7 Steps to Perfect Content Writing

In writ­ing a point of view it is impor­tant to know the dif­fer­ence between facts and opin­ions. A fact is some­thing that is estab­lished as true. An opin­ion is the expres­sion of a point of view that is not estab­lished as true. It needs facts, or evi­dence, to be cred­i­ble. Blog­gers use facts (as well as com­mon sense, logic and some­times even emo­tional appeal) to per­suade their read­ers to agree with their opin­ion, point of view or suggestion.

When it comes down to the pure fun­da­men­tals of blog­ging, it’s all about your opin­ion. The Blo­gos­phere is built up on mil­lions of people’s thoughts, ideas and per­spec­tive on every­thing from Web Devel­op­ment to Pet-Care. Since your blog, is ded­i­cated to your stream-of-thought your ulti­mate goal is to use your imag­i­na­tion to cap­ture your audi­ence, so they will come back to read your next arti­cle. Even fac­tual niches like Sta­tis­ti­cal Con­tent are sub­ject to opinion.

What do I mean by that? Well, let’s take Teen­ProBlog­ger as an exam­ple; my aim here is to pro­vide you with SEO advice, and how to per­fect your blog. How­ever, hav­ing said that my tech­niques can dif­fer or some­times even opposes another blog­ger, writ­ing about the same topic. This dif­fer­ence is what ulti­mately decides whether you get the visitor’s read­er­ship or your com­pet­ing blogger.

So, how can you develop a rea­soned point of view that will keep your read­ers com­ing back? I always, I mean ALWAYS use this spe­cific set of guide­lines, and so far it’s worked out pretty well. Today, I want to share with you that bit of knowl­edge, or tech­nique to write a good rea­soned opin­ion. Let’s go;

1) Research & Think Care­fully – You need to ana­lyze your topic and be open to other people’s opin­ion at first. How­ever, don’t let them be influ­en­tial to your thought, but look around with what other peo­ple say and try and pick out fact from fiction.

2) Col­lect all the Points – One of the biggest mis­takes many blog­gers do is that, they start writ­ing with­out a set goal or clear pur­pose. Don’t do this, always have a clear con­tention and point to your con­tent, because if you don’t it is blindly obvi­ous when oth­ers read that content.

3) State Your Point of View – In almost a struc­tured “con­tention” you need to state what you are try­ing to prove or dis­agree with, your best bet would be to include it in the first paragraph.

4) Decide On Your Strongest Points – Sit down and think of your strongest points that you can use to per­suade the reader that your con­tent is bet­ter than the guy on the next domain.

5) Col­lect Sup­port for your Points – What good is a point with­out evi­dence? It would turn in to fic­tion, like we dis­cussed before. So look up some reli­able sources that agree your opin­ion, this will always add cred­i­bil­ity in your reader’s eyes.

6) Use log­i­cally struc­tured argu­ments and coher­ent para­graphs – There’s only one thing worse than a per­son writ­ing about some­thing they have no clue about, and that is read­ing con­tent that has no struc­ture what so-ever. Many good blog­gers, with untold knowl­edge quit the game quickly because they can’t bring for­ward their point.

7) Proof-Read – ‘Enuff Said. Go back to your arti­cle re-read it. Then go out­side and stretch for a bit, come back and re-read it again before you even think about pub­lish­ing it to the rest of the world! Make sure that after proof-reading you’ve brought across your point.

That’s it! Hope you can use these guide­lines the next time you write con­tent. I can almost guar­an­tee that your read­ers will be more sat­is­fied and enjoy read­ing your con­tent ever more.

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