In previous post I have discussed the "Article Pathway".If you dont know what article pathway is just read my article-How to Write articles??-Part-1.In this post I will tell you in detail about Step-1 of article pathway, i.e,How to select topic for your articles?

Writing articles start with the selection of topic.Most of the blogs/websites will tell you two methods of selecting a topic.These are-

• Select a topic in which you are interested. or,


• Select a topic in which people are interested.

But both these methods have some disadvantages.The first method has a disadvantage that people might not be interested in a subject/topic in which you are interested.Thus, you might not get the traffic you have desired.

The second method will take away the charm of writing as you may not be interested in a topic in which people are interested.

Furthermore,writing without charm will also hamper your skills of writing as your disgust will be mirrored in your article.

What I am going to tell you is a middleway between both these methods.Read on the next few paragraphs as I will disclose the right way of selecting a topic.

Prior to selecting a topic make sure that whatever topic you are selecting is related to the theme of your blog or website.After that proceed in following manner-

• Select a topic in which you are interested and not in which people are interested.This is because selecting a topic of your interest doesn't kills the charm of writing and also helps because you have basic ideas about that topic of interest.

• Once you have selected a topic of your choice just go in some forums and look what questions people are asking about that particular topic.

Let me take an example.Suppose you are interested in Tourist Places in India and decide to write about some tourist spots in India.So,go into travel forums and look whether people are interested in historical places or hill-stations or sea beaches.If you are able to pin point what people are looking for in that particular topic of your then half your work is done.Just answer the questions people are asking in your article.

This way you are able to select a topic of your choice and also make sure you are giving answers to questions people were looking for on the topic you have selected.This ends my post on selection of topic.

In the next post I have told you about right approach to research (Step-2 of article pathway and part 3 of this Series).You might have read how important it is to research for writing articles.

But nobody tells a good method of researching.I will tell you the complete methodology of researching so that you are able to write good articles with plenty of informative content.

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