Content is King! 5 Effective Ways to Improve Your Writing Skills

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing" - is a well said phrase and it deems fit in the aura, where quality content has become one of the must have elements of businesses and websites. Significantly, content plays a vital role in the growth of a business or website. A piece of content should be rich enough to deliver the right message to the readers. A good content has the capability of convincing and turning the readers into prospect customers. If it is a product based website, it should have well-written packets of information about its product or services . If you're a content writer, you, while writing for a website, should try to use such style of writing, which is appropriate for that domain of business. And, as a content writer, you should always remember that for a website the right content is the only KING! 

The content, whether for a website or for a blog, or for an article should always be relevant. Relevant just according to the domain or the business of that website. As a content writer, before penning down a write up, you should try getting into the shoes of that business. For example, if it is a website for kids, you need not write a literature like content, a simple but rich in grammar text will also do. And if it is a corporate website, while writing, you should use technical terms related to that industry. Apart from web writing and literature writing, nowadays, there are many other genres of writing, such as: SEO, SMO (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), Meta Descriptions, etc. All these new classes of writing are done for one basic reason - to attract the user generated traffic to a website. Even the web content writing has also taken a new name, SEO Friendly Web-content Writing. The contents are also being used for marketing and promotions.

Content writing as a career sees a great scope, and in coming days, there will countless opportunities for web and SEO-SMO content writers. If you are willing to pursue it as a career, following are five most effective ways to improve your writing skills -

Plan - As an emerging content writer, you should plan your content well, before starting. You should know what exactly you are writing for . A deep research should be done to master the topic or the area of the content.

Who - Before you start, give some effort to know your audience. It will help them connect to them with your words, easily. It will also become quite easier for you to deliver your message.

Choosing the Appropriate Title - The title of your content or article should be very attractive. If the title is not logically inviting, most people will skip reading it. A coherent title of your article is the first thing that will give a glimpse to the audience about the whole article, and if it is not chosen the right way, you may miss out a great number of your audience.

Introduction and Conclusion - Every write-up, whether a news article or story, should have an interesting introduction. A number of amateur writers avoid giving an introduction, and start elaborating what the title says. To write effective contents, you need to create an environment (or let us call it, a base) of your writing so that users do not get confused. 

Conclusion is also one of the most important parts of a write-up. A conclusion is as necessary as the introduction of your content. Your article must have a conclusion; without it, it will be incomplete and pointless. Remember, every novel, movie, and even a cartoon film has an ending, whether happy or sad.

Quotations - Adding quotations and phrases to your content will increase its credibility. It will also look attractive and reflect the level of your knowledge, and help you stay closer to your readers.

Before writing on a particular topic or subject, it is advisable that you should learn as much as you can about it, so that you can write flawlessly in flow.

(Article written by me for Yahoo Voice. Link to the original article - http://voices.yahoo.com/content-king-5-effective-ways-improve-writing-12366755.html?cat=48)