What is Content Writing? A Tutorial that helps you to Start your Content Writing Journey
When I started writing content for the web, I didn’t know that I would be a full-time content writer and make a living with content writing.
Every content writer’s journey is different from one another, but all of us have in common our passion for writing and reading; that’s what made us become good content writers.
Well, it is not compulsory to pursue content writing in the English language. You can start writing content in any language you are comfortable with and kick-start your content writing journey.
But if you are good with the English language, it would help you reach out to a broad audience if you pursue content writing in English.
First of all, let’s understand what content writing is…
Then I will tell you my story: How I became a Content Writer in the first place…
Content Writing:
Content Writing is a Process of Planning, Writing, Editing, and Organizing web content for the Purpose of Digital Marketing and providing informative, unique information to the users.
Content Writing Includes writing blog posts and articles for businesses and customers.
It also includes writing for Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, podcast, press release, Ebook, youtube video descriptions, script writing, etc.
Content Writing is One of the Digital assets that help individuals or businesses share their views and perspectives with the Online audience.
How I became a Content Writer:
My story is not that different, but yeah, it is something that will help you understand why passion for writing is important to becoming a content writer.
I was an average student when I graduated from the University, and as I recall, it was my dream to become a journalist from a very young age.
So when I graduated from the University, I applied for the Post Graduation Journalism program and got selected. And after that, my passion for writing helped me to make my way to becoming a content writer.
I got my first job in a local language newspaper and started writing in my local language; after that, I started writing for a local English newspaper, got my first freelance gig, and started doing freelance content writing.
And after getting good knowledge and experience in content writing, I started applying for full-time content writing jobs and got selected by an IT firm with a full-time content writing job.
I have been in this industry since 2019 and have written more than 1700 articles and blog posts, including topics such as Investment, traveling technology, and digital marketing.
My expertise is in digital marketing, Investment, and Writing.
Now, let’s go through how you can become a content writer with my easy-to-understand tutorial that will help you start your content writing journey.
A Tutorial that helps you to Start your Content Writing Journey:
Now that I have gave you a brief guide on content writing, let’s understand how you can start your content writing journey.
I assume you have a passion for writing if you are here because, without passion for writing, no one in this world can become a good content writer.
Content Writing Basics:
Chapter: 1 Develop a Habit of Writing every day
Chapter: 2 Improve the language of your writing by reading, listening, and speaking
Chapter: 3 Level up yourself by learning content writing from pros
Chapter: 4 Write for Your Audience
Chapter: 5 Master your Communication Skills
Chapter: 6 Learn about SEO
One Step Closer to become a Professional Content Writer:
Chapter: 1 Create a Blog
Chapter: 2 Publish your Writing pieces on your Blog
Chapter: 3 Master more than Two Niches
Chapter: 4 Optimize your Blog with SEO
Chapter: 5 Get Organic Traffic
Chapter: 6 Look out for Freelance Work
Become a Professional Content Writer:
Chapter: 1 Create an Impressive Portfolio
Chapter: 2 Create a Good Resume
Chapter: 3 Enhance your Personality Skills
Chapter: 4 Apply for Content Writing Jobs
Chapter: 5 Give Interviews
Chapter: 6 Don’t give up if you get Rejected; come back with leveling up your skills
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Content Writing Basics:
Chapter: 1 Develop a Habit of Writing Every day
You need to develop a habit of writing every day, which will help you to make your writing skills more better and strong.
Decide the particular timing to write every day. Keep 1 hour for your writing from your everyday routine and stay dedicated to this one hour for your writing practice.
Write anything you want to write; it could be anything. Let me help you with the topics so you can get started easily.
- Write about your everyday life. Keep a Journal
- Write about your passion and Goals
- Write about the Movie or Web series that you have recently watched
- Write about the book you have finished reading recently
- Write about your Friends
- Write About your thoughts on recent News
- Write your personal views about any controversies
Writing all this will help you develop a habit of writing and improve your skill.
Chapter: 2 Improve the language of your writing by reading, listening, and speaking
Now, Improve the language you are pursuing for content writing.
Content writing is performed in various languages on the web, but English content writing is the universal thing on the web since the majority of people all across the globe know the English language.
However,
No matter in which language you pursue content writing, you need to master that language and become good at it.
To enhance the language grasp, you need to read, listen and speak in that language more often to become good at language and improve your writing skills.
Read the fiction and non-fiction books in your content writing language.
Listen to podcasts and songs in your content writing language.
Speak to others in your content writing language.
Daily training with language will improve your writing voice, and it will help your readers to understand your message easily.
Remember,
Content Writing is not about using Big words and strong words but about using simple words in an Impressive Way.
Chapter: 3 Level up yourself by learning content writing from pros
There are plenty of great writers all across the globe that can help you learn more about content writing and level up yourself.
Well, here I am talking about Neil Patel, Brian Dean from Backlinko, Saheli Chatterji from freelance 101 Academy, Shreya Pattar, etc.
These people are dedicated content writers and digital marketing enthusiasts helping others like you and me to level up and learn professional content writing.
You can follow these pros on their social networks and learn how they manage to grow their small business with content writing into a Big one.
Also, there are plenty of free courses available on the internet and youtube from the pros of the content writing industry for you to learn more.
Chapter 4: Write for your audience
You need to learn to write for your audience because that’s what content writing is all about; if you have developed a writing habit for yourself, it is well and good.
But now, you have to keep the reader persona in your mind while writing so that you can satisfy the needs of your readers and give them what they want from you in pieces of your content.
Understand your audience and give them what they want from you. In return, you will get organic traffic that will help your blog posts or articles do wonders on the search engine web.
Once you master the art of writing for your audience, you can easily produce content that your readers will love.
Chapter: 5 Master your Communication Skills
No matter what job you do, communication skills are the important thing one needs to develop to get good results on the professional front.
And as a content writer, you need to master communication skills so that you can get and deliver the correct message to your coordinates.
You will be judged by how you talk for content writing jobs because they want to know and ensure that they have hired the correct guy for the job.
Mastering your communication skills will also help you make a clear voice of your own in your writing. Communicate with others in the same tone that you are using in your professional talks and master the art of communication.
Chapter: 6 Learn about SEO
As a content writer, you need to learn about SEO because that will help you get more exposure to this competitive market.
There are a lot of good writers publishing their pieces of writing on the web, but they couldn’t manage to get exposure from the web just because they are not putting their efforts into optimizing their content with SEO.
So, if you want to beat the market with content writing, you need to learn about SEO which will help you to cut down your competition and get exposure from readers.
Once you learn the art of SEO and Content Writing together, there will be no boundaries that will stop you from achieving success on the web as a content writer.
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One Step Closer to become a Professional Content Writer:
Chapter: 1 Create a Blog
Now, the first thing you will need to get started with content writing is to create a blog where you can publish all your quality writing pieces.
You can create a free blogging website with popular blogging platforms such as WordPress, Wix, Medium, Blogger, etc.
Decide your niche and make a logo for your website; try to make your free blogging website as professional as you can customize a good blog theme that matches your blog niche.
As a newbie content writer, you need to make sure that your free blogging website speaks for you to your audience, so customize your website with a good logo, blog theme, about section, etc.
Chapter: 2 Publish your Writing Pieces on your Blog
Ensure that you are creating a good blog with quality content writing because this is something that will help you get recognized in the industry as a content writer.
Try to impress readers with the quality writing in your blog and ensure you are giving them what they want from you in return.
Grow the audience on your free blogging website with quality content writing.
Publish each blog post with proper headlines, H1, H2, H3, H4, tags, and Highlight the important parts of your blog post.
Make sure to edit, proofread, and SEO optimized so that you can easily produce quality content for your readers.
Chapter: 3 Master More than Two Niches
As we know, content writing in this modern era has become so much competition, so it is important to master more than two niches as a content writer.
You can go for popular and demanding niches like technology, digital marketing, money and Investments, Writing, etc.
The health niche is also one of the best in the industry, but my advice to you is that if you are not from medical background choosing a health niche may cause trouble for you, so stick with the niches that you think you are good at and you can learn it.
One of the best advantages of mastering more than two niches is that you can learn so much about other industries while doing your job.
Chapter 4: Optimize your Blog with SEO
Now, you have to optimize your blog website with SEO to ensure you pass the link juice to all the other blog content on your free blogging website.
Optimize your blog with off-page SEO and on-page SEO to increase the domain authority and get traffic with link building.
Use Organic Keywords in your blogs to appear on the search engine result pages; keyword optimization will help you to make your content search engine friendly.
And the quality you provide in your content will help you to make your content user-friendly.
Chapter 5: Get Organic Traffic
Figure out what user’s are searching for and use keyword tools to find out which keyword is the most popular amongst the users.
Keyword tools will help you to find out search volume and SEO difficulty to rank on the search engine for that particular keyword.
The High search volume and low SEO difficulty keywords will help you rank higher on the search engine more efficiently.
Use social media platforms and SEO backlinking to get organic traffic for your free blogging website.
Chapter 6: Look out for Freelance work
You have to look out for freelance work now, but don’t go to the platforms like freelancer, Upwork, and other freelancing websites. Instead, go for the websites and businesses, contact them by email and ask for work.
You can get work here on the first day, but you have to keep pitching to these sites approach to 15 businesses daily, and eventually, you will get your ideal clients through these cold emails.
Now that you have gotten your ideal client do your job by providing your best so that your client can trust you, and provide you more work and recommend your services to others.
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Become a Professional Content Writer:
Chapter: 1 Create an Impressive Portfolio
You have to create a good portfolio that can impress anyone and make your quality writing impress the visitors.
Having an impressive portfolio helps you to make your own blogs/articles queue and attract clients and employers to hire you in the first place.
Add your social media links and contact email address in your portfolio so that employers can contact you easily and explore the quality content written by you.
Your portfolio speaks about your work, so make it Awesome.
Chapter 2: Create a Good Resume
As we all know, without a good resume, you can not impress employers by getting a personalized interview that helps you to get one step closer to getting a content writer job.
Make two resumes for yourself, one a professional resume and the other an infographic one, so you can impress employers with your advanced resume writing skills.
Add your personal information, education, and experience to your resume. As you are just starting, you can write about freelance work in your resume.
Make sure your resume conveys the right message to the employers.
Chapter 3: Enhance your Personality skills
Remember the Harvey specter’s quote from the suites:
“People respond to how we’re dressed, so like it or not, this is what you have to do.”
Firstly, you have to be well dressed and then you have to look good, confident, and professional.
Make sure you wear formals to the interview, communicate well, listen properly, and do what’s in your best interest.
Your personality can impress employers because they are not only looking for employees; they are also looking for discipline, well behavior, and confident individual that can give a good reputation to their company, So enhance your personality accordingly.
Chapter 4: Apply for content writing jobs
Now, apply for content writing jobs in the area that are more suitable for you.
You can apply for content writing jobs online with job apps and websites to find a good content writing job for you.
Apply for a job by using a good pitch email and adding your resume and cover letter to your email so that you can stand out against all other job application letters.
Apply to almost four different companies a day to higher your chances of getting selected in one of these companies.
Chapter 5: Give Interviews
Interviews are something where you have to give your best to impress the employers show confidence, and positively coordinate with employers.
Give them something that they can remember you about don’t just give an interview to get the job but give an interview to showcase your skills and explore more.
Give more interviews and gain experience in the corporate world by communicating with high authority professionals.
Don’t worry if you don’t get selected but make sure you learn your lessons from all the interviews you give in the first place.
Chapter 6: Don’t give up if you get Rejected; come back with leveling up your skills
If you do it precisely, you will get selected for content writing.
But don’t lose hope if you don’t get selected because it means you have to level up your skills and come back stronger.
And I know if you are here on my blog, you have that never give up attitude and warrior spirit so let’s conquer the world of content writing together by leveling up our skills.
Keep going!