Making a good article is a little more than just writing letters and sentences. Maybe that’s good for an ordinary book, but not good enough for the internet.
A good article must have sentences and smaller titles in bold. This gives the reader a bit of a change along the way plus it emphasizes the content that is coming next. If you just keep writing everything with the same colour and size, the reader’s mind will be sleeping and not paying full attention to it.
Use images to give the content a face. I can see the best articles on the internet are those who use at least one image with them. I remember articles better when they have an image with them. Why images? They carry emotional content with them! You remember emotions better than anything else! You always feel with emotions not with letter and numbers, you are not a computer. Use an image with a smaller title and another with the big title and something along the way to help the reader digest the information better.
Image via Wikipedia
Then start using some links. Links make you look more professional, add more value to the article and also engages the user more than just ordinary articles. Your links will tell the other page you are linking and maybe you will get a link back! Even if you don’t at least you make them notice your presence on the web. Links will also show you made the proper research before you talk, after all it’s all about who is referring you that counts. How many links should your article have? If you take a look at wikipedia it seems that almost every word is a link, this is why Wikipedia is so easy to use. Link every word you can. The best link colour is still the blue.
Finally do not forget to add links, I mean full links and not just one Word. You can make a small list with two maybe three links to another articles you might have. You do not even have to write them each time. Just copy and paste them from another place like a txt document.
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August 15th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Great advice thanks Redburn.
RJ