The Significance Of Posting Good Content

December 28, 2009 by Chris  
Filed under Writing skills



Scripting text is easy, but not all can master it. A good content is as significant as the grammar, spelling, and vocabulary of your blog post. Well, before I reveal the importance of the content and how it affects your blog, let’s define ‘good’ in blogging.

So, what is a ‘good content’?

Content can be termed as ‘good’ when it intends to share the message clearly and unambiguously to the readers. It is drafted with focus on tremendous quality. However, good content is not only text. It comprises of many other elements like videos, pictures, statistics, or any other techniques that helps the reader to comprehend the message quite easily and pleasingly. Ideally, it should include a combination of any or all of these elements.

what is good content

If your content is really good and liked by the readers, it gains traffics quickly. Readers tweet or digg it because they find the content to be quite helpful, humorous, perceptive, or sometimes weird. They start valuing your blog and revisit to check your next post.

SEO can definitely help your post to be read by visitors, but hooking and pleasing them depends entirely on the quality of your post.

Let me reveal a secret that can help you to construct a really ‘good content.’ Write about something that you intent to learn. Your curiosity helps you to collect the best pieces of information, the assortment of which makes a good content. And remember, if you are curious about something, be sure that there would be many readers craving for similar information.

Okay. The definition of a ‘good content’ is quite comprehensible now. Let’s move on and learn its significance.

The importance of good content

Traffic is definitely an indispensable reason to write a good content for your blog. However, below are the four reasons why you should write amazing content when you start a blog.

  1. To promote the best. Do not hesitate to reveal the best you have in your first post. Let people know you have what it takes to be the most excellent blogger.
  2. In future, you will write great stuff. If you start with a great article, it is more likely that you will post an article that’s better than the previous one because gradually, you keep improving.
  3. Readers can differentiate between good and bad. First impression is truly the last impression when it comes to blogging. Readers visit your blog because they are searching for some good and genuine content. If they don’t like it the first time, they will never return. Why take such a chance?
  4. Definition of your blog and its magnitude of excellence. The first article will help readers comprehend whether or not you know about the topic. You must conduct an extensive research and generate a post that is quite satisfying and precise. People should immediately assume that you know much more than them. If this happens, they will definitely visit your blog again, but they will also inform their friends about it. This is the power of good content.

It’s quite simple to understand the significance of a ‘good content’, but generating one is not.

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Fabricating a good content

Although posting frequently is good way to attract readers, posting excellent quality articles is a much better way to magnetize huge mass. It requires discipline, hard work, and time to generate the best post. Here are four points that can help you surge the quality level to the top.

  1. Your post should be extremely helpful. This means proving the readers more than what they are looking for. However, there is a difference between proving more and providing junk.
  2. It must be complemented with an attractive headline. Headlines must compel the readers to read the content. An excellent article is useless and repels visitors if it has an uninteresting and common headline. To generate a good headline you can use a question, customized quotation, weird assumption, etc. However, it important to ensure that it relates with the articles.
  3. Be precise or provide a summary of the article that helps the reader to comprehend the contents of the post. Exploring sentence by sentence just to know what the article is about, infuriates the reader.
  4. The content should be simple and concise. Here, I am not referring to the style of writing which is unique. The language should be simple and understandable by most of the readers. Also the message should not be prolonged. Come straight to the point and keep it short.

Although all the points mentioned above are important and cannot be neglected, the most significant is the title. If the title isn’t attractive, the visitor won’t even click on it and automatically, the other three points will be useless. So, it’s essential to generate a title that’s creative and entices maximum number of visitors to click on it.

There are two elements to generate a good headline. First, do not create a headline before finishing the article and second, put some efforts to brainstorm a brilliant title.

Clarity is another significant element that your content is responsible to provide the readers. Firstly, it should be easily understood by the readers. Secondly, tell them in advance about the content of your article. For instance, the content of this article is clearly mentioned in the first paragraph.

Wrapping up

By now you must have understood the definition, importance, and production of a good content. Start applying these things in your very next post and focus on the quality of the content.



Comments

11 Responses to “The Significance Of Posting Good Content”

  1. Rian on December 28th, 2009 6:19 am

    Even if my grammar is not that good (IMHO), I always make it a point to let the visitor find whatever he is looking for.
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    Chris Reply:

    That’s great Rian! Keeping it concise and precise is the key.

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  2. Darni on December 28th, 2009 7:06 am

    Here is my defination of good content: People like it. Good content is extremely important because it is the only thing that we can keep our readers.However,witing good content is not as easy as it seems. We can not just write good content after we read some guides. It need practice, we need write and write and write to be perfect.
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    Chris Reply:

    Very true Darni. It needs enormous practice to master the ability of writing good and useful content. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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  3. Mitch on December 28th, 2009 11:22 am

    I like to think that good content means you’re saying something different than the norm, in a relatively easy way for people to understand it. You can write 200 words and have it become good content, and you can write 1,000 words and have it be good content.

    I hadn’t thought about images or video as good content, however. Images that don’t match up with the content seem to distract people, and videos, while nice, takes up a lot of time people want to use doing other things, so it shouldn’t be overly used.

    Good stuff; thanks.
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    Chris Reply:

    Hi Mitch. Thanks for your suggestions. I completely agree with you. Quantity, in any case, cannot ever match quality.

    And yes, images or video that doesn’t match the content can deplete the quality. However, good images can speak a lot about the topic and makes the content more powerful. Appropriately chosen images will attract maximum readers and help them to comprehend the essence of content.

    Vidoes are not needed in every post. However, one shouldn’t hesitate to post it, if it adds value to the content. Some posts need a demonstration, which can best be provided by videos. Again, i agree with you that it takes a lot of time.

    Thanks again for sharing your valuable thoughts.

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  4. Blogging Tips on December 28th, 2009 6:38 pm

    Yes if the content is good automatically we will great visitors
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    Chris Reply:

    Definitely. People always seek good content.

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  5. Tim Moon on December 28th, 2009 9:47 pm

    Good tips. Content is definitely important and I like that you stress really high quality articles over mere volume of work.
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    Chris Reply:

    Thanks for the observation Tim. Glad to hear you like my blogs.

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  6. Lee Ka Hoong on January 3rd, 2010 11:37 pm

    I strongly agree that having good content is very important, but writing and grammar is important too. Sometimes we have good point and content in our mind, but due to don’t have good writing and English, then we can’t produce perfect article.

    That’s something I need to improve as English is not my mother language.

    Happy New Year Chris!

    Cheers,
    Lee
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