You know how great your business is. You probably think you cannot say enough good things about what you do. But you can.
We love your passion, but when it comes to telling your story on the web, you have only a small window of time to capture your visitors’ attention. If your website has too much content, you could be discouraging people from reading any of it.
To write web content that will get read, break up text into manageable, easily digestible sections with these tips:
You probably learned in English 101 that every paragraph should contain 4-6 sentences. The first sentence should be a topic sentence, followed by a few supporting sentences to uphold the idea of the first sentence, and wrapped up with a concluding sentence that brings it all together and starts the transition to the next paragraph.
This is irrelevant on the web.
Short paragraphs look easier to tackle and keep visitors reading.
Tell the story and drop the mic.
* Headings provide a roadmap of your content. Visitors skimming your site will use headings as cues to determine what you offer and decide if they will keep reading.
* Headings have SEO value. Using keywords in your headings not only tells site visitors what you do, search engines put more weight on words in a heading font. Maximize this opportunity to optimize your content for people AND robots.
Lists are eye-catching and are especially great for communicating benefits. Benefits of lists include:
You’ll catch readers’ eyes by pulling out important points with bold fonts for main ideas or italics to introduce lists.
See what I did there? It's effective!
All content is 10x better when it has a next step, whether that's a CTA for an event, a meeting to get more information, or one that provides an additional resource related to the content you just offered. Take this CTA right here, for example. This may be something you're interested in checking out next. Or maybe you want to check out our resource page about all things content marketing. As such, these kinds of things provide value to your readers that they wouldn't have had otherwise.