“What is written without effort is, in general, read without pleasure.” Samuel Johnson
First and foremost, allow me to thank Chris Spooner, designer and writer, for motivating me to write this post as, what I would like to call it, a follow up to his recent post: 10 Usability Crimes You Shouldn’t Commit. I highly appreciate the unintentional inspiration!
Content is the Key by www.all-sorts.biz
There are millions of posts out there that provide you with tips and know-how’s for appealing content; stressing how the post should be long sometimes while, at other times, advising you to keep it short. Telling you that you need to have clear headings yet highlighting that they should not be different.
For this post, we will spice it up a bit for you! We will address the 10 content crimes you should avoid committing in efforts to answer the following questions: What kind of content has the power to drive people away from your site? What content related flaws might cause visitors to disregard the mere thought of reading your posts? What are the most annoying mistakes you can do in content writing?
10 Content Crimes You Should Avoid Committing:
1. Avoid Cluttering!
Although you might feel the need to write long posts to convey and explain a certain idea or concept, and despite having to write pages of factual content as times, make sure that your page has a clean clutter-free look!
Cluttered Text!
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You may have a good idea for a Wordpress plugin, and you may have invested a lot of time and energy into developing it. You are so enthusiastic about it and can’t wait to show it to the world. You realize that there are many other Wordpress plugins out there. You look around the Web and find very few tips about promoting your plugin! That’s why, we the Thoughtpickers, decided to put all we have learnt as well as a couple of days of research into this (hopefully comprehensive) article.
Wordpress Most Popular Plugins - The target!
Thoughtpick’s 14 pieces of advice to promote a new Wordpress plugin:
- Offer it for free: We realize that you most probably need some income in order to maintain and support your plugin, but people like free stuff. If it is new, then people would want to try it first. Try to offer a free version, and at a later stage, try offering some special features for a small fee. Some developers depend on donations to sustain their plugins, but that is usually not enough, check out other advices for sustaining your plugin financially here.
- Easy to install and use: Make sure that your plugin requires only few steps to get installed or people would simply get bored and abandon it all together. Check out how simple is installing Twitter for Wordpress plugin – it displays your latest tweets on your blog and only requires one easy step to install.
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10 Content Crimes You Should Avoid Committing!
First and foremost, allow me to thank Chris Spooner, designer and writer, for motivating me to write this post as, what I would like to call it, a follow up to his recent post: 10 Usability Crimes You Shouldn’t Commit. I highly appreciate the unintentional inspiration!
Content is the Key by www.all-sorts.biz
There are millions of posts out there that provide you with tips and know-how’s for appealing content; stressing how the post should be long sometimes while, at other times, advising you to keep it short. Telling you that you need to have clear headings yet highlighting that they should not be different.
For this post, we will spice it up a bit for you! We will address the 10 content crimes you should avoid committing in efforts to answer the following questions: What kind of content has the power to drive people away from your site? What content related flaws might cause visitors to disregard the mere thought of reading your posts? What are the most annoying mistakes you can do in content writing?
10 Content Crimes You Should Avoid Committing:
1. Avoid Cluttering!
Although you might feel the need to write long posts to convey and explain a certain idea or concept, and despite having to write pages of factual content as times, make sure that your page has a clean clutter-free look!
Cluttered Text!
[read full article >>]