Damn, I never knew content generation could be so fun. I’ve been against it for months due to a stint at attempting to do article marketing in a niche that I was so not interested in.
This is probably the best advice I could give to myself or anyone else right now - just write content! Unless you are retarded and can’t actually write, there’s been quite an influx of idiots migrating from Digital Point to Wicked Fire recently that fit that description. My advice for these guys is to quit while you’re ahead, or at least go back to school.
Why write content?
If you know what to do with the content, then content is money. Or content is backlinks. Content is whatever you make it really. I’ve concentrated a lot more on the marketing side of things and to my shame I cannot show you one site that has half decent content on it.
Another reason for you is this: content is what the internet is made for. Ultimately you will have to come to terms with it at some point, Google are cracking down more and more on crap/thin content sites and before you know it there might not be a place for half-baked mini-sites. I am not an expert and don’t pretend to be, I’m just looking to the future and that’s what I see coming.
Tools of the trade
Content generation needs very few tools. As I said above, you need a brain and ideally the ability to type at a half-decent speed. I recommend learning to touch type, it works wonders, it really does.
I also recommend Q10 as an awesome text editor, and props to Emp from Blind Ape SEO for mentioning it, a good find. It turns your screen into a text input environment, full screen - all you can do is type! It blacks out everything else on the screen and leaves with a couple of details such as the time and your word count.
Music is also a much debatable tool to help with content generation, some people think that it hinders and distracts you whereas others believe it can be very motivational. I’m finding that it really depends what you listen to. At the moment I’m listening to an awesome UK (Welsh I think) band called Skindred.
They are the shiznitch, seriously. I don’t know how to describe them, I guess it’s metal/rap/Jamaican. Technically Jamaican isn’t a musical genre but what else can I call it, it’s not reggae I know that. It’s original, hardcore Jamaican metal - that might be the best bet. All I know is that by listening to them, my fingers are dancing away on this keyboard while my head bops like there’s no tomorrow.
WebWriMo
The WebWriMo is a challenge based on the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). The idea is to write 50,000 words in a month long period. I’m tempted to put my name down for it as I’ve already done a few words in the last two days alone and if I keep this pace up I’ll make good for the end of the month.
Just done a quick count up what I’ve gotten done so far in the last few days since I started getting into it: 4,457
Accoring to the WebWriMo I’d have to do another 45,000 in 20 days, so that’s 2,250 a day til then. A bit of a stretch but then that’s the idea.
