Attracting an Audience with Valuable Content
You’ve got to write a lot of SEO optimized content in order to attract an audience to read your stories. You’ve got your books, your blog posts and your articles. You can also work on creating videos and other art, like Inkscape drawings and Krita paintings.
Once you have a pretty good selection of content posted, start focusing on attracting traffic to your website. When you are wondering what you should do next, think about what you can do to attract an audience.
Be honest. You may be able to attract an audience using deception, but once they figure out that they have been deceived, they’ll leave and never come back.
Be realistic. Is what you are offering really valuable to people? Remember, there are a lot of people creating content. The competition is fierce. I’m not trying to discourage you, I’m teaching you that you have to produce truly valuable content to attract and retain your audience.
Cultivate your talent. Practice. Get really good at some valuable skills and promote your knowledge, skill and wisdom on your Bluehost website and your WordPress blog.
Headings
Start your stories with an outline of section headings. Search engines like headers and so do people. A lot of times people will scan your headers to see if they are interested in your story. Make sure your headings tell an interesting story. Make them draw your audience into the story.
Your headings will help you organize your thoughts and ideas and the flow of your stories. Instead of wandering back and forth from one idea to another, you will get in the habit of putting all the ideas about each topic under the header for that topic.
Search Engine Optimization
Writing blog posts that are optimized with your Yoast SEO system, is one of the most important actions you can take to attract traffic. Search engines want new content. Fresh, high quality content is the great attractor for website traffic.
You can go through some of your old stories and update them using Yoast SEO. Or you can write new stories using Yoast. Get in the habit of optimizing all your stories with Yoast.
Let Yoast teach you how to write. At first, getting your stories optimized will take a lot of work. As you get experience using Yoast, you will learn how to write stories that are more optimized to begin with.
Study poetry and read a lot of literature and follow the yoast system to get your stories shining. The key is to produce a steady flow of content. At first your stories will seem labored. The more experience you get, the more smoothly your stories will flow.
Fresh content
Get in the habit of writing on a regular schedule. When you’re finished with a project and wondering what to do next, start writing. Write a blog post. Get in the habit of writing at least one blog post every week.
If you want to be a professional writer, you will have to work hard. If you do not have a job, you should be writing at least 40 hours a week. It will be difficult sometimes. You’ll be wondering what you should write about. Keep writing.
You may have to delete a lot of your writings. You’ll delete a lot of paragraphs. You’ll delete a lot of sentences. Sometimes you’ll even delete whole stories.
You will rewrite your stories several times. Before and after you publish them. One good thing about writing online is, you can easily update a story on your website.
It’s probably more productive to write new stories. You’ll have to learn how to name your stories well. The more stories you have, the more difficult it will be to come up with unique names for them.
Professional Content Creator
Keep working at your job until you have a good selection of products and services to offer. Its best to keep working until you replace that income with income from your writing and other ecommerce projects.
Once you start earning income from your website (Advertisement), start focusing on what works for you. Like a running back, once you see the opportunity, run as fast as you can through that opening.