Six tips to write outstanding web content
It seems like nowadays, anyone a computer and an internet connection can start a blog or website and slap together a few sentences to create “content”. However, creating outstanding website content that surfers actually crave, bookmark, share with friends and print out to take to bed, requires planning and taking a series of careful steps.
The steps for writing outstanding web content (some bloggers and webmasters refer to it as “flagship” or “staple” content) are:
Deciding the type of article (soft or hard news) and generating ideas for it.
Gathering facts and background information
Coming up with a winning angle
Writing the first draft
Polishing your writing
And finally, fine-tuning it to be distribution-friendly and optimizing it for both the search engines and the “social media” networks.
1 Comment to Six tips to write outstanding web content
I would have to say that it takes a lot more than that. There is also keywording and about three other steps to make the content worth publishing.
September 25, 2008