Best Tips For Writing A Great How-To Article

Shimon Alon
4 min readMar 28, 2022
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To get more people to visit your website, you’ll need to write articles that people will want to read and share. Because the quality of the articles on article directories can vary a lot, you need to make sure that yours are some of the best out there if you want your article marketing to be successful.

There is no limit to what you can write about and you can use any style you want. However, people must want to read it. “How to” articles are very popular with both website owners and the people who read them. They can be a good way to start your article marketing campaign. People read “how to” articles because they want someone to show them how to do something, right?

If you want to teach someone else how to do something, you’ll need to know how to do it yourself first. Stick to what you know. There are many ways to do this. There are many ways you can write “how-to” articles. If you know how to set up a router at home, you could write one on “how to service your car.” There are so many ways to write “how to” articles. In fact, you’re reading one right now.

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Therefore, let’s start now. It’s important to remember that you are the teacher when you write a “how to” article, so write with an authoritative tone. The person you are teaching may not know much about the subject at hand. So write in a simple way and make your instructions clear, and you’ll be on the right track.

At the start of your article, tell your reader what their goal is and how it will be achieved. This way, they will know what they need to do to reach their goal. Then, they will be ready for whatever comes next. So tell them what they need to do to do the job. You should also tell them what they might need to do the job. You’ll need to tell them that they’ll need their computer, router, instruction manual, and maybe an Ethernet cable to finish the job, just like when they set up a router in the first place.

There are some other things you need to do as well. You need to start at the beginning and work through the task step by step. Use bullet points to make it look like it’s a step-by-step process. Another way to connect the steps is to say “next,” “and then,” or “now.” In the beginning, bullet points might be the best choice because they keep things simple and avoid complicated grammatical structures that you might not know how to use.

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After you write, re-read each paragraph several times. As you do this, try to read each paragraph as if you were the reader, who doesn’t know what you’re writing about. There is a risk that you will make things too complicated because the task is so easy for you. Try to imagine that you’re doing it for the first time and tell the reader how to do it. Will the person reading this know what an Ethernet cable is, or what a router is, for that matter?

In some cases, you might want to repeat the instruction or ask the reader to check their progress so they can be sure they did what you said.

With longer articles, it is important to do this a lot so the reader doesn’t lose their place. Sum up what they’ve done so far, tell them what they should have already done, and ask them to check that everything is going as planned. Then, if a reader finds that the project doesn’t look like what you’ve said, they can go back and figure out what went wrong.

Work through your article this way, and you should be left with an easy-to-follow how-to that shows the reader how to do everything from start to finish. To make sure it’s written well and that the instructions are clear, read it again at least twice. In the end, write a paragraph that tells the reader how well they did.

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Finally, the title. This doesn’t have to be done at the end. There is no need to do this before you write the article, but you might come up with good headline ideas as you write your content, so you can do this. This can make or break the success or failure of your article, so be sure to spend some time on your title.

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Shimon Alon

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