Characteristics Of Quality Content
Posted on August 27, 2007 by
Adie 
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You’ve probably heard it before. If you want to make money online, you need to have quality content. But how do you know if your content is quality? How should you evaluate your content? Here are some things to think about when evaluating the quality of your content.
Bookmark Worthy
Can you see someone bookmarking your content? This means they intend to come back to your site. What can you write that will cause visitors to return to your site? Here are some ideas for developing bookmark worthy content. Write a comprehensive resource that takes longer than 5 minutes to read. Start a series of articles covering one topic in depth. Make a list of useful tutorials.
Link Worthy
Can you see someone linking to your content? Let’s get more specific. Who would be linking to you? This question helps you target your content to specific people.
For example, find 3 popular blogs that link out regularly. Now be relevant to your own readers, so choose blogs in the same niche. Follow those blogs for a couple of weeks and see what kind of content the bloggers link to. When you get a feel for their linking habits, create similar content. Even if you don’t get links from the 3 blogs, you might get links from bloggers that follow those blogs. Just make sure you’re also promoting your blog through blog commenting and other marketing tactics.
Here’s the main principle. The link worthiness of any piece of content depends on the link givers, or the linkerati. Write with them in mind.
Stick Around
Tomorrow I’ll have more characteristics of quality content.
How are you making your content bookmark and link worthy?
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You are ablsolutely right Dee. The blogs I have subscribed to has only a few things in common but when I find a new blog that lives up to those “rules” I am an instant subscriber. the rules are simple: 1) Related to Internet Marketing - 2) Provides Full RSS Feeds and 3) Writes long tutorial posts that provides loads of indepth information.
A great example (besides this blog naturally) is the http://www.doshdosh.com blog. Maki provides so much great content that is linkworthy.
Thanks for the positive feedback. I like tutorial posts, too. What other blogs are you subscribed too? I’m always looking for more quality blogs to put in my RSS reader.
I agree with the first part. You want someone to reread or come back. I don’t aim for link worthy, as much as I’d rather have a post help someone. If it does, they can link at their own discretion. This also means my Technorati rank sucks, but who’s dwelling? ;)
Another thing is comment worthiness. Does the post ask a question that creates a discussion, or say something that evokes ab emotion in the reader, enough to get them from RSS to the form?
Great point about comment worthiness. Asking questions at the end of a post seems to help in that regard.
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