Comments on: Writing Top-Quality Content That People Love

By: content writing tips

content writing tips — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:34:57 +0000

I appreciate this quality post that demonstrates the attributes of sound content strategy.
Not to change topics, but this is how to create an opportunity
to build relationships with your readers. While Google
loves new content, real people thrive on it too. Thank you for
being an example of a blog owner that writes for
their followers and not just for the search engines.

By: Andrew Brooke

Andrew Brooke — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:48:50 +0000

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Clear, practical advice. My favourite line is:
“If you don’t let people know about your business and how it can help them to solve their problems, they will undoubtedly find someone else who can help them to solve their problems.”

Amen to that…
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By: Stephen Tamlin

Stephen Tamlin — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:04:27 +0000

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Yeah I guess trial and error is important, have to find your own rhythm it seems. I have an idea behind some content to do with the current situation I find myself at the start of my career. Although I think there’s a learning curve in portraying that effectively. Just have to go for it and see what works and what doesn’t. Thanks for the advice very helpful.
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By: Gen

Gen — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:04:58 +0000

This is very true Carolyn. Sometimes I do believe that there is room for a rant or two on your blog as it is your personal voice and that allows others to know you, but if you are using your blog to help others in some way than most of your content should be based on well delivering good valuable content. Great post by the way.

By: Lynn Brown

Lynn Brown — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:33:39 +0000

I think ‘focus’ is key when it comes to the content you need for your business. When you know what your audience wants, needs and will respond to, focus in and give them what they want.

You make some good points Carolyn on how content can bring viability to you and your business. So be passionate about the information you are sharing and you will see tremendous results.

By: Len Diamond

Len Diamond — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 20:46:30 +0000

If reducing what writers do to “content” was a conscious strategy to demean writers and reduce the prices for their work, it has worked wonderfully. More likely, it just happened, but has been furthered by some writers themselves accepting the word. Content is King? Content is Kommodity.
Speaking for myself, I don’t write content; I’ll write advertising copy, or a business profile, or an article on some topic, or an opinion, or a white paper, or a manual, or whatever the occasion or client calls for. “Content” is what people try to buy for a penny a word on the onlline job exchanges, and nobody should have to work for that.
I’ll concede it’s probably too late to reverse the situation, but we don’t have to help it along.

By: Carolyn Cohn

Carolyn Cohn — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:47:33 +0000

Hi Stephen:

Thank you for your comment.

First of all, responses that are controversial (or seemingly negative) often have a great deal of value (of course, only if they are presented constructively) because they can generate a lot of valuable discussions among several people and all sorts of valuable information can stem from that. At times, you will find that you learn more from negative (or controversial) responses than you do from negative ones.

Regarding the determination of what constitutes high-quality content, in my opinion, the language itself must be error free (grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc), the concepts that are being discussed should be exciting and compelling (or, at the very least, interesting), and the words that are used to express the ideas should entice the reader enough to want to not only read the entire post but to want to read subsequent posts as well and to share your content with others. As discussions occur, you will start to understand what your readers want to read about. Even though there is tremendous competition when it comes to blogs on every possible topic under the sun, it is your job to come up with new and innovative ways of expressing what you want to say.

By: Stephen Tamlin

Stephen Tamlin — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:45:44 +0000

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Discussion:Writing Top-Quality Content That People Love

I’m about to start a job as a trainee social media manager. I’ve been trying to get up to date on the newest techniques and best practises on how to become effective in this industry. It’s clear that everyone agrees content is king! I’d agree with you that you want to control any response you get from your content and therefore trying to avoid controversy is a good idea however, what is good quality content. I mean how can you be original and engaging when there seems to be a blog or a group for pretty much everything.
Posted by Stephen Tamlin