Learn from Spammers – Content Writing Tips #1
How do you feel if you get such comments in your blog post / article?
My business is really thankful for the author with this post to make this lovely and informative article live in charge of us. We really appreciate your effort. Sustain the great work. . . .
Or this:
Kudos for posting such a useful weblog. Your blog isn’t only informative but also very artistic too. There tend to be very handful of individuals who can write not simple articles that creatively. Maintain the excellent writing!!
Or this:
When I visit a blog, chances are that I see that the construction is poor and the writing bad. On the other hand, I could honestly say that you writing is decent and your website solid.
Experienced bloggers will immediately identify these as spam comments. They will trash these comments in no time. Fresh bloggers may find these cool and keep them published. All depends on the chance factor.
However, I really find them amazing… Especially from a content writer’s point of view.
Let’s analyze some salient features of all these spammy comments and find out some traits of good content:
- General: None of these comments say anything specific to the blog posts where the comments were posted. Do you do the same when writing an article? If your answer is yes, you and the website owner got a problem. Do not write if you do not have something substantial to write about. Otherwise, we would not have called them spam comments.
- Make the reader happy: Everybody loves to be praised. All these comments are doing just that – making the blogger happy for writing article so that the spammer gets a chance to stay in the comment thread. Does your article make the readers happy? Do you spend those extra moments or offer something extra to motivate the reader to take an action or to make them happy?
- Address directly: All these comments are directly addressing the author / blogger. This is one of the most important aspects of web content writing. You do not know the reader but you must communicate in such a way that you are interacting with a reader. And this applies to every reader of your article.
People say spammers are smart. What do you say about content writers?
Last but not the least: here is another example:
What did you do, just say whatever it is you wanted to make people mad?! You can’t just say something like that and not give any backup for it! You’ve got to at least give me a reason to suppose that you know what you’re talking about; otherwise, you just sound like some kid with a grudge!
Just look how the spammer is challenging the blogger. If the blogger takes it personally and replies, the comment stays 
..
And sometimes the system goes wrong and you publish something like this:
Youre so cool! I dont {suppose|think Ive read anything like this before. So good|nice|great|awesome|useful to find somebody with some original thoughts on this subject. thanks|realy thank you|thank you|appreciate for starting this up. this blog|site|website is something that is needed on the web, someone with a little originality. good|nice|great|awesome|useful job for bringing something new to the internet!
This may happen with any content publisher working on some content spinner to generate bulk content.
Debleena 5:57 pm on 16/12/2010 Permalink |
This is again another angle to content writing. In fact I have seen many people grimacing when I said that I am a content writer (talking of employers)….so I guess this attitude is because of the general level of writing…..I have been through a situation where I had to spin good write ups and make them really bad (in fact “bad” is an understatement). Why is it that a writer from “Times Of India” is seen with respect and a content writer is pushed to “general” category? Yes, these inhibitions are not born from nowhere…..most of the content writers in various SEO companies produce content which is not even readable….they just write, stuff and publish….so this bulk content producing procedure definitely justifies the categorization….I have been in the web industry for the last two years and have learnt to design my content to some extent (though still I am learning)….so this post is kinda telling us that writing must make sense and more so must communicate….so u need to become a good reader to become a good writer……it is time we set a trend (for all web writers)…..it was great to read this….