You don’t have to be an incredible writer to produce content your audience loves. In fact, producing epic content relies more on providing them with value than the exact words you use to do it. Here are some tips to Improve Your Content.
If you think your content could be improved, or you’re just looking for ways to take your content to the next level, then this post is for you.
Below we offer you 7 ways you can improve your content, delight your readers, and gain all the associated benefits that come with.
1. Study Other Popular Content
Great content is content that helps your readers. Even if you think your content is solid, but you’re not getting a lot of traction it could be one of two things. First, there could be issues with content promotion and your readers just aren’t seeing your content. Second, you could be missing the main needs of your market.
Now, this isn’t a post on content promotion, so we’ll focus on the second issue, meeting your audience’s needs. The best way to find out what your audience actually wants to read is to study the content that’s actually popular in your niche.
You can either analyze the top content that’s ranking in Google. Or, you can use a tool like Buzzsumo, enter your target keyword, or the URL of a popular website and you’ll be able to see the content that’s the most popular.
This will help you craft similar content that truly hones in on the needs and desires of your audience.
2. Know What Your Audience Wants
This point continues from the first point. But, instead of figuring out the topics that your audience like reading we’re going to look into the formats your audience enjoys.
For example, maybe your audience doesn’t really take to reading long in-depth blog posts but instead prefers to consume more visual content, or video content, or maybe even podcasts and presentations.
When you’re looking into the most popular content in your niche you’ll want to also study the mechanics of the content to see what makes it successful.
Meeting your audience’s needs requires not only knowing what they want to read but how they want to read it.
3. Align Your Voice With Your Brand
Your voice needs to match both your company and the needs of your customers. For example, if you’re in a professional niche like financial management, then using a cheeky voice probably won’t do very much in building trust with your audience.
On the other hand, a super professional voice might not be well either if you’re selling custom dog beds to dedicated pet owners.
Landing on your perfect voice might take some time. After all, it needs to be in alignment with your company, your core values, and your audience’s desires. Over time, your real voice will come through.
One of the best ways to uncover your voice is by reading a lot and writing a lot. When you start your voice might sound very similar to those you read the most, but in time your real and authentic voice will shine through.
4. Spend Time on the Headline
Even if you have the best content in the entire world no one is going to read it if they can’t get past the headline.
You should spend as much time on your deadline as you do the best of your content, if not more. Come up with different variations of your headline and compare them to the most popular content in your niche.
If you’re stuck with headline ideas, then check out this resource, it’ll provide you with plenty of headline examples and tools that’ll help you create the most compelling headline possible.
5. Use Editing Tools
One final way to improve your writing is to edit it ruthlessly. Now, most of us have a hard time with grammar, it’s only natural.
Luckily, there are a few online tools you can use that make cleaning up your writing easy. Two of the most useful tools are Grammarly and Hemingway. You can use one of the tools, or both.
Regardless, they will help to clean up your writing and make it more powerful and mistake free. Two things your readers will thank you for.
We hope this tips above will help take your content to new heights. If you’re looking for an expert team to take care of all your content efforts for you, then reach out to our team today.
Calvin Bryant
Calvin is a digital expert with clients in the U.S., U.K., and the Caribbean Islands. As the founder of C7, he has worked with Joel Osteen, Carlos Santana, the FBI, and the NBA. He resides in Ponte Vedra, Florida, and is a proud father and husband of 28+ years to his wife, Krista.