Four Useful Article Writing Tips for Beginners
If you're new to article marketing - whether that's writing articles for sites like this one or for your own blog or a mixture - it can be hard to know where to begin.
There are conflicting views on everything in article marketing, just like there are conflicting views on everything else.
After all, both teams can't win the Super Bowl but that doesn't stop both side's supporters thinking they're right! 1.
Pick a topic This might sound obvious but it's not as easy as it sounds.
Your topic should be narrow enough that you're not competing with millions of other pages whilst it's broad enough to attract at least some readers.
You should know your main topic area, otherwise you don't really have any business to be writing about your chosen niche.
Then you should drill down to come up with a title that generate interest and clicks.
A quantity of tips - like this article - is a good start if you're stuck and almost always goes down well.
2.
Decide on the sub-topics you'll cover The numbered bullet points in this article are a good way of doing this.
The good news is that when you outline your articles this way, it's then a relatively easy task to write the final article, based on the sub-topics you've decided on.
3.
Flesh out your sub-topic titles It really is that easy! Simply flesh out each sub-topic so that you've covered what it promises.
In much the same way as you'd write an email to a friend or chat to them over a coffee.
Nothing complicated - a hundred or so words will cover it.
If you need more than about double that, consider splitting the sub-topic in two.
If it's less, don't panic.
If your final article is too short, you can add an introduction and a conclusion (call them something more interesting than that though!) or you can expand on one or two of your topics or you can add another sub-topic to your article.
On your own blog, I'd suggest a minimum word count of around 300 words, ideally more.
On a site like this one, the minimum word count varies (upwards) over time.
Back in the early days, it was 250 words, then 300 words.
Nowadays it's at least 400 words but you're rewarded with the option of longer anchor text for the links in your bio when you go over 500 words.
Which tells you what they'd prefer.
Of course, if you're reading this a few years after I've written it, that range may have changed.
It's important to keep up to speed with that kind of thing.
Other sites - including places that accept guest blog articles - have their own rules.
4.
Keep at it Like most things, practice helps a lot.
If you're like most people, your first few articles will seem like you've just written a book.
As time goes by, you'll get better at it and words will flow from your head onto the screen as if by magic.
But you won't know that until you actually create your first article! So make a start and then promise yourself that you'll write at least one article each and every day for the next month, which will help it become habit as well as improving your style.
There are conflicting views on everything in article marketing, just like there are conflicting views on everything else.
After all, both teams can't win the Super Bowl but that doesn't stop both side's supporters thinking they're right! 1.
Pick a topic This might sound obvious but it's not as easy as it sounds.
Your topic should be narrow enough that you're not competing with millions of other pages whilst it's broad enough to attract at least some readers.
You should know your main topic area, otherwise you don't really have any business to be writing about your chosen niche.
Then you should drill down to come up with a title that generate interest and clicks.
A quantity of tips - like this article - is a good start if you're stuck and almost always goes down well.
2.
Decide on the sub-topics you'll cover The numbered bullet points in this article are a good way of doing this.
The good news is that when you outline your articles this way, it's then a relatively easy task to write the final article, based on the sub-topics you've decided on.
3.
Flesh out your sub-topic titles It really is that easy! Simply flesh out each sub-topic so that you've covered what it promises.
In much the same way as you'd write an email to a friend or chat to them over a coffee.
Nothing complicated - a hundred or so words will cover it.
If you need more than about double that, consider splitting the sub-topic in two.
If it's less, don't panic.
If your final article is too short, you can add an introduction and a conclusion (call them something more interesting than that though!) or you can expand on one or two of your topics or you can add another sub-topic to your article.
On your own blog, I'd suggest a minimum word count of around 300 words, ideally more.
On a site like this one, the minimum word count varies (upwards) over time.
Back in the early days, it was 250 words, then 300 words.
Nowadays it's at least 400 words but you're rewarded with the option of longer anchor text for the links in your bio when you go over 500 words.
Which tells you what they'd prefer.
Of course, if you're reading this a few years after I've written it, that range may have changed.
It's important to keep up to speed with that kind of thing.
Other sites - including places that accept guest blog articles - have their own rules.
4.
Keep at it Like most things, practice helps a lot.
If you're like most people, your first few articles will seem like you've just written a book.
As time goes by, you'll get better at it and words will flow from your head onto the screen as if by magic.
But you won't know that until you actually create your first article! So make a start and then promise yourself that you'll write at least one article each and every day for the next month, which will help it become habit as well as improving your style.
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