A guide that points out certain features that a good article has.
Triond is an amazing website where people can submit articles or visual art and get paid. The key is in this guide and should help to increase your amount of income.
The subject of your article should be either connected to world news or about something extraordinary that happened to you or someone else. It could also be a guide or a short story. What ever it is it must be interesting. It must speak to the person so they will cry in exclamation, “Wow, what a great article!” Or, “Cool, I never knew that!”
Pictures are an important aspect to any good article. Catching the readers attention with a good picture, could change a good article into a great article. Irrelevant or uninteresting pictures will just bring your whole article down. Another thing to remember is that most people would rather look at funny pictures, so including at least one of these “funny pictures” is defiantly going to catch the readers’ attention.
Tagging your article correctly is one of the most important steps to writing a good article. Mess this up and you might as well say goodbye to that great article you wrote. Knowing how to tag your article is also important. Make sure you tag all the topics that are described in your article, just leaving out one tag could be the difference of 10 comments to 100 comments.
Yah. Now comes the fun part. Making friends is not really building a relationship but merely showing people you appreciate their articles and that you would like to share your articles with them. To make a friend just go to any authors that you admire and click add friend. Now every time you submit an article they will get a message about it and vice-versa.
The last point is READ!
Reading can really help you write better articles. Read as much as possible and eventually you may even be reading your own book. What also might help, is if you try reading some books that explain how to write a good book. Some of those tips helped me start writing again.
Hope this guide helps with any future articles.
November 20th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Helpful tips Michael! A lotta newbies will find this very useful..
On a technical note, try and expand your desc; the desc is what shows up when your article gets listed by a search engine..
So the better is sounds, the more likely you’re to get hits!
November 20th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Great points. I’d also suggest paying a lot of attention to the title of an article. It’s what grabs people’s attention more than anything else.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Very informative article. thanks.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Very good guide – keep up the nice work!
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
November 20th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Not to repeat what has been said, but the title is immensly important. I am finding this out more and more. Good article.
November 20th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Yes READ! Reading articles on Triond is one of my inspirations in my writings. It’s like a light switch. I’ve written about stuff I never thought I could. I’m learning a lot here.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:10 am
I’m a newbie and this is a helpful addition on my learning curve. Thanks.
December 6th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Hey micheal, this is a good post, even for an experianced triond user, there are some useful tips on making a great article. keep up the good work!
January 8th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Great article, titles and tags are the most important features to promote an article, in my opinion. I’ve been attracted to certain eye catching articles! And I should add social bookmarking, too. It hasn’t work wonders for me, though, but most people have positive comments about Stumble, Digg, Delicious, etc.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:12 am
hey thanks I am new here so it was very helpful to read this.
May 6th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Nice post. Very helpful indeed