Alot of the webmasters find it rather hard to write a decent text for their website. Most of the time this is a matter of lack of experience. With alot of things it is that you just have to start en take the time to get some information about the topic that you would like to write about. All of us started learning cycling and swimming, we couldn't do it the first time we did it but practice sure will help. This also counts for writing texts for your website, it will take some time to practice and experience will also help. 

 If own a website it is important to place text on it. The text will help other people to find your website through search engines like google.com . When you are placing a text it is often adviced to place additional photo's or pictures to make it pleasant for the reader to read.

What is important when you are writing articles?

A few things are really important while writing content, I listed them in the following list:
  • The text shouldn't be copy pasted from another website. Also you can't litterly copy a text from books or newspapers. This means that your text has to be unique to get new visitors. Ofcourse you are allowed to use texts from other people as a source, and it would help the authors if you give credits to them at the bottom of your text.
  • The text must be pleasing to read (place pictures, not too complicated senctences etc...).
  • The text must contain relevant information (this will attract more readers).
  • The grammer must be decent enough to not stumble upon every sentence.
  • Use headers which contain keywords, this enables your articles to be found easier with search engines.
  • The text shouldn't be too long, not boring and neither should it be too short. If you write about 300 - 400 words on a page it will be enough.


Where to find text for your website

If you don't have time to write text for your website, and you are prepared to pay for unique texts than you could hire a textwriter who could write original texts for your websites. However most of the time this will cost you some money and they aren't that cheap. So there are a few possibilities:
  • You could ask someone in your environment who would like to write. You could ask that person to write texts together or you could ask him/her for advice
  • You could write the text on your own.
  • You could hire someone to write posts for you (for example: textbroker is a good site to get writers). 


Writing texts by yourself

To write content for you site you have to keep te following things in your mind:
  • Write down on which page you would like to write what topic, this will keep your website clean.
  • Make sure that your site has easily switches to other articles (maybe tabpages?).
  • Sum the most important information together on the first page.
  • Read other articles about the topic that you would like to write about to get a impression what attracts other people.
  • Keep the text short and simple, but don't make it too short.
  • Avoid moving pictures and flash-banners, unless it addds something to your site.
If you are having a hard time writing your texts you could ask yourself some questions and answer them later on. for example if you have a website about a dinner opportunity you could ask some questions which would get asked by your customers :
  • Are we 24/7 available?
  • How much does everything cost?
  • Do we deliver our meals?
  • And so on...
By asking questions which you will answer later you could write more and better texts when time passes by.


The power of headers
 
You probably noticed already that i am using headers, this makes it easier to read and it makes the articles attractive to see.
  • Post short block of texts with headers, and some white lines between every paragraph, this will give a calmer look to your articles.
  • Use a font that is easy to read and don't post too much text that is one of the three styles that i used in this sentence (fat, cursive or underlined).
  • If you wrote too much text look back and think of things that you could erase or things which needs extra attention. Also don't use small fonts size 12 or 14 is often the best thing to choose. For the header you have to change the font/size/colour to draw the attention of readers.
  • If you think that you are done writing the article re-read them and ask people in your neighborhoud to read it and write down what they think that is clear, and what must be added also you could ask them to spot grammer mistakes.
  • When you received the feedback improve your text!


Photo's on your website

It is recommedend to place some pictures/videos on your website, not too much and not next to nothing. You must see it like this, people woud like to stay on a site where there is something to read or to learn. They will visit your site as long as there is something to do or if there is something which is intresting to read. Also when people are surfing the internet most of the time they are looking for information / services or products. Try to give men what they are looking for. Be clear in your messages and make sure that you are easy to contact when people would like to contact you. Photo's / video's or pictures are another addition to your article.

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