Streamline Your Articles For Maximum Impact

Readers on the web scan rather read. They are trying to gather as much information as fast as possible. This is because of the large amount of information out there. Anything searched for will yield several pages of results and many look inviting. The result of this is that anyone who gets to your page through a search engine also has several other pages they want to read also.
Grab the visitors attention fast by getting right into the subject. To give your articles what readers want fast, cut out all words and phrases that do not pertain to the subject. Words like “however” can be removed. Remove anything from your article that could be considered filler and just concentrate on the subject contained in your title.
Search for and remove phrases like:

  • ok lets get started
  • I am glad you asked that
  • I am often asked that

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Here is what Jakob Nielsen

Here is what Jakob Nielsen says about this:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html

Very sound advice, as an

Very sound advice, as an article marketer myself I can attest to web surfers short attention spans, and this is something I am working on improving.

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