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Before you write an article, consider the subject matter and audience. Ask yourself a few simple questions. Are you covering something with mass appeal? Or is it targeted to a more focused number of people? Is your topic seasonal or newsworthy? What’s the lifespan of your article? Will your topic be outdated by next spring? Obviously, you can’t expect every article you write to “speak to” millions of people. But by tailoring your approach to reach the most people possible, while keeping your content evergreen, you’ll increase its overall value. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t write on the World Series, but it’s probably not a good idea to write on this year’s World Series.

Article Length

The ideal article has from 400 to 600 words including the title, introduction, steps and tips and warnings. There may be cases where this word limit does not apply and articles will be shorter or longer, but a majority of well researched articles on the site fall in this range. Length can be lethal online…

Spelling and Grammar

eHow’s user-friendly article submission form comes with an automatic spell checker. Use it. Always keep in mind the importance of quality writing. You don’t have to be Hemingway with your prose, but attention to detail is critical to getting your point across and communicating your instructions clearly to the reader. Keep a dictionary by your side, and try to get a friend or colleague to take a look at your work when you’re finished.

Adding Photos

While the written instruction you have to offer is valuable, the demands of the average Internet user are becoming more diverse. With eHow’s writer form allowing easy upload of high resolution images, you can help your cause by quickly adding visual aids where possible. Recent site research has revealed that articles with images perform, on average, better than articles without them.

Suffering from Writer’s Block?

eHow features a special section called Top Requested Articles, where users suggest and rate topics that they would like to see covered in a How To article. The more people who rate the articles, the more points they’re worth, reflecting higher demand for the article. Check the Top Requested Articles list frequently. If you can write on one of the topics on the list, you have a pre-qualified audience.

How to get more traffic to your articles?


Use the Right Keywords

A few facts about search engines (i.e. Google, Yahoo!, Ask.com, etc.): Using the right keywords will help people searching on search engines to find your articles.

How does it work? A user performs a search on the search engine, and the search engine spits back a list of websites. Seems easy, but to decide which sites and web pages to show, a search engine evaluates more than 200 ranking factors; and the words on each web page are among the most important.

Word choice is critical in the article title, but it’s also important to use your keywords in the introduction and article steps. When selecting your title, think about the words you would put into the search engine box if you were looking for this information. Would you search for something like: “How to Take Gorgeous, Colorful Photographs While Snorkeling in the Pacific” or would you simply search for “How to Take Underwater Photos” or even just “underwater photos”?

Leave the clever hooks, flowery prose and double entendres to magazine writers. Online it’s about simplicity and clarity. Use “party” instead of “soiree,” “dog” instead of “man’s best friend,” “baseball” instead of “America’s pastime.” Think about how you would search for an article like yours and the keywords will follow.

Avoid Keyword Stuffing

Just because you decide to use “homemade pizza dough” or “yoga poses” as your keywords, there is no need to stuff those words into every sentence. Write naturally. Write conversationally. Use the keywords in your title, then a few times in the body, and your article will read well and rank well. Stuffing as many keywords as possible into your article will do neither.

Link to Your Articles from Other Websites

Drive traffic to your articles by linking to them from other websites.
Link to your articles from:
. Your own personal website or blog
. Websites and blogs belonging to friends or family
. Your business’ website
. Your profiles on social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn – Any site where you get to create a profile that’s all about you
. Your college or university alumni site
. Message Boards and Forums
. Social Q&A websites like Answerbag and Yahoo! Answers
. Wiki-based sites

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