- By Tony Robbinson
- Published 06/2/2011
- Article Writing
One of the best ways that you will find to promote any products that you might have for sale is by writing articles about them. If you have a very nicely written article about your website and your products you are going to be able to boost traffic to your site and in turn be able to promote your products better. Follow the tips below to help you with building that perfect article. When you first start, it’s probably a good idea for you to sit down and write out an outline of what you want to put in your article. This is going to help make sure that what you put in your article is going to flow smoothly and you won’t forget to put in any important ideas that might be crucial to getting people to your site to see your products. You need to come up with a title that will reflect immediately what your article is about and where it will be taking the person. Don’t be tricky or cute. People don’t want to feel like they have been lied to after they get half way through the article. So make sure the title gives as much information as it can.
It’s important that the paragraphs that you write aren’t super long. Keep them as short as you can and still give good information in the process. You want your article to be easy on the eyes and one that encourages the person to read it. Also a note here, if you have a list o
f things you want to put in your articles try using bullets, people love lists. Even if the information isn’t all that exciting you still need to try and make sure that the way you write the article is in some way fun and or entertaining. Let your personality come out in the article. Do your best not to bore the person to tears. Give examples in your articles and not boring facts. Make sure that you do your best to reflect back to everyone through your article who the person behind it really is. If you are quirky, then be quirky. If you like poking fun at yourself, then do a little of that too. Before you start the actual process of writing your wonderful little article make sure that you do a keyword research. This is going to help you get your work of art higher up the ladder in the search engines. It’s probably best if you try and keep it to just one keyword or one keyword phrase. Nothing like those articles that have so many keywords in them that the article begins to not even make sense by the time you are finished with it.
Make sure that you have your keyword in your title and then put it in a few placing in your article making sure that you do have it in your last paragraph. You don’t need to have it in every single paragraph. Besides a lot of people get annoyed with this because readers aren’t stupid, they know what keywords are. So let’s show them a little respect for the intelligence they do happen to have.