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Writing content for the internet is different in many ways from writing content for print. The attention span of most readers is lower online, you only have between 5 to 10 seconds to grab their attention.
The first 10 seconds are extremely crucial and they play a significant role when it comes to engagement, content conversion and delivering value.
Reading from a computer is 25% slower, which is why readers prefer skimming instead of reading word by word.
There are several content writing guidelines that if used, can help web content writers create a hook, and can encourage people to stay on their websites for a lot longer.
According to Neil Patel, the biggest challenge that copywriters face, is creating content that is friendly for both search engines and readers.
Other challenges include maintaining quality, idea generation, and using the right tools and resources.
These web content writing guidelines and tips will help you overcome these (and many other) challenges.
These guidelines have been divided into 5 categories:
- Planning
- Writing
- Formatting
- Editing and Proofreading
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Idea Generation
Everything and anything that's creative starts with an idea, same is true for content writing.
It all starts with a simple idea.
Being a writer, you should always be in research mode, and as soon as you find something interesting, take notes, save URLs and sources immediately. You can use Evernote or Google Keep to take notes if you are a modern-day writer, but a diary and pen are good options too.
You must have a decent supply of ideas for your upcoming blog post, video or podcast. The moment you run out of ideas, frustration will take control of your brain, making things much more difficult.
If you run out of ideas, you should visit this list by Nicole Miller. She's created a comprehensive catalog of 38 tools for generating new ideas.
Idea generation for your article is not as important as taking notes. You'll get tons of ideas every single day when you read a newspaper, listen to the radio, watch TV, talk to someone on the phone, or use the internet, but the real issue will be when your mind goes blank while you're at your desk crafting your next project.
So start taking notes.
Competitor Spying
Spying on your competitors can provide you with some useful insights into their content creation and marketing strategies. At the same time, you'll be able to screen your ideas – like those generated in the previous step.
The end result is that you'll know what's working for your competitors and how to model their strategies for yourself, and even how to make them work better.
Here's a brief overview of how to spy on your competitors to see what type of content they're generating and how they are ranking for it.
- Ahrefs, Searchmetrics and iSpionage are useful to see competitor's rankings.
- Use Alexa, Similar Web and Quantcast to see how much traffic your competitors are receiving.
- Use Tag Inspector to get a complete list of tags.
These three steps will provide you with some good insights into what is working best for your rivals, and how to craft your content based on the results.
Newsjacking can be a double-edged sword. I will tell you why in a moment, but first, what it is?
Newsjacking refers to using breaking news to craft your content, so that it gets additional hype. Adding your ideas to a current news story can put your brand–or you–in front of thousands more people, and your content might even go viral.
According to Ginny Soskey, newsjacking is not always a piece of cake.
It can be a double-edged sword for two reasons:
- Done well, you can gain media attention, traffic, content conversion and immediate business growth, and since the latest news will provide you with tons of ideas for content generation, you will never run out of ideas for your upcoming content.
- The problem with Newsjacking is that the impact of breaking news is not usually long-lasting, and so your effort will be effective only for the duration of the news cycle.
The real art here is how to use it smartly. The New Rules of Marketing & PR by David Meerman Scott is the best guiding source available for those who are interested in creating content by hijacking news stories.
Here is a great example of Newsjacking. The ad refers to the news of horsemeat inclusion in beef products in Europe. Iris took the story and created this ad – Beef. With a lot of horses hidden in it.
This actually worked well for Mini John Cooper Works Roadster.
Quora is one of the best friends of content writers and bloggers, especially those who are always short on ideas. Use their search bar to find suitable questions for your niche.
Every single question, whether answered or unanswered, can be used to generate a new article for a blog.
Yahoo Answers is a similar source which can be used for the same purpose.
If you ever want to see what's trending in your industry, and what you should write about, visit Reddit. Look for posts that are the most active and that are getting lots of upvotes and comments. All these trending posts are topics that you can write about.
Every piece of content that you plan to write must have definitive objectives. Content written without objectives is useless for your website.
Before you start writing content, ask yourself following questions:
- What do you want to achieve from it?
- What do you expect your readers to do after reading it?
- What outcomes are you expecting?
- Will it help promote something?
- Will it be informational content?
- What is the purpose of the content?
These questions will help you define the objectives for the content you are creating.
Know Your Audience
Everyone writes for an audience, but only a few really understand their audience.
Ask yourself the following questions and write your answers on a piece of paper or in separate word document:
- What problem will it solve?
- How much do they already know?
- Who are the readers?
- Demographics
- Psychographics
- Why do readers need your material to solve their problem?
- Trust factor
According to Geoff Hart,
"Almost any attempt to understand the audience's needs, even relatively simplistic attempts, will result in better documentation; more sophisticated approaches will produce correspondingly better results."
Crafting Topics
You know your audience and you've collected some good data about them, which is great. So you now have to create a topic for your blog based on this information.
As a starting point, use Hubspot's blog topic generator to generate topics to write about based on the primary keyword(s).
It provides you with multiple helpful topics.
This tool is good for providing useful ideas for your article.
Editorial Calendar
Hubspot's blog topic generator gives you 5 topics that you can tweak and then save in your editorial calendar for later use. It's not necessary to create an editorial calendar, but doing so will provide you with a good supply of content ideas.
Instead of just choosing or creating one topic for a single article or blog post after doing all the hard work, why not create multiple topics?
An editorial calendar keeps a record of when new content has to be published and what topics to cover. What you should technically do is tweak all five blog topics from Hubspot and then put them up in your editorial calendar.
Follow this guide on creating an editorial calendar.
Brian Dean says "There is no such thing as SEO without keywords".
Your blog topic is not the same as the keywords you use.
When you sit down to write your content, you need to do keyword research so that you have a list of relevant keywords (or words) that your audience will use to find your content.
Here is a list of some free and paid keyword research tools.
This keyword research guide by Brian is probably the best in town, and it shows you exactly how to make most of these keyword research tools.
The title is the first thing that a potential reader will look at and decide – should I read it?
Being a content writer, your job is to create a title that acts as a magnet for readers.
There are certain characteristics of a title that make it effective:
- It must be catchy.
- It must be short and smart.
- It should convey the message.
- It must not be ambiguous.
Here is a good example of a title that's catchy, short and smart, conveys the message and is not ambiguous.
Now look at the title below.
It has quite a few problems.
First, OS is an abbreviation, and most readers won't know what it means.
Using abbreviations in titles is a really bad idea.
Second, the title is ambiguous. As a reader, you could easily get confused about whether the writer is talking about a laptop, an android phone or any other device.
The infographic below by Pauline Cabrera is one of my favorites. All you have to do is fill in the blank to get a cool title idea.
You can make your title even more effective by using power words.
Use Power Words
Power words let you connect with your readers on an emotional level. These are more than simple words because they have the potential to create an emotional hook.
Using power words in the title, headings and sub-headings help evoke reader's feelings.
Power words vary from industry to industry and the trick is to use the right power words for the right situation, and also for the target audience.
For example, silly happens to be a power word. You can write I have a silly friend or I have a silly idea or use it in several other ways. It all comes down to how you use it.
Some of the common power words are:
Free, abuse, crave, dumb, guts, smash, discover, unleash, fool…
The Muse has done a good job of compiling and categorizing 185 power words.
Need more power words, here is a list of 317 power words.
First Sentence
"The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead. And if the second sentence doesn't induce him to continue to the third sentence, it's equally dead. Of such a progression of sentences, each tugging the reader forward."
Eugene Schwartz, sometimes spends up to a week writing the first few words of a sales letter.
The best first sentence is one that is connected to the title. It shouldn't delude. The first sentence must explain, ask, quote or claim what has already been said in the title (or the heading, if there is one).
Darren Rowse has written 10 tips for opening your next blog post. If all these tips are categorized, we can conclude that there are actually four types of opening sentences.
Explain: They expand the title and tell readers more about it by adding statistics, they remind the reader of one of their problems, or they express the benefits of continued reading, and so on.
Example: This is a detailed guide on how to choose and buy a DSLR camera. (By Nasim Mansurov)
Ask: Then there are opening sentences that start from a question. They ask readers a direct question to develop the hook.
Example: Want to grab your reader's attention with the first line of your next blog post? (10 Ways to Hook Blog Readers with Your Opening Line)
Quote: These are the opening sentences that use quotations. Just like I have quoted William Zinsser to start the tip number 13.
Claim: Opening sentences that make a bold claim.
The following infographic by Kibin adds a humorous anecdote and give examples of the type of opening sentences that work.
Crafting a Lead
A lead refers to the introductory part of the content. In journalism, the lead is the first paragraph. For web content, the first 100 words constitute the lead.
The art of crafting a lead is simple- create hype, make it appealing and involve the readers.
There are different types of leads such as summary, analysis, blind, scene-setter and narrative.
One of the best ways to craft an effective lead is to write it in the narrative. This gives the reader a good idea of what the article is about. It's also useful to put the best sentences at the start of the article to establish the hook.
The introduction is not the same as lead. The introduction is much longer and its purpose is to share the content of the piece with the readers. It introduces the readers to what's coming next, and tells them what to expect.
There are two rules for writing an introduction that develops the hook and keep readers engaged.
First, the best way to write a killer introduction for your article is to write it last.
Second, do not disclose the main subject right away, this is critical for user engagement.
The video below describes this point well.
Use Headings
Headings do two useful things:
- They make content easy to read. Readers know what they are reading about, and if readers want to skip a certain portion, they can do so by referring to headings. Nobody likes big blocks of text without headings or subheadings.
- Headings are important for on-page SEO and they give your content a nice boost in terms of search engine ranking.
On average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy.
—David Ogilvy
Headings come in handy when readers are in a mood to skim.
Headings should be:
- Short
- Self-explanatory
- Consistent
Here is a great tool to analyze headlines.
This headline analyzer gives the following details about your headline:
- Score
- Word balance
- Headline type
- Length analysis
- Keywords used
- Search engine preview
- Email subject preview
- Sentiments
- And much more
Enter heading, click on "Analyze Now", and you'll get all the details.
The image below has some of the most popular words/phrases that can be used in a headline.
Emotional Marketing Value Headline Analyzer is another good tool that measures the emotional marketing value of a headline.
Subheadings are equally important for content writing. Subheadings – along with headings – are used to organize content, making it easy-to-read and more search engine-friendly.
Subheadings should:
- Look like subheadings and therefore must be smaller than headings (visually and in word count)
- Decrease in size as you move down the article (subheading of a subheading and so on)
Front-Load Content
Front-loading refers to starting your article from the conclusion. If you put the conclusion at the start of the article, it will give your readers a quick insight into the content.
Front-loading content is the type of content writing that journalists use. You don't have to use this technique all the time, and there are certain articles where you cannot put conclusion first, such as if you are comparing two different products.
Newspaper articles are the best example of front-loaded content. They almost always put the conclusion first.
When using this technique for writing content, start the article by clearly stating what and why. What is the content about and why readers should read it.
Write Nothing but the Truth
Write what's true. Do your research, find quality information that's reliable, and link to your sources.
Link to experts and cite others in your writing, as this is how your readers will develop trust.
Provide Answers
Providing answers to your readers will make your content much better, and it's one of the most critical ingredients of good content writing, as pointed by Zach Bulygo in his blog post The Nine Ingredients That Make Great Content.
Readers look for answers to their questions when they're reading your content. Provide them with answers or they will leave.
This is a good reason why front-loading content does well; readers find what they are looking for right away. Although they may leave fairly quickly, they won't be leaving your website forever. They'll remember you, your content and your brand.
Speak the Reader's Language
Write content in the language that your readers use. While trying to understand your target audience, you need to see what language they use, what type of questions they ask, what words and phrases they use regularly.
Try copying your reader's language because that's how you'll connect.
Let's say you have a doctorate degree, and you put an academic paper on your weight loss blog, with your main audience being overweight teens. Obviously, your readers won't be able to understand the statistical analysis, diagrams and academic discussion, and it won't be of much interest for them.
According to Sarita Harbour, writers need to mimic the language of their readers. It's important to make them feel at home, and to make them realize that you understand their concerns by using same phrases, words and sentences that they use.
It's always a good idea not to use industry-centric language in your content, but rather to use reader-centric language.
Michael at Daily Writing Tips has echoed this point and has done well in differentiating other English speaking countries from the United States. Accent, writing format and spelling do not remain the same. For instance color is used in US, while it's spelled colour in UK and other English speaking regions such as Canada.
Using colour for US audience and color for UK audience might not work well.
There are certain ways to know what type of language your readers use.
- Visit forums where your target audience hangs out and see what type of questions they post, how they write and what type of phrases they use.
- Social media has made your life easier. Facebook and Twitter alone can provide you with some rich data on written language being used by your audience.
- Read comments on your own blog and read comments posted at your competitor's blogs.
Use Active Voice
Using passive voice in web content writing – or potentially in any type of business writing – is considered a sin. Using active voice makes content more direct, concise, confident, effective and user-friendly.
Writers and copywriters know and agree that active voice is the best way to double the effectiveness of the content.
Here is a quick example.
We can help you grow your business versus let us help you grow your business.
We can help you grow your business is the passive voice and it seems as if you are talking about your own business. The focus is on we can help.
While let us help you grow your business changes the attention to grow your business and it clearly shows it's about growing your business.
This is what the active voice can do to your copy.
Your Voice
We talked about speaking your reader's language and now it's time to add your own voice to the content.
Just as they say it is crucial to add your own voice to curated content, similarly it is vital to add your own voice to whatever you are writing. The voice here refers to the writer's own personality.
Not only should you add your own voice to the content, but you should mix it up with your brand's voice, according to Natasha Watts.
Adding your own voice to content makes it yours and makes it personal, and it works best for user-engagement. If readers like your style, they'll connect with you.
So we have three types of voices that content must have:
- Your reader's language (aka the reader's voice)
- Your own voice
- Your brand's voice
There is a fine line between the three types, and you should try to utilize them all.
Wishpond blog is a good example. Every blog post has a featured image, and all the featured images follow the same pattern. They put the title of the blog post in the featured image and this is how they have maintained their brand's voice.
Trending Topics
Writing content based on trending topics is a great way to attract new readers. Unfortunately, most content writers don't focus on trending topics because they are already being covered in every newspaper and magazine, as well as by all the leading blogs.
Instead of just sharing a story, you have to make it completely yours. Add your point of view. Pratik Dholakiya has a decent strategy for creating content around trending topics by adding a hook.
There are other strategies for covering trending topics:
- Critically analyze the trending topic
- Establish a link between a trending story and your industry, niche or business
- Add your personal thoughts to it
Commenting on a trending story, discussing its pros and cons, stating its future impact and talking about its impact at micro and macro levels is not going to help as this is what 95 percent of other writers do. You have to come up with something different, a unique and never-published-before version of the trending topic.
Unique Content
This video by Rand Fishkin is one of the best videos that I've seen on the importance of unique content and why it matters.
Your content doesn't just have to be unique; it must also provide unique value to the reader.
So what happens when you write unique content, both in terms of percentage and value? Well, there are some benefits that your website will eventually enjoy, such as increased readership, increased credibility, and proving yourself as an authority in your niche.
There are certain rules to deliver unique value in your content, and they should be:
- Relevant to your readers' queries
- Easy-to-read
- Easy-to-navigate
- Not found elsewhere
Next time you're about to write content, put more emphasis on unique value than unique words.
Highlight Benefits
The secret to writing compelling content that converts is to focus on the benefits instead of features.
An unintentional mistake that many writers make when they're creating benefits, is that they create fake benefits. Brian Clark recommends focusing on true benefits which are derived from product features. This is how true value is passed on to the readers, and thus the buyers.
A general rule is to derive benefits from product features, and then further support those benefits with the features.
Here is how to do it:
- Find the features of the product and write them down.
- Extract the benefit from each of the feature while keeping your target audience in mind.
- Prepare a list of the benefits.
- Add these benefits into content.
- Use the features to support your benefits.
Focus on Positives
This is one of the tips that I read recently at Heriot Watt University in their guide for web content writing for university websites.
Naturally, most content writers focus on positive aspects of the product they are writing about. For instance, instead of writing "our product is not for singles" they write "our product is best for parents".
If you don't do this now, you should definitely start.
The idea is simple, instead of highlighting the negative aspects, shape them to highlight the positive ones. Instead of showing the dark side to readers, show them the bright side.
Every product has negative aspects. Your job as a content writer is to push these flaws to the background, but don't hide them.
In the example above, when we say our product is best for parents, it doesn't deny the fact that it is not for singles. Of course singles can use it but it is not actually for them. You have conveyed the message by pushing its negative aspect to background.
Stay on Topic
Readers on the internet need what they are looking for minus all the fluff. Adding off-topic material will never please your readers.
As soon as you move slightly off-topic, you lose the reader's interest and make them frustrated.
There are different techniques that can be used to stay on topic throughout your article.
- Use a detailed outline. This outline has to be created prior to writing content. Good writers use paragraph level outline. Main ideas (points) to be discussed in each paragraph should be mentioned in the outline.
- Peer review is a decent technique where you ask a peer to quickly scan the final draft to see if everything is related to the topic.
- A subject matter expert can give you even better insights.
The following video has a step-by-step technique for staying on topic.
Consistency in Style
Consistency in style makes the content uniform.
Look at the following news items from three different sources, and notice the difference in style.
Same story. Different styles.
Being an online content writer, you must develop your own unique style, or else you and your content will be lost.
A style guide can help you maintain consistency with your writing style. It's a guide for writing content for specific entity such as a business. You can choose from free online writing style guides such as the Wikipedia guide, the Economist style guide or the Telegraph style book. These free guides provide you with instant access to a writing style guide.
But this alone will not make you stand out from the crowd. These free style guides are used by hundreds already. A better idea, therefore, is to create a writing style guide for you own blog, website or for business.
Creating a content style guide for your personal use needs a bit of hard work initially, but it will pay off in the long-run.
Just imagine – you have a business blog that you have been personally writing for many years, and now you need to outsource blog posts or you need a content writing agency to write and publish on your blog, but you want them to follow the same writing style.
Having a writing style guide will make this transition much more smooth and effective.
The tone you use is different from the voice that has been already discussed. The tone represents the attitude of the writer, while the voice represents the personality of the writer.
The voice is not changeable – since you cannot alter your personality – but you can change your attitude.
This means you'll have same voice whether you write formally or informally, but your tone will be different, and your tone is what makes your content formal or informal.
The tone is the attitude of the writer towards the subject.
Look at the following examples.
Tone is created by:
- Diction
- Syntax
- Grammar
- Details
- Facts
Amanda Patterson has a massive list of 155 ways to describe tone. This is a list worth reading.
The mood and the tone in writing are often seen as interchangeably, however they are not the same.
The mood is the general atmosphere created by content. It is how readers feel. The mood, therefore, is more related to the reader.
If you feel peaceful after reading a Charles Dickens novel, that's the mood that the writer has created.
This mood is also created by the content writer. Ask yourself, what you want readers to feel after reading your article? Do you want them to feel happy, excited, sentimental, romantic, optimistic or confident?
The mood is created by:
- Voice
- Tone
- Setting (what theme the writer has created)
- Diction
Look at the two trailers of the movie Frozen and notice how these two trailers of the same movie offer two opposing moods.
This is the original one.
Now look at this.
The same goes for written content. Making your readers feel sad or happy is all in your hands.
Here is a list of numerous mood (and tone) words to help you create the type of feelings that can stir your readers.
Align Content to Your Business
You don't necessarily always write for your own business. Instead you may have to write for other businesses.
To suit another business, you will have to write content that aligns to their business model and goals.
You must understand the business, its goals and its content marketing strategy. That's how you will be able to align your articles properly.
Iceberg Theory
Iceberg writing theory is an interesting writing style used by Ernest Hemingway. There are several interpretations of this theory but the crux is "less is more". Like you only see a small portion of an iceberg, with much of it hidden beneath the surface, your writing style should provide a more minimalistic overview, with a lot of unnecessary content remaining unwritten.
The image above shows one approach to the Iceberg Theory. It puts a CTA right in the introduction of the article and then move on to details in subsequent paragraphs. So even if a reader leaves, he leaves with your message because it's right at the start of the article.
Here is a detailed approach with the steps to follow.
You have to distribute your content into layers.
- First layer must have the bait or you can simply write a brief overview of what this article is about.
- Second layer must have more details about what has been presented or said in the first layer.
- Third layer must share related information or it should have a CTA (external links).
Type of Content
Being a writer, you can create several types of content. The infographic below by Digital Marketer provides you with an unlimited supply of content ideas.
There are certain things that are obvious, but everything else has to be explained.
A simple rule is to put yourself in your reader's shoes and think from their perspective.
Statements like 'we grow your business' doesn't mean anything in reality unless you explain it. There are several ways to grow a business. What type of growth you are talking about? What type of businesses is it for, and how will the growth be achieved?
Realistically, you will have to explain almost everything including words, phrases and jargons.
Below is a landing page that doesn't explain what this website is about or what type of services they provide.
When you are writing for a brand, you should explain everything because there will be people who will be visiting it for the first time. There will also be readers who will land from an external source and they might not know the details that you might assume they do.
"As you know, we are a leading company based in UK…….."
What if a person is reading this sentence and doesn't know about the company? Add links. Give a brief overview of why you are a leading company in the UK.
Do Not Repeat
Repetition can take two forms:
- Repeating yourself
- Repeating what others have said
You can stop yourself from repeating by creating an outline. A detailed outline of the write-up will help you in addressing one point in a single paragraph, subheading or bullet.
Here is a great podcast on how to not repeat yourself as a writer.
When you reproduce or even rewrite, you are repeating what's already out there and has been said by someone else. Instead of wasting your time on reproducing (or rewording) without adding any new value, you should simply add a link to the source.
Yes, this will make your article shorter, but readers will love you because you didn't waste their time by writing the same old stuff.
Use Second Person
The use of you or your in a heading makes a post more sharable. Why?
Because it makes the content seem personal, and as if it's directed at readers. It's used for addressing readers as if you're really talking to them.
Give Credit
Be bold enough to give due credit to the original author of the content. You might steal content without even knowing it, so giving credit and citing the original author of the content (all types of content; image, text, infographic, etc.) has several benefits:
- Readers trust you.
- Authors trust you.
- Others will reciprocate.
- You won't be responsible for what others say. When you cite another's content, you actually pass the responsibility to them.
- You can provide a lot of value in a short article by adding links to multiple sources.
- Readers know you have done your homework.
If you're not sure how to give credit to the original author, this post by Corey Eridon and this post by Jason Keath are worth reading.
Use Bullet Points
The reduced attention span of many readers, slow reading time and tons of sources pose challenges for online content writers. Using bullet points make it easy for readers to quickly go through the main points.
Putting content in long paragraphs with no subheadings will frustrate readers, so don't encourage people to leave your website by making such mistakes.
Not every bullet point is worth reading. Converting a paragraph into a bullet point won't work. Robert Bruce, the founder of Rainmaker, shares 8 tips for writing bullet points that readers will actually read.
Every bullet point is a headline and must be crafted like one. To learn how to write bullet points like a pro, read this post by Kevin Carlton. It's a complete guide to writing bullet points that convert.
This video explains the importance of clarity in depth.
According to Brad Shorr, there are 6 enemies of clarity that restrict you from writing clear content. If you overcome these enemies, you can make your copy clear enough for readers – as well as for search engines.
Write About One Thing Only
Writing about one thing at a time will help you maintain focus. Choose a topic, then cover one point in each paragraph and make sure every paragraph adheres to the main topic.
When writing long articles, you might deviate from the main topic because it's natural to lose focus. This is where you have to write a detailed outline of the article so as to minimize deviations.
- Choose a topic.
- Create a list of points to discuss in the article.
- Establish connection and see whether each point links to the topic or not. Any points that do not fit in should be removed.
- Convert points into paragraphs, headings, subheadings and bullet points.
- Create a mind map. Add details, links to references and any specifics under each point.
- Adjust the structure of the article and entire outline to make it better. Anything that's irrelevant should be removed.
Cover Your Topic
Whatever your topic is, make sure you cover it in a way that readers don't have to go anywhere else. If readers repeat the same search query after going through your blog post, it's your failure.
If you want to cover every possible aspect of a topic, you should choose something specific. Broad topics are harder to cover.
It is easier to write about the types of apples available in North America rather than WordPress themes for ecommerce stores.
Choosing and narrowing down the topic is the real art here.
Neil Cunningham has explained in detail how to choose and narrow down a topic. Although it's related to research papers, it's equally applicable to online content writing, and the same technique can be used to narrow down a topic.
Once you have a narrow topic that's specifically about a single point, you can then cover it easily in a single article.
Short Paragraphs
According to Quick Sprout, a paragraph should have maximum 6 lines. Anything over 6 lines is not generally a good idea.
"Writing is visual—it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain. Short paragraphs put air around what you write and make it look inviting, whereas a long chunk of type can discourage a reader from even starting to read."
Write Professionally
Writing professionally is the essence of online content writing. While you have to talk to the readers in a language that they can understand easily, you don't have to go too low to make it look unprofessional.
Choose a tone that's friendly and understandable, while maintaining professionalism.
For instance, if you're a cashier in a bank who deals with hundreds of clients every single day, you have to follow a certain dress code to look professional, irrespective of your client's dress code. If people standing in a queue right in front of your desk are wearing informal dresses, you will still have to dress professionally.
The same is true for writing. No matter where your readers are coming from, a content writer's job is to be professional.
Use one Idea per Paragraph
You don't always have to write short paragraphs. Sometimes you'll be required to write longer ones.
A general rule is to cover one idea per paragraph.
You can have a paragraph as short as one sentence. If idea needs a lot of explanation, it is better to use one point per paragraph. It just depends on the underpinning idea that you're conveying. As long as your paragraph covers the idea (or a single point) completely, you're good to go.
Diction means the selection of words by the writer. Diction is used to create expression and to develop the mood.
Being an online content writer, you should have access to a dictionary to help your choose the best words to create the right mood and atmosphere.
Use this thesaurus to find the exact words you're looking for.
Limit List Items
Limiting yourself to 7 list items will improve conversions as readers tend to remember first few items (generally 7 to 10) in a bulleted list.
In case you have a long list of items, categorize and convert them into batches.
Visual Impression
According to Google's research, users form their opinions in as little as 17 ms after landing on your website.
You have on average 50 ms to create a visual impression inside your reader's mind – and this impression is formed by what they see on your page.
Though this concept is more related to design but the headline, area above the fold, a power word, an emotion-driven statement or even font color can do the trick.
Visitors develop opinions in an instant, as soon as they land, 50 ms is just an instant so don't expect readers to read entire headline rather they will see the image, color scheme or a couple prominent words.
See how cancer is visually prominent on the entire page.
The importance of images in content writing cannot be denied. The following infographic by mdg advertising shows the real power of images and why they matter.
By 2017, online videos will account for 69 percent of all traffic, as forecasted by Cisco visual networking index.
The simple truth about videos is that they have the power to go viral. According to Kristin Lisak, one of the primary characteristics of viral content is that it is easy to share.
Videos have the potential to engage people 10 times more than other types of content. Videos are best for ROI, according to 52 percent marketers.
What's the takeaway?
Embed videos in your blog posts to deliver massive information in a short clip.
Cross 1500 Words
It has been long proved that more text you add, better search engine ranking you get, more links your content receives, it is shared 68 percent more on Twitter and gets 23 percent more shares on Facebook – as compared to articles with a lower number of words.
The following images tell the story.
As the number of words increase, so does the search engine ranking of your article.
Blog posts at Quick Sprout with word count 1500+ are shared 68 percent more on Twitter and get 23 percent more likes on Facebook.
As the word count increases, articles start getting more backlinks. There is a positive association between number of backlinks an article earns and number of words article has.
So try to make your articles and blog posts at least 1500 words.
Outbound Links
An outbound or external link is a link to other websites. Adding links to other website is a controversial topic.
The video by Cyrus Shepard explains the controversy and the two opposing schools of thought.
The choice is yours, but linking to other websites is a good way to prove yourself as an authority. Your readers will think 'this guy knows the best in the field'.
So if you are writing about search engine ranking and adding a link to moz.com, it shows your readers (as well as search engines) that you have done your homework.
Gaining the trust of your readers gets a lot easier when you link out to the best sources.
Internal Links
A link to your own website or its pages is called an internal link. These can be used in breadcrumbs, links in the footer, and links within the article. This is an internal link that links to Content Ray's homepage.
Using internal links will not hurt your website's ranking so you are free to use as many of them as you want. The video below by Matt Cutts explains why.
Internal links help visitors:
- In navigation
- In accessing relevant information
When writing content, make sure you add some relevant internal links in the content.
Hyperlinks, in general, increase the trustworthiness of your content. Hyperlinks (both internal and external) stand out from the other text and this is exactly why you should use them in content.
Hyperlinks look visually pleasing.
Here is an image from Wikipedia with links. You can see those blue links distributed throughout, and how attractive they look.
Even if you hate external links and don't want to pass on any link juice, use internal links just to make your page more colorful and appealing.
Descriptive Links
Links should be descriptive and tell readers what this link is about and where it leads.
The following links from an article by Neil Patel are a good example of using descriptive text links that clearly tell the reader what they're about and where they'll lead them.
It is not always necessary to use descriptive links as long as you have explained all about the link. But since descriptive links stand out from the rest of the text, they must be preferred.
Use Backups
According to Brad Zomick Chief Content Officer at SkilledUp, backup is a content enhancer which is used to strengthen the arguments that are used in content writing. For instance; statistics, facts, quotes and anecdotes are backups.
Backups make arguments more powerful.
For instance, the majority of marketers prefer to use video marketing is not as powerful as 87 percent of the marketers prefer video marketing.
The second argument is backed by statistic, and it links to the source where you can find more information about the argument.
Backups induce readers to trust you and believe what you have written as long as you have linked to the actual source of information. If you haven't linked out to the source of the backup, readers will believe it's self-created.
Dr. Joseph Assan at the University of Liverpool defines the purpose of writing a conclusion as:
- To summarize
- To provide answers to any questions
- To highlight limitations
- To highlight related topics to be covered
Although this document and pattern is used for writing a conclusion for a research thesis, it's very much applicable for online content writing as well.
There is nothing better than writing a detailed conclusion rather than just asking readers to share their viewpoints in the comments.
Every article or blog post has some limitations and these must be highlighted. You should provide answers to the questions that readers might have, clearly state the related topics that will be covered in future, and create a short summary of the entire article to help readers remember the article.
Call to Action
A Call to Action (CTA) is a request (a call) to take action. CTA tells readers what they have to do.
CTAs are the most critical part of articles. Phrases like click here, get a free quote, get instance access, click here if you want to double website visitors in 2 weeks are all CTAs.
According to a study conducted by Online Marketing Coach, 70 percent of the US small business websites don't have a CTA at their homepage.
You can put a call to action anywhere in the content. A good idea is to use them throughout the content but don't overdo it.
Here are some tips to craft killer CTAs.
- Keep it simple and easy-to-read.
- Create a sense of urgency.
- Make it relevant to the topic.
- One offer per CTA should be used.
- Clearly state what readers are expected to do and what they will get in return.
- Use power words.
- Make descriptive hyperlinks.
Below are some good CTA examples.
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Use MS Word Smartly
There are a whole bunch of things that you can do with MS Word, and I still find something new and surprising every now and then.
For instance, you can use shortcuts to save time and there are features that let you get your job done easily.
If you still use a pointer, touchpad or mouse while typing, you are not using MS Word effectively, and there's much more you can learn.
Use a Swipe File
Heather Lloyd explains pretty well why a swipe file is important for online content writing.
Use a Dictionary
There are a lot of words that writers misuse such as affect – effect, accept – except and many others. Access to an online dictionary such as dictionary.com while writing will help you find right words.
Misused words at daily writing tips is one of the best resources for writers.
Author Bio
An author bio is a nice place to add information about yourself. Whether you're writing for your own blog or publishing a guest post, an author bio can help readers know you, find you and connect with you.
Want to write an attractive author bio? Read this post at Hubspot for crafting a great one.
Writing Tools
Writing tools can help you a lot, and there are several that can be used for effective online content writing.
Here's a list of 22 writing tools compiled by Lauren Holiday.
Writing tools help you with:
- Writing
- Limiting distractions
- Grammar
- Improving readability
- Minimizing errors and typos
- Focusing
- Idea generation
- Documentation
- Optimization
One of my favorite tools is the readability test tool which measures how easy-to-read your content is.
Cloud Storage
Your job doesn't end once your content has been published. As the writer and owner of every word you've written, you should keep a backup.
Using cloud storage to backing up all your content has several benefits:
- You never lose your content.
- It can be accessed from anywhere.
- It can be accessed from multiple devices.
Cloud storage such as Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and Copy can be used to store any content online.
Sync files and folders in real-time so as to avoid loss of data in case of a malfunctioning hard disk.
Bold and Italics
Bold and italic words, phrases and sentences might not impact SEO but they do impact readability.
Bold, italic and underline make it easy for readers to scan content. Making important sentences and phrases bold will make them stand out.
While it is a good idea to make most of bold and italics but don't overuse these tags.
Featured Image
In most of the cases, choosing a featured image is not the responsibility of the writer but it doesn't hurt if you choose a suitable and appealing featured image for content you have written.
Since it is the image that will be featured on home page, with excerpt and at social networks therefore it has to be an image which is a representative of the title. It must be relevant as well as visually appealing.
Keyword Prominence
The keyword prominence means how prominent keywords are. It is a measure of prominence of keywords.
The prominence of a keyword increases if it is put at the beginning of the title, heading and paragraph. Keywords when placed in the middle or at the end of the title, heading and paragraphs will lose their prominence.
Marieke van de Rakt, project manager at Yoast, says:
"If you not only want a good but also an SEO-friendly blog post, your text should be written in such a way that the words you want to be found for have a very prominent place."
Keyword prominence is a Google ranking factor but it does not hold a lot of value.
Keyword Density
The keyword density is the number of times you use a specific keyword as compared to total word count of the article. There is no best keyword density rather it varies.
Let's see what Matt Cutts have to say about keyword density.
So there is no optimal keyword density, keep it natural.
Letter Case
The use of proper case style not only make content easy-to-read but it also makes it visually appealing.
Choose a single case to be used for headings and titles. You can choose to write headings, subheadings and titles in Title Case or Sentence case. Follow the same rule throughout the article.
Capital letters slow reading speed and are not considered reader-friendly.
The sentence case is easiest to implement and is more reader-friendly therefore it should be preferred over Title and CAPITAL case.
Sentence Structure
The sentence structure is how a sentence is organized grammatically. There are four types of sentence structures; simple, compound, complex and compound-complex.
Here is an exercise at Purdue OWL that will help you avoid basic sentence structure errors.
For online content writing, simple sentence structure happens to be best. Writing complex and/or compound sentences will make content unreadable for a large portion of target audience.
Sentence Flow
There are two components of sentence flow; sentence length and thought progression.
Sentences should flow in a sequence so that transition from one sentence to the next is smooth and logical.
In their article Using Kintsch's computational model to improve instructional text, Britton and Gulgoz suggested a really easy method to make sentence flow logical. Use information from one sentence in the following sentence. Common information between current and the following sentence will create a natural and logical flow. Information that's used at the end of a sentence should be used as the beginning information in the next sentence and so on.
Here is an example.
Font Type
The font that you choose is correlated to readability and is linked to emotions of the readers.
The infographic below by Ted Hunt shows how five major types of fonts are linked to the psychology of readers.
Mikael Cho recommends choosing serif or san-serif font because other fonts like script and decorative are not easy-to-read. Decorative, script, display and modern are fonts that are stylish and are more suited for logos while serif and san-serif fonts are easier to read due to their traditional structure.
Font Size
There has been a lot of debate as to what is the optimal font size for text on a website. But 16 pixels is supposed to be best font that you should use as it appears to be of same size as that of printed book.
Most web browsers use 16 pixels as default font size therefore you should use 16 pixel font size to make text readable and visible even from a distance.
Using 12 pixel font is a big no as it gets too small, especially when there is 28 inches recommended distance between screen and the user.
Font Color
The font color must be selected in terms of background. It is recommended to use dark font on light background as doing opposite will reduce readership between 50 percent and 400 percent.
Using light font on dark background will stress reader's eyes and it doesn't look visually pleasing.
White Space
The white space or whitespace refers to the empty space on a webpage. It is also the space between paragraphs, lines, sentences and words.
The white space is positively correlated to the satisfaction of the reader and is found to be less-fatigued for readers. In a study by Oslen, it was found that white space around highlighted items increases their prominence so if you have to increase the prominence of a sentence, make sure that it has fair enough white space around it.
Lin in his study 'Evaluating older adults' retention in hypertext perusal: impacts of presentation media as a function of text topology' found that white space between and on sides of paragraphs (or any type of written text) increases comprehension by 20 percent. Readers are able to understand and digest what you have written easily if there is enough white space around and among paragraphs.
Text in the picture below is not reader-friendly due to the lack of white space.
Make sure you have inserted enough white space between paragraphs on the Word processor as well as on the Content Management System.
Background Color
This is an online content writing guideline that's not actually related to writers but in case if you are also responsible for publishing content or if you have your own blog, you should use light background color.
Did you ever see a textbook with white text on black pages?
Traditionally, the best background color is white (a light color) and best font color is black (dark color). If you hate following old school, choose a light background color and dark font color.
There is, of course, no simple formula to find out the best color scheme based on your website's design but a humble recommendation is to go for black on white and make reader's life easy.
Image Captions
According to Drew Eric Whitman, image captions receive 200 percent higher readership on a page with no headlines and image caption receives two times more views as compared to the text body.
Kissmetrics stated that captions get as much as 300% more views than the article body.
Imagine putting your CTAs in caption, sounds interesting.
Don't waste this most read part of content.
Alt Attribute
The alt attribute is used to describe the actual image and its content. Video below by Matt Cutts has some useful information about alt attribute.
In terms of SEO, alt tag does impact rankings and it is a Google ranking factor with fairly high value. But it doesn't mean you should start spamming alt text. It should be an alternate text that should describe the content of the image (what is in the image) so make sure you write something about the image in the alt attribute.
Keep alt text short, nice and targeted without stuffing in keywords.
Image Optimization
An image has following attributes:
- Title
- File name
- Alt tag
- Description
- Caption
These 5 factors together make images optimized and stand out. But alt text gets the highest value.
Fill up these 5 attributes of the image before its uploaded and goes live with the article. Everything that you put in these 5 attributes should be related to the image.
This information is processed by search engines and any contradiction will result in low ranking and poor user experience.
For instance, you have an image of an apple.
You have put:
- Title – green apple
- File name – my-website
- Alt tag – weight loss treatment
- Description – how to lose weight in 10 days
- Caption – N/A
For a search engine, it gets hard to figure out whether your image is about apple, weight loss or my website. This image is sending multiple non-related signals to search engines and will stand nowhere.
Title Tag
It is the title of your article and holds critical importance for following reasons:
- It is shown in the browser
- It is visible in the search results (first 50 characters)
- It is seen with the URL. Every time your URL is shared, people see title tag
- It impacts SEO
According to Moz, optimal format for title tag should be:
Primary keyword – Secondary keyword | Brand name
Your main keyword should be at the start of the title.
Despite having a killer title, Google might not show it and can replace it with a better title. Here is how Matt Cutts explains this phenomenon.
Here is how Google choose titles.
You should start focusing on title tags and make them relevant (to search query and your website), descriptive and concise.
This post at hobo is worth reading about title tags and how to make them better.
Heading Tags
There are 6 heading tags; h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6. H1 is the most important while h6 is the least important but it doesn't mean you should start exploiting h1 tags.
Use heading tags smartly and carefully. You can use multiple h1 in a single article but don't do it unnecessarily.
Since Google might use any of your heading tags as title so better make them relevant, descriptive and concise.
The basic purpose of using heading tags should be to structure content.
Meta Description
The meta description is the element that describes your page to search engines and tells them what your page is about. It has to be well-written, related to article body, concise, descriptive and adding a few keywords do not hurt.
A meta description is used to describe a webpage so if you have written an article about small business writing tips, you must write a meta description that signal search engines what this article is about.
Google will not always use your meta description rather it can create its own meta description based on search query. Other search engines like Bing will use meta description you provided.
Google has three sources to create a meta description for any given article that you have written.
- It can use your meta description.
- It can pull content from different or same parts of the article body to make a meta description of its own.
- Relevant content can be pulled from directories where you have listed your website.
Most of the leading SEO blogs don't use meta descriptions such as Moz, Search Engine Watch and SEO Book but Google clearly stated to have meta description on every page on your website.
So you should better write meta descriptions that are:
- Unique
- Concise
- Descriptive
- Relevant to the article body
- Have a CTA
Though meta descriptions do not hold much SEO importance but they are extremely handy in getting good click-through rate as this very description is used in search results and social networks.
Use Multimedia
Using images, videos and audio make content user-friendly, and Google also gives importance to content that is interactive.
Having multimedia embedded in content will send positive signals to Google and this will help achieve better search engine ranking.
External Links
Adding external links (or outbound links) has multiple benefits but importantly, these links impact SEO ranking.
Idea is simple, when you link out to relevant websites (or even authority websites), it sends search engines signals about relevancy of the topic.
Put Keyword at Start
Brian Dean says to put keyword in first 100 words. The earlier you place your keyword in the article introduction, the better it is as it gives search engines a good signal that what this page is about.
I don't do this (intentionally) as Google chooses its own snippets so it doesn't matter where you are putting a keyword in the article body as long as you have a descriptive meta data, you are good to go.
But Google is not the only search engine that your target audience uses, there are other search engines that do give importance to keyword placement.
If an excerpt of your article is shown at home page, in social networks or at other websites, this keyword will get picked.
Nofollow or Dofollow Links
Nofollow links instruct search engines not to pass on the link juice to an external URL while dofollow links instruct to pass on the link juice.
It is like do not and do pass the link juice.
Here is what Matt Cutts is saying about these two types of links.
So it is simple.
Use nofollow for untrusted websites and dofollow for trusted websites.
Updating Content
Updating content often (as per need) will keep article fresh and updated. Adding new content and updating content improves ranking.
News websites are crawled multiple times a day because these are updated fairly often. The search engines use different metrics to measure freshness of content, the rate of changes on the page is one among them.
Adding or even removing big chunks of information from a published article will send freshness signals to search engines resulting in improvement in ranking.
This content update has to be done if needed – not just for the sake of influencing rankings.
Use SEO Tools
There are hundreds of SEO tools that online content writers can use to craft copies that rank better. Moz has 100 SEO tools that will help you with SEO.
nTopic for Topic Generation
nTopic is my favorite tool that is helpful in improving ranking of published content by suggesting improvements related to keywords, topic relevancy and excluding terms that are not relevant to the topic.
Finally it is time to edit and proofread content before it is sent for publication.
Difference between Proofreading and Editing
The proofreading and editing are different where proofreading is used for identifying and correcting grammatical errors, spell, typos, formatting and punctuation errors, whereas editing takes a deep look into the copy for ensuring correctness of structure and organization, sentence flow and arguments.
Check Flow
See if sentences flow logically. Does transition from one sentence to the next is smooth and logical?
Following are some important factors to look at when checking logical flow of an article.
- Idea (or point) is explained fully by the sentence (or sentences).
- Paragraphs should relate to each other.
- Start and end of sentences and paragraphs should talk about the same idea (or point).
- Remove any repetitions of sentences and/or ideas.
Clarity in content writing takes two forms; concept clarity and structure clarity.
Concept clarity is related to the idea, topic and underlying phenomenon that you have talked about while structure clarity refers to the clarity of overall structure of the copy and how you have organized everything.
To ensure clarity, you have to inspect the content for sentence clarity. Purdue has a detailed guide on improving clarity at sentence level.
Here are a few things to check to certify content clarity.
- Are you using words or phrases that are hard to understand, replace them.
- Get rid of jargons.
- Get rid of passive voice.
- Get rid of overused words and phrases.
The consistency is easy to maintain. Use a single term instead of using different terms to refer same phenomenon.
It is defined as treating same elements in content in the same order.
For instance, if you are writing about on-page SEO make sure you have used the same term instead of using similar terms such as on-site SEO.
Meaningful Whole
Does content talk about the topic and forms a meaningful whole?
Whatever you have written should be related to the topic. Remove content that's not related to the underpinning idea as such content is referred to as fluff.
You might have to remove massive chunks of text or even rewrite major portions to make it a meaningful whole.
The accuracy of content is not only important for readers but it is something that Google is giving a lot of weight. The content accuracy is a major Google ranking factor.
The accuracy refers to correctness of the facts and the information used in the content. This must be rechecked during editing phase because inaccurate information (facts or stats) will not going to help.
"I try to leave out the parts that readers tend to skip." – Elmore Leonard
Yes, make content concise.
The basic issue with online content writers is that they cannot write without giving due importance to word count. This is why most of us hate backspace button.
But having concise and to-the-point content will not going to hurt as Truman Capote said:
"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil"
Spell check tools are not as reliable as a human proofreader. According to Steve Olenski, spell check is not always accurate so stop trusting them. Relying on a spell check is a biggest mistake content writers make.
Either proofread content yourself or ask a peer to do it.
Typographical Errors
The typographical mistakes are common but using a grammar checking tool to fix typos is even a bigger mistake.
Some common typographical mistakes to check are:
- Double spacing
- Inconsistent font size
- Inconsistent font, font color and heading tags
- Capitalization, sentence and title case
- Date
- Abbreviations
- Punctuations
Grammatical Errors
Don't make the mistake of relying on grammar check tools. Read this grammar guide at Purdue and this grammar handbook at Grammarly before you sit down and start proofreading content for grammatical errors.
Here is an infographic to help you fix 10 common grammatical errors.
Fix Punctuation
There are several common punctuation mistakes that content writers are used to make. Fix them before your copy goes live.
This infographics by Punctuation Checker is helpful in getting things straight.
Style Errors
The style errors are hard to spot unless you have a style guide.
The consistency in writing style is hard to detect by someone else so you have to proofread content yourself to find and fix style errors.
Create Checklist
Creating a checklist for proofreading and editing content makes it easy. A checklist tells you what you have to look for in the document to make it perfect. It is just like a style guide.
Here is an example checklist.
Use this or create your own comprehensive checklist.
Read Aloud
One of the best proofreading strategies is to read aloud, according to University of Minnesota and Purdue.
Read yourself or ask someone else. When you read aloud, you start noticing things that go unnoticed otherwise. This is because now your brain process information differently.
Self-Editing Rule
Normally, self-editing content that you wrote is not considered a good idea. Even if you have to self-edit the content, make sure you don't do it instantly.
Edit it after a day or two to get back to it with fresh mind.
Edit it multiple times using different methods:
- Using a ruler for editing is helpful. Put a ruler on the next line to cover it so that you can focus on the line you are reading.
- Use a checklist.
Read Backwards
Reading backwards (from end to start) is helpful in proofreading to some extent. You can find spell errors and typos but you will not be able to find grammatical errors.
If it is a short article that you are dealing with, reading backwards is a good idea.
For longer ones, it is not as helpful.
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'Halfway Up and Halfway Down and Nowhere At All' in issue 025 of Luna Station Quarterly.
'Weighty Questions', in Furthest Tales of the City (available in ebook and paperback form), from Obverse Press.
'Talking With Spores', in Iris Wildthyme of Mars (ebook form, hardback), from Obverse Press.
'Blocking', in Strange Bedfellows, from Bundoran Press.
'Gonna Crack It All Open', in Twisted Boulevard (UK link, or direct from publisher here), from Elektrik Milk Bath Press.
'Squatter's Rights', in Burning with Optimism's Flames, from Obverse Press.
'Lost Ships and Lost Lands', in OQ 2.1: Tales of the City from Obverse Press.
'Skitterings in Corners' (illustration by Svetlana Sukhorukova), in issue 3 of the Journal of Unlikely Entemology.
'Witches Have Cats', in Hellebore & Rue.
'Salt Water', in Eclectic Flash: The Best of 2010.
'Things Found on a Beach, at Slow Trains Literary Journal.
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On Nov. 15, 1995, she married Steve Buckingham in Claremont, N.H.
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She enjoyed singing and attending church.
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CHICAGO � Want to know how much a hip replacement will cost? Many hospitals won�t be able to tell you, at least not right away � if at all. And if you shop around and find centers that can quote a price, the amounts could vary astronomically, a study found.
Routine hip replacement surgery on a healthy patient without insurance may cost as little as $11,000 � or up to nearly $126,000.
That�s what researchers found after calling hospitals in every state, 122 in all, asking what a healthy 62-year-old woman would have to pay to get an artificial hip. Hospitals were told the made-up patient was the caller�s grandmother, had no insurance but could afford to pay out of pocket � that�s why knowing the cost information ahead of time was so important.
About 15 percent of hospitals did not provide any price estimate, even after a researcher called back as many as five times.
The researchers were able to obtain a complete price estimate including physician fees from close to half the hospitals. But in most cases, that took contacting the hospital and doctor separately.
�Our calls to hospitals were often greeted by uncertainty and confusion,� the researchers wrote. �We were frequently transferred between departments, asked to leave messages that were rarely returned, and told that prices could not be estimated without an office visit.�
Many hospitals �are just completely unprepared� for cost questions, said Jaime Rosenthal, a Washington University student who co-authored the report.
Most hospitals aren�t intentionally hiding costs, they�re just not used to patients asking. That�s particularly true for patients with health insurance who �don�t bother to ask because they know insurance will cover it,� said co-author Dr. Peter Cram, a researcher at the University of Iowa�s medical school.
But he said that�s likely to change as employers increasingly force workers to share more health-care costs by paying higher co-payments and deductibles, making patients more motivated to ask about costs.
The study was published online last week in JAMA Internal Medicine. A California study published last year about surgery to remove an appendix found similar cost disparities.
Commenting on the study, American Hospital Association spokeswoman Marie Watteau said hospitals �have a uniform set of charges. Sharing meaningful information, however, is challenging because hospital care is unique and based on each individual patient�s needs.�
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Sean Toohey, a grains broker at the Chicago Board of Trade, had hip replacement surgery last summer at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill. An old sports injury had worn out his left hip, causing �horrendous� pain on the job, where he�s on his feet all day filling orders.
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An editorial accompanying the hip replacement study said �there is no justification� for the huge cost variation the researchers found.
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A proposed federal measure that would have required states to force hospitals to make their charges public failed to advance in Congress last year but could be revived this year, the editorial says.
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- Mineral Industry in Egypt– Part II Non-Metallic Commodities –
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Abstract: Mineral Industry in Egypt– Part II Non-Metallic Commodities – Silica Ores
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Author M. Ezz-El DinA. M. AbouzeidKh. El maadawyA. M. KhalidR. E. El Sheri
Silicon, nowadays, is involved in many advanced and high technology industries due to its unique property. The silica ores exist in the form of quartz, quartzite, and white sand. In Egypt, quartz is confined to igneous and metamorphic origins, while white sand exists in the form of sedimentary deposits. Quartz and quartzite are found in association with basement rocks in Eastern Desert and Western Desert. While white sand deposits are widely distributed in Sinai, Eastern Desert, and Western Desert, with the most commercial deposits in Sinai and Eastern Desert.Estimation of the geological and economic reserves indicate huge tonnages of all types of silica ores. Quartz reserves sum up to 20 million tons, and silica sands sum up to more than 3 billion tons. Evaluation of the chemical and physical characteristics of the silica in Egypt showed high quality silica with low contaminations. The major part of these reserves is available through open-pit mining with very low costs due to minimal overburden. Some of the silica sand deposits contain a high percentage of white kaolin, up to about 11 percent, which is separated as a valuable economic byproduct. The basic processing operations of the white sand are washing, screening, attrition scrubbing, desliming and dewatering. In some locations magnetic separation is used for the removal of magnetic impurities. Academic research work showed that the quality of the white sand product can be improved when froth flotation operation is used.
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- Modeling the Recovery of Froth Flotation Using Game Theory
Abstract: Modeling the Recovery of Froth Flotation Using Game Theory
Pages 1-8
Author Mohammed-Noor Al-Maghrab
For a better understanding of froth flotation principle and to explain the conflict in flotation a recovery model is formulated. From the theoretical formulation, it transpires that based on the gain values of the various strategies of the three players in a game theory, it is possible to predict pure mineral recovery using flotation column by summing up the concentrate of the two players at a time. The present work is an attempt to apply the game theory to a mineral extraction problem where the aim of flotation optimization is to find the operating conditions which gives the highest grade and recovery using game theory with three players.
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