Steven Walker

Steven Walker is a creative writer and content strategist who helps people succeed at self-education, writing, motivation and more by sharing with them his knowledge. Writes blog posts for McEssay. He is also an active guest writer on many websites.

Here is an excerpt from his homework help service task "How To Write An Article That Is Read By Thousands":

The obvious way in which to write an article which is read by thousands is to write the article upon an extremely popular and topical subject and publish it in a medium which is well respected and well read. If this were the only secret to success in this respect, however, would not every writer capable of stringing two sentences together be achieving such levels of success? Of course they would, therefore we can see straight away that the concept is far from being as simple as it may at first appear.

This is not to say that the subject of our article is not of paramount importance — of course it is. Writing on a topical subject will certainly increase our chances of our article being read by thousands of people and more but remember that there are certain subjects which are always topical and we need not only consider those which are presently making world news headlines. Subjects such as cooking recipes and advice, recommended travel destinations, "how to" articles on virtually any subject we care to consider and many more are always in high demand upon the search engines. We should therefore consider the subject of our proposed article very carefully and ensure that we pick one which we know a great deal about and can therefore write authoritatively upon.

When we are considering the subject of our article, we have to ensure that it is very specific. General titles and subjects may potentially have a wider appeal but it is a very grave mistake to position an article in such a way. The more general we make the article, the more competition it is going to have and the less likely it is to be picked up by the search engines or those browsing same. We should therefore be looking to target a very specific subsection or niche relating to our subject in order to stand the greatest chance of success when it comes to having our finished article read by thousands. For example, "How to prepare healthy fried chicken for dinner," is a far better title in terms of search engine optimisation than simply, "How to prepare dinner!"...