How to Earn More From Your Online Articles, Blogs

Online Writing is basically called blogging. You can blog on your own site, or on a free blogging platform like Read Cash.

First of all, you need to be clear on what is your purpose for blogging. Do you want to blog for money? Do you want to blog for building readers for your articles? Do you want to blog for promoting your products/services? Do you want to blog for content marketing? Once you know your purpose, you can act accordingly. By the way, whatever your purpose of blogging might be, you need traffic on your blog. Whether you want to blog for money, for building readers, for promoting products and services, or for content marketing, you need traffic. Without traffic you cannot earn from ads, cannot earn from product sales, cannot build readers, cannot market products. Traffic is the blood and bones of your blog. The primary purpose of promoting your blog is to get traffic. You will have more traffic if you have more content (provided they rank well and you do promotion), however, your blog still needs traffic even when you have just one post. Well, when you have one article, your blog will look empty, but you can tell your readers that the website is under construction. In the meantime, you can also explain to the readers what you are going to publish in the future.

How to Earn More From Your Online Articles, or Blogs

Whether you publish articles on sites like Read Cash or maintain your own blog, you need to understand three things to earn more from your online articles and blogs

How to Attract Readers to Your Articles

How to Engage Your Readers

Writing For Humans Vs. Writing For Search Engines

How to Attract Readers to Your Articles

You will be able to pull an audience if you have a great title and introduction, however, you can make your visitors stay on the site only when your content body is great and it provides everything the visitor is looking for. IF the content body is not good, there is no way we can retain the visitors.

Readable content! That's correct, your blog should have readable content. No matter where your traffic comes from, people will stay on your site as long as your site offers something to read. If the content is not worthy of reading, people will not stay on your site. You can write on any topic but the content must be useful and interesting.

How to Engage Your Readers

In order to engage your readers, you need to first retain your visitors. You can retain your visitors only when you have engaging content. Therefore, retaining visitors and engaging readers both are interconnected. You need useful and interesting content, you need clean design, use a white background, limit the use of ads, etc.

A lot of websites I visit publish irrelevant content, a lot of blog posts are too lengthy because they provide unnecessary details on the topics. Visitors can tolerate your long content only when it provides relevant information. Becoming successful with blogging means having a lot of readers on your blog.

In order to become a successful blogger, you need to write for an 8th grader. Writing for eighth-graders means writing is so easy to comprehend that even eighth-graders easily understand your writing. Apart from the easy-to-understand writing style, you also need to remember a couple of things like formatting, adding subtitles, etc.

Writing For Humans Vs. Writing For Search Engines

Search engine algorithms are designed in a way that high-ranking posts will be also be liked by common people. There are exceptions, but in most cases, the content that is ranked high is useful, interesting, original, informative, and well-written, which will also be liked by the readers. Therefore, you should not be confused between search engine-favored content and readers' favorite content. If search engines like your content, readers will also like those content. The most important thing is to produce readable content, and content that provides information as well. Readers' choices will always be search engine choices.

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