They call blogs to be ‘parasitic’ medium – what the hell!

I was reading an article on Online Journalism Review titled “Are blogs a ‘parasitic’ medium?” by Robert Niles. I really wanted to write something in this regard – no doubt!
The article claims that honorable journalists have coined a new term for blogs – a parasitic medium! Great coinage – undoubtedly – they think that we [...]

Doubts on top tools, easy tips and simple steps to…

Whenever I come across some articles with such a starting:
10 tips for……………………….
Or
7 great ways to make…………….
Or
3 steps to………………….
Or
Top ten tools to ……………
Or
How to….in three easy steps…
I become doubtful. I can’t help a giggle!
The very next thought that comes to my mind is either he had no idea on what to write or he hardly [...]

How to write optimized press releases – an intro!

Press releases are more influential than seo articles!
If you don’t agree to it, think about your own approach to press releases!
Don’t you wait to read about the latest developments of mobile phone (say, you are a mobile freak) in the morning newspaper! And don’t you rely on them more then the advertisements that tell you [...]

Writing effective titles for your copy or article – A MUST!

I came across an interesting article on “How You Can Write Effective Titles” by DG.
A good article undoubtedly, but seemed to me that it was lacking something.
What the article was lacking:
Whenever you are writing an article, you are necessarily writing it with some target readers in mind, who may need some information on the topic.
And [...]

How to write SEO Articles - Things to Ask to the clients

Normally clients, who want us to ghost-write their articles for SEO or other purpose, arm us with a few keywords and URL of the website.
One thing must be clarified over here; we compliment each other. I can write article that someone will be interested in reading and you have the knowledge and experience of your [...]

Use of words and phrases in web content writing!

Should we maintain a natural flow of fixing words while writing web content? Or should we stick to the same group of key words!
Ideally the thumb rule says a single page should target a single keyword!
This is not a rule of thumb the other way round as I perceive.
If Latent Semantic Indexing is introduced [...]

Web Content Writing: Use of Industry Specific Terms

Most of web content writers like us are not specific field experts.
Say for example, I have no idea about digital printing, or breathable fabrics but I need to write pages on this topic. And topic changes every other day.
We need to start from nowhere most of the time. To add to this, we [...]

Web Content Writing – When and how people feel comfortable!

Few days back I asked a question on Yahoo Answers. The question goes like: When do you feel comfortable reading a web page!
The answer I have received so far:
PokerChip gives a one liner: “straight to the point of the topic”
From Raghavendra Mudugal I find:

Content should be well organized
It should tell on the topic with [...]

Winning reader’s faith: Alarming Survey results

A survey was done by Princeton Survey Research Associates for Consumer WebWatch among 1500 American internet Users that should sound alarming to commercial sites.
The survey results are based on interviews with 1,500 Internet users age 18 and older, conducted for Consumer WebWatch by Princeton Survey Research Associates. The Internet users were identified from among 2,542 [...]

Web Content Writing: How you Say is Important than What you Say

Internet Marketing Monitor has come up with a good article on content writing. They have referred to another article on web content writing - “Resolve to Produce Great Content” by P.J. Fusco in this regard.
This article tries to analyze the edge between good content and great content using examples from different websites targeting same [...]