Thursday, February 12, 2009

7 Article Writing Mistakes To Avoid

By Article Traffic School

Article Mistake #1 Bad english

The first thing you should take note about your article is that it should not have any spelling mistakes or grammatical error. Keep the language in your article consistent, If you are writing with the first person voice (I, Me), make sure you use it through out the article and not change.

Article Mistake #2 Too much hype, bragging and self-promotion.

Self praise is no praise. If you write a lot about how good you are within the article, readers may get frustrated. If you are really good in the topic, it should reflect in the article not through your self promotion.

Article Mistake #3 Content based on what your reader wants to learn.

Write for a purpose. You write articles because you want people to read them, so you need to tailor your articles to their wants. design your topic and contents to feed their wants. Do your homework and find out what are the hot questions readers are searching for.

Article Mistake #4 Writing topics that is too brief

Readers want to find a solution, if your article is too brief and does not elaborate much to answer their question, they will not visit your link or website, readers want good deep articles. Writing deep articles can help you get more followers of your articles.

Article Mistake #5 Bad article title

The headline is often ~95% of the initial reason why someone might read your article or pass it over for another article. Don't bore your audience out of the gate with a dull headline or worse, a boring introduction to the article. Keep it simple and make it brief. Use keyword research tools to optimize your article title.

Article Mistake #6 Copying

It's ok to research the Internet for your article ideas, but it is wrong to copy word-for-word of any other writer's article.

Article Mistake #7 Don't overload the resource box

Use the resource box appropriately, you can have one or maximum 2 links in the resource box, but you should not have more than 2 links. Include the important ones in the resource box and leave the other affiliate links in your own website.

Even if you really want to have include your affiliate link, do it discreetly. Buy a domain and mask the affiliate link over it. - 17944

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