be afraid of giving the address of the
website, it will do you no harm and it will help the ranking of
your page. Your header or title is an important part of your
article as this is what the reader sees first, if its not
descriptive or looks dull and uninspiring the reader will pass
it by and look for something better.
If you have difficulty thinking of ideas for your
articles simply look around your home or your your office, jot
down a list of things you can see around the room or on your
desk. If you have a window close by, glance through and jot down
what you can see in the vicinity. For instance on your desk
you will have a pen and pencil, now think to yourself, I wonder
how many types of pens there are on sale today, when were the
first pens used, and what were they like, who invented the pen?
who invented a biro?
I am not saying you should write about it, but every thing
you see could be a starting point. Most information can be found
on the web so you should have no difficulty finding out facts
and figures for what ever you write about. People like to know
why, and where, who, and what. Try and provide answers and you
will come up with some great articles. Write naturally and not
in a stilted fashion, readers like to know that a real person
has written the article so be yourself when writing. Keep your
articles to around five hundred words, they can be shorter
but five hundred is the average. If your article turns out to be
around a thousand words then break it up and make it into two
articles, most people get bored with long articles and never
read through to the end. Your bio at the end of the article is
equally important, tell the readers a bit about yourself, your
expertise in what you do, also add your website address so
readers will visit your website as extra traffic is what you are
looking for. |