How To Write An Article – Effective & SEO For Noobs and Newbies.
Learn how to write an article that makes you money passively for the long term and the effective use of SEO in your Article Writing.
In the last article, I shared many sites where you can apply to become a writer and get paid to write a few hundred to a thousand words and make a side income every month.
If you haven’t read that one, visit Get Paid To Write. I’ve shared sites based on niches and also in general sites that will accept your application without any qualification.
Now, some of the sites may require some kind of experience and maybe past projects like your own websites or “IF” you have done any freelancing work as a portfolio.
Now, this is not necessary but if you have a portfolio then that would increase your chances of earning more and getting accepted faster.
Now, what to do if you don’t get accepted instantly into any of the high-paying sites, and now you are all demotivated.
Well, then you will have to along a simple strategy, that is often used in freelancing. No, I won’t ask you to work for a free to build a portfolio and then reach out with cold calls and emails for projects.
You simply have to apply to the sites that do not require much or any qualification or portfolio from the applicants, BUT their payouts are also not that handsome compared to the sites that ask for portfolios.
Yeah, I know it’s a bit disappointing but this is the only option left now since you are a newbie and do not have much experience.
The plan is simple, first, you have gotta get in the low-paying, easy-accepting sites and work there for a few weeks, grow your experience and earn some decent amount from there.
That’s your portfolio now, second step is to apply to the high-paying sites that require a bit more experienced applicants than complete noobs.
You will surely get in since you have the experience with freelancing stuff now and you’ve already worked and earned with writing articles.
Now, by the second or third month, you must have been accepted into at least three different high-paying sites one by one and Wallah! you have a strong portfolio now.
Before moving onto the final step of your financial freedom journey with article writing let’s learn an effective way to write articles so that you do not face any major problems in your journey to the top.
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Tips To Write Good Articles
We will also talk about the importance of SEO in this article later, but for now, let’s learn the tips to write good articles and you can insert the SEO part later in any article you write.
SEO simply means Search Engine Optimization, if you are completely a newbie, you may think it is too technical, but no, SEO for article writing is quite easy you don’t need to do any techy stuff, it’s quite simple for content writers and wannabe content writers like you.
Free Tools to Begin With:
Before starting out writing over any topic or say niche you are given, write down multiple ideas about how you can and what you can include while writing an article about the particular topic.
One great way to do that is to use free online tools to generate ideas around the niche you choose to write, this tool is often used by bloggers when they can’t find more ideas to write content for their audience.
Answer The Public
The tool is Answer The Public, simply write down the niche you want to write about for instance let’s take Dog grooming as our niche and see what results does this tool provides.
As you can see above it gave us a lot of ideas on the question-based terms to write about. These are the questions that are generally searched on the internet and the tool presents them all to us.
SeoPresser: Headline Generator
Now that you got an idea you need to create an enticing headline for viewers to read because It is the headline of any article that hooks the audience to read through the article completely.
Visit SeoPresser: Enter the term or keyword you want to write your article about. You also get to choose if the keyword you entered is a person’s name, a skill, an industry, and so on.
Hit the Generate Titles button and you get your results.
More Tips on Writing Better Headlines
Ever come across YouTube thumbnails saying stuff like The Top 10 Scariest Place, No. 5th Is My Favorite.
Now, this is an example of a good headline, It will hook users into thinking what is the number 5th and why is the favorite.
Now an Even better headline than this would be: The Top 13 Scariest Place, Jeff Bezos Have Visited Number 5th too.
Now, this is even better because, first: It uses an odd number which is a different thing to do, as you may have already noticed that most of the times you see numbers around, they are always in even, so using an odd number would make it look odd (different and more clickable title).
Also, using a Celebrity or famous figure increase the chances of people clicking on your videos or your article on the web among the competition.
Don’t use clickbait fake titles that have nothing to do with your content, or ultimately your video will get community guidelines to strike on youtube or very poor user engagement on your blog.
You can use these tips to write the whole content as well, to make your content more unique and interesting, not just the headline.
The simple formula is to make it unique: use odd things that nobody else is not using, writing sentences that strike emotions, share your personal view and ask to comment on their views from the views this will also increase user engagement on your content.
SEO: Search Engine Optimization
Now the whole purpose of learning to write an article for you is to just make money by offering it as a service on either the sites I shared with you in the previous article or on freelancing platforms.
If you write on your portfolio or bio on a freelancing platform that you write articles and not just articles but SEO-optimized articles then you will be getting high-paid projects and more projects than before.
Now I won’t go too deep about SEO so I’ll share only the practical and important tips with you.
Include the keyword in the first paragraph
You will always get a topic to write on. Let’s take “Dog Grooming” for example. Now the main keyword is Dog Grooming, which you need to mention at least once in the first paragraph you write. You can start with the short intro part after you write something about the main keyword in the first para.
Keyword Density
What is keyword density?
Sum up the total number of times you have included the main keyword in an article and divide it by the total number of words in an article. Multiply this by 100 to get a percentage. That is your keyword density.
Do not stuff the main keyword multiple times, instead maintain a keyword density of 2%-3% in every article you write.
Use of LSI Keyword
LSI (latent semantic indexing) keywords are keywords and terms that are similar or related to the article’s target (main) keyword.
You cannot use the main keyword more often than 3% but you can use related keywords. For example, Dog Grooming is the main keyword, then Grooming for dogs and Dog hairstylist are LSI keywords that you can use in your article.
So this is all for How to write an article in this post of Shifuguide.com. If you have any questions or want to know more about any new topic to make money online, comment down below and we shall fulfill your request.
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