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Article Writing Mistakes - 7 To Avoid

Making your articles available for reprints by other webmasters is the cornerstone strategy in building an avalanche of pre-qualified visitors to your website.

If you want your articles to be picked up and massively distributed by others, here are seven common mistakes to avoid:

Article Mistake #1. Too many grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors.
In addition to having your article proofed by others, you may also want to be sure that you have clearly defined paragraphs. Nothing is worse than a big blob of text with 20 run-on sentences.
Readers no longer read articles in depth and often only ’scan’ your article. They want small bites of information that can be easily digested… also known as “info-snacking.”
Keep your “voice” in the same person throughout the entire article. If you are using the first person voice or the second person or the third person be consistent by staying in one voice for the entire article.

Article Mistake #2. Too much hype, bragging and self-promotion.
If you are as good as you know you are, there is no reason to fill the body of the article with hype, gratuitous links to your site or blatant self-promotion. Readers are smart and will see right through your “hype-veil.”
Better to only sell or pitch your company in the RESOURCE BOX below the body of the article. The resource box often gets a 3% CTR (Click Through Rate). Be sure you take advantage of that by not selling hard in the body of the article.

Article Mistake #3. Content based on what you need to learn, not what your reader needs.
Put yourself in your reader’s shoes and ask yourself, “What does this article offer me?” Research what your reader wants to read by doing survey’s with your own audience or do keyword search engine research to find what people are looking for.

Continue reading here.. Article Writing Tips

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Article Writing Mistakes - 7 To Avoid

Making your articles available for reprints by other webmasters is the cornerstone strategy in building an avalanche of pre-qualified visitors to your website.

If you want your articles to be picked up and massively distributed by others, here are seven common mistakes to avoid:

Article Mistake #1. Too many grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors.
In addition to having your article proofed by others, you may also want to be sure that you have clearly defined paragraphs. Nothing is worse than a big blob of text with 20 run-on sentences.
Readers no longer read articles in depth and often only ’scan’ your article. They want small bites of information that can be easily digested… also known as “info-snacking.”
Keep your “voice” in the same person throughout the entire article. If you are using the first person voice or the second person or the third person be consistent by staying in one voice for the entire article.

Article Mistake #2. Too much hype, bragging and self-promotion.
If you are as good as you know you are, there is no reason to fill the body of the article with hype, gratuitous links to your site or blatant self-promotion. Readers are smart and will see right through your “hype-veil.”
Better to only sell or pitch your company in the RESOURCE BOX below the body of the article. The resource box often gets a 3% CTR (Click Through Rate). Be sure you take advantage of that by not selling hard in the body of the article.

Article Mistake #3. Content based on what you need to learn, not what your reader needs.
Put yourself in your reader’s shoes and ask yourself, “What does this article offer me?” Research what your reader wants to read by doing survey’s with your own audience or do keyword search engine research to find what people are looking for.

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