Being in the business of search engine optimization and writing articles can be a bit of a daunting process in itself. There are many people who will tell you that they know of no other way on the internet to generate revenue besides creating articles and placing them on their website. But when it comes to the articles on their websites, what constitutes a good, readable article? How will online users be drawn to it and how do you keep them reading? This often involves employing several techniques and some of them are laid out before you in the never-ending quest for well-written article that you know with confidence that you can write!

Number One Technique: Informative Articles

The first item of business is to create an informative topic and article that you know online users will want to read? What, exactly, is that topic? The answer to that question, however, lies with almost everyone who has ever used the internet, but the point is not to pick a topic that you think people will read about, but to write an article about any topic that uses will read. If the article is a well-informative article that is filled with lots of facts and information, more people may be drawn into it. However, if the article is poorly written and is filled with many grammatical errors, those errors alone could discourage a person from continuing to read the specific article that you wrote. Also, you want to be sure that you are not putting any false information into the article, either. If an online user catches you falsifying information then they will almost always catch you on it!

Subtitles and Headings

A second technique that people will often use to boost the interest in the article as well as make it more scan-able to the audience is through the use of subtitles and headings. Subtitles make the articles scan-able. If someone is just browsing through the article, they will usually look for subheadings and titles that stand out so that they will be able to skip down to that section. Also, the subheadings don't necessarily have to be an attention grabber either, but just using the technique of subheadings will make people enjoy your article a whole lot more. But if you are comfortable with creating subheadings for the articles that you write, go ahead and make the subheadings more unique and attention-grabbing. Not only will this make the chance even higher that people will read your article, but it will intrigue them as well!

Though there is no fool-proof way to write an excellent article, all of these tips will help you create an article that just may be promoted through the search engines quicker, easier, and better also. The process of writing a well-written article will give online users something to enjoy. If they enjoy it, chances are that they will come back to your website over and over again. Do yourself a favor and start writing informative, attention-grabbing, well-written articles if you ever want to generate revenue and traffic for your website!

Jane Scaplen
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