Web Promotion When You’re Not a Writer
How to go about promoting a website or webpage seems fairly straight foward. Getting backlinks is of course critical if you want to show up in searches and one of the best ways to achieve that is to write great, unique content, and to promote that content by writing articles, blogs, and other related webpages.
I’m capable of constructing reasonable sentences and can most often put my thoughts in logical order and express them in written form. I’ve certainly written several hundred blogs and hundreds of articles. However, I don’t consider myself a writer. For this reason, I lack some of the necessary skills and at times, this is most evident in my ability to not only write well but to write quickly and in great volume. Hiring someone to write for me is out of the question right now.
As someone who would like to earn a living on line I guess it’s time to buckle down and focus a bit more on my writing skills in general. Over time, I’ve bookmarked a number of related articles which I probably need to actually review more thoroughly now that I accept this as a much needed goal. This all became evident to me as I began following Vbright on Tagfoot and Squidtop as she discussed her writing job. When I realized that a “writer” could produce 20 or more articles a day on a topic that was unfamiliar, I realized how far off the mark I was. I doubt that 20 articles a day is necessary for marketing purposes, but it’s a kick in the pants nonetheless to understand what some people are capable of doing.
I think I’ll start with some of the articles I have bookmarked on Tagfoot starting with the resources listed in this http://www.dumblittleman.com/2008/08/21-must-read-tips-to-write-better-web.html article.
I don’t aspire to be a professional writer, but the importance of writing is very evident. I guess that fact that web promotion is often about writing well and in volume has to be acknowledged and I need to find a way to do that in a more effective and efficient manner.
If anyone has other recommended online resources let me know!
Tags: web promotion, writing
October 25th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I sort of know what you are talking about, except I did fancy myself a writer when I was a teenager. I would type for hours on an old-fashioned typewriter. I must have had reams of fiction all typed out, and I even let friends and family read the stories to much acclaim (at least in my mind), but I never did get published. I also have no idea where all that material went to.
Now, after like 20 years of not typing like that, I’m trying to get back into it, and I’ve also book marked a bunch of articles I need to read on becoming a better writer that I need to go through.
So, even though I think I might have been able to write large amounts of good content back in my younger years, I feel like I’m starting over, and I’m a little jealous of people like V and EelKat who make writing look so easy!