Fast Writing
Written content is the lifeblood of attracting traffic to your money pages on the internet.
Your daily content plan should include:
- 400-500 word articles for syndication in major article directories
- 500-800 word articles to be posted as content pages on your own website
- 250-800 word blog posts providing daily content to keep your blog fresh and dynamic
- short, written descriptions that accompany videos that you share with video directories such as YouTube, Viddler, etc…
For content to be effective, you must start with high ROI (Return On Investment) keywords for your offering – over at InfoMarketer’sZone we share our very exclusive system we use to go from thousands of potential keywords down to the 20-30 highest response keywords in a very short period of time for any given market, product and website.
Armed with 20-30 top producing keywords for your product, generating content means more traffic and more money in your pocket.
Speedy Article Writing
Many people complain it takes them 1-hour or more to write a single article, blog posting or content piece — it doesn’t have to be that way.
Here are 5 tips for making article writing faster and simpler:
1. Start with a question. Our mind thinks so much more clearly when we are answering a question. Think about the hundreds of questions our mind answers every day, no wonder it is so used to thinking in this way. With a focus for your article in answering a question, you can often cut your article writing or blog post writing time down to 10-15 minutes. Use questions that come directly from your market (discussion forums, other article titles or blog posts, books, surveys, etc… ) to make your content especially effective.
2. Speak your article or content. If you find writing challenging, then simply take a few minutes to record your answer to the question that guides your content and then have it transcribed into text – you can do that yourself after or have a transcription service do it for a few buck. Often you can speak your article in under 5-minutes.
3. Tips Articles. A great format that is simple and quick to write for articles is the “tips” format. For example, 5 Tips For Losing 10lbs In 30-Days or 10 Tips To Be A Better Parent. Typically these are quick to write since there isn’t tremendous detail given on each tip.
4. Refer to Other Content. I have a class of articles, blog posts or content where I refer to recent research, a recent finding, experience or other event where the article is mainly recounting existing information, albeit in your words and with your take on the content. This is done very quickly since writing “about” something is quicker than coming up with your content from nothing.
5. Write first, edit later. Too many people write a few lines and then edit what they wrote, completely breaking their thought pattern. When you start writing, keep it up until you are finished. You can go back and edit later, but what you want to do is get your thoughts out as quickly as possible without judgement.
Finally, one last bonus tip – the more you write content, the easier it will get.
You may also find, as I do, that certain days content comes to you easily while other days it is more challenging. I often will keep going if I feel things are really flowing that day…sometimes finishing an entire week’s worth of content generation in a single sitting instead of fighting through a day where things just aren’t going as well.
