When you are shooting for the
star, you get a star. Logic here is very simple – do not get your eyes crossed.
Keep on topic right through. Articles and keywords are linked through content
and its presentation. If you are baking apple pies, then everything must be
dealing with apple pies. If you suddenly start talking about cooking a turkey readers
will get their goose cooked.
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Content and presentation revolve around an idea –
topic you choose, say it is
“Moon, our natural satellite”. You write about how
it reflects light from the Sun, the gravitational force on the moon and how man
launched rockets to travel to moon and find out what is present there. People
who write on technical subjects too have to follow format.
I)
Common mistakes by
writers
A) Creating ‘blank verse’
Many authors specialize in
‘blank verse’. They write the first thing that comes to their minds and then
finish it when their ‘ink’ runs dry.
There is no schema there is no planned approach to topic and mostly the
thought flow is uninspiring and dry. It is as interesting as smelling dried cow
dung preserved for days at an end. They start with the ‘moon’ and end with a ‘stare’.
This “idyllic” state is filled with some inane ramblings of self-glorification
and insane repetitions. Of course, blank verse has its own takers too.
Content without any direction
is a waste of time. If you are to write even two lines, if it makes sense to
majority of readers, then your time is well spent. When the beginning and
ending are not linearly aligned and there is no grammar the idea of creating
articles filled with “blank verse” is bound to mislead every reader who comes
across it. A better idea would be to submit empty sheets as your “article” – at
least they will not mislead anyone.
B)
No details for your
content
When you present some topic it
must be detailed into items and subdivided into paragraphs. Now, let us say,
you were talking about literature and suddenly decided to introduce comedy. You
must elucidate comedy with some example and quote an example. If there are
learned people who have read what you are quoting they will appreciate it. If
you use “Why did the chicken cross the road?” kind of comic statements, readers
will hurry off to find something better to do. If you are writing about a
plant, you subdivide content into paragraphs and keep presentation interesting
by quoting some examples.
Idea of subdividing your
article into small bits or items helps readers choose what they do not know and
read about it. This is success for any writer. Concentrate on achieving this
since everything will fall in place when you have made steps that are easy to
follow. You could break your article into the following topics.
a)
Preparing your kitchen
garden
b)
Prepare nursery
c)
Preparing garden soil
d)
Sowing and growing
e)
Pests and insecticides
f)
Protecting from grass
and weeds
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In a separate section, you
could also deal with harvest and sales of your produce. You could include
packing methods and preservation techniques. Of course a study of market
conditions and techniques would prove invaluable.
II)
Common errors in
article writing
Article writers use
repetitions that make readers wonder what exactly is going on. Even experienced
writers sometimes commit simple grammatical mistakes that make the article look
very bad. For this reason, one has to revise the article before they submit it.
Usage error for many writers
This is a look at some typical
errors that many writers overlook.
1) Can’t—won’t: When you
use these two words, you are distinguishing between the choice available to the
doer of the action and the absence of choice.
2) Than—then: This is
simple and experienced writers do not commit this writing error. While the first
is used to do comparison, the latter is always used to follow up a conditional
statement.
3)
Who—which—that: This is
a puzzle that experienced writers too commit, mainly because they cannot be
bothered to keep on correcting the computer. They will use the correct form ‘that’
and computer will suggest ‘who’ or ‘whom’. When this happens repeatedly, they
just give up and use the computer suggestion. Which and that are indications of
inanimate things or actions while who definitely is someone animate. When you
do not have to make a clear distinction you use ‘that’ while ‘which’ is used to
make definite distinctions.
Use of keywords
Interspersing keywords into
the article is vital. It tells where your stress lies and why your thought flow
is as it is. You might not understand this but think
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about it as oars – you are
navigating your boat across to the other side. Without oars, you are at the
mercy of the stream.
When you are writing about
baking bread, you must use all related keywords such as ‘oven’, ‘flour’, ‘bake’,
‘yeast’ and maybe ‘nuts’ if you want. Articles that do not write about all
these will be overlooked by search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo. Though each
search engine has its own definitions for qualifying as top-ranking article,
the common list shows how articles must be attractive, use uniformly
distributed keywords, have organic traffic and have organized links.
III)
Bring interest in your
article
Finding ways to keep content
absorbing
Readers do not care to spend
time over “perhaps it could be” and “you should try something”. They want
results and action – if you provide it they will read your article.
Make the article
incident-based: When I was walking to the train station this morning on my way
to the office, I noticed a small chap running around a puddle by the side of
the road. This is perfectly normal since most lads like to
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play around, except that
this boy was blind. Got your attention – the boy does it every day.
Write article in present tense:
Do never wander into the past – it spoils reader interest. When you learn to
write in present tense, you learn to writer perfect articles.
Keep asking readers some
questions: This is vital since if do not ask questions then the person will not
want to read anymore. Why is this article different? Because, it deals with one
important aspect of online article writing – optimization. If your article is
not optimized (like mentioned in the steps above), your article will not be
recognized on the Internet.
Having the sum of article writing strategies in your grasp, it is time to take up your pen. It is time for
creating articles and penning content with spectacular presentations that wow
readers world over. You can begin now.
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