I am writing online for about three years now (two in English) and I picked some knowledge by the way. I am not one of the gurus who know all, but just a regular guy who managed to get from 'clueless' to 'several thousand unique visitors a day'. Let me share some (but not all) of this knowledge with you, so you can have better start with your online projects.
For your convenience I created step by step cheat sheet to follow which can be used in all web related writings.
Here we go with my top 10 how to write online tips:
(all used images are PD and RF, sources Pixabay and Wikimedia)
And how do you write online?
Sorry, blackspanielgallery for my late response ... In my opinion there is no need to worry about the flow of words, you just need to find the keywords which are actually searched for and apply them wherever they can be used in, as we may say, flowy way (title, subtitle, name of used picture etc.) The main concern should be to write about topics which are in demand and understanding the vocabulay used in the specific area of expert / searchers.
Have a happy keyword reasearch and a happy New Year!
The part I am weak on is key words. I have not done research there because I like the flow of words
I guess wish for learning is essential part of on-line working:) Thank you, WriterArtist!
I am writing for almost 5 years now and still there is so much to learn. Making money online is not easy at all. Thanks for these valuable tips.
Thanks for your comment, ologsinquito!
This is very good advice, especially for all the new writers now arriving at Wizzley.
I think you mean PageRank when you are talking about sites' authority (I have an article about PageRank too) and page rank when you are talking about positions in list of search results.
Yes, higher PageRank of the site can boost your positions, but the key is relevancy. You need really well written articles and some authority to be successful. With bigger authority you can still pass with worse quality...
I don't believe anybody can have 'too much links'. Who has more links than Google itself? But you can have 'too much bad links' or 'not enough quality links'. I see bad interpretation of Google's guidance (which basically didn't change since Google's existance) every day and one of these days I will write full article on this subject too.
I agree on the 'good quality' - this should be proper direction. Unfortunately a lot of very poorly written stuff can be find on top positions thanks to huge wholes in SE's algos. It seems they don't really care. Thanks for you comment, MgaMaayongMensahe and welcome to Wizzley!
@sheilamarie Happy to hear that:)
Thank you, Tolovaj. Your experience is valuable to us all.
There are many factors to consider when we compare squidoo, hubpages and wizzley.. For competitive keywords pages with highest authority (domain age, link profile, PageRank, relevant internal linking etc.) have better chance. On the other hand I can rank for some keywords on Wizzley much easier because I don't have competition here. I can't get traffic on anything related to Rapunzel on Squidoo because there are much more powerful lenses related to this kw already ranking.
Wizzley has good foundation but without more links coming from outside it can really take a long time to rank for competitive kws. Unfortunately at the moment I don't see many authors providing quality links to articles. Without that the progress will be really slow and since squidoo switched on nofollow, a lot of already gained authority was lost and traffic dropped thanks to that fact too.
And yes, you are right about crap. Supported with right authority you can rank for just about anything. This is simple truth about search engines. They can't determine if something is really good stuff. They just calculate and show you the winner. If it is crap, you can always click on ads...