Six Hints: How to Make Your Writings Get Into the Hot Content List
A brief but useful guide on how to get your works to the Triond Hot Content list.
After I published the “Six Newbie Tips to Succeed on Triond” which was based on my observation in the Triond community I still can’t help observing Triond further. As I clicked on “Explore” to find the names of those who left comments on my writings, I would always be able to drop by in the “Hot Content” section. This made me look and observe what makes a content “hot”. Here are my observations:
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Pictures and Superlatives or Extreme Adjectives
No, pictures alone won’t make your work “hot”. It should be pictures with a title that include adjectives such as “Amazing,” “Stunning,” and “Bizarre”. Superlatives like “the most” or “the top” also makes it hot. A combination of both makes it “hotter.”
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Title
Titles are so deceiving. Even if the content is not as interesting or as “hot” as the title suggests it makes everyone want to read your work.
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Numbers
List-style as Nelson Doyle calls it give titles (and contents) more focus. It should be more than five. “Five Ways” or “Ten Uses” suggest more content and more worth the reading than four below. Ten is probably the most used.
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Nature
Anything about nature will interest the majority as long as hints one through three above are applied.
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Computers and the Internet
Computer gadgets and interesting or helpful websites are also “hot”. Again, superlatives or extreme adjectives apply as well as the number.
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Focus on the Majority
The content and title should interest the majority. A native recipe in a particular country that uses native ingredients will only interest the countrymen. The “Ten Most Beautiful Women around the World” will be more interesting to the majority than “The Most Beautiful or the Sexiest Women in a Particular Country.”
Lastly but more importantly, contents should always be original, unique and fresh just as Triond wants it to be.
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September 13th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
as a more creative writer i find it rather annoying to be constantly barraged by “the ten most” and “very bizare” headlines in articals i often avoid reading these as they mostly repeat what iv allready heard dont get me wrong there are some good articals with this in the title but i find them less often than i find a good advert if you get what i mean.
September 18th, 2008 at 12:41 am
I like this.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Love your article. I learned a lot. If you would be so kind, where do people get these pictures? Are they not copyrighted. I have several ideas for articles that would include pictures, but I do not know where to get them. Thanks.
October 1st, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Writers get the pictures from different sources. Flickr and wikipedia are probably the most used. Most writers include a clickable image source link as a way of crediting the owner of the pictures. You can also always Google your images. I hope this helps. Thanks for dropping by. Hope to see your works in the HOT CONTENT LIST.
Good luck!
October 7th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Liked your article. Thanks for the info. I am a relative newbie and can use all the help I can get.
November 19th, 2008 at 12:59 am
Great article. Perfect for us newbies. Thanks about the update on out Hotlist articles.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:12 am
I also like keeping it brief. People actually DON’T read the article but thier darting eyes spy PHRASES.
I stopped doing the numbers thang’ ( Three only ) and started getting into formatting; which as you say is all in the TITLE. I put bullet points in now as well.
I punctuate a lot, as it is my pepper and spice. Thank-you, j
February 19th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Im going to need, this cause some of my better work doesnt make it while other stuff does, im going to try the “amazing” and “bizzare” trick.
good article.
August 8th, 2009 at 3:12 am
Interesting
September 16th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Great tips ; )
October 4th, 2010 at 4:41 am
Hi,
Insert THAT into the work-history section of your resume to fill the hole. … Students can make their resume look neater by listing seasonal jobs
Thanks,
Allec