Benefits of Content Writing

Priyanjali Handa
4 min readJan 12, 2021

Content can be referred as the king of the blog, or for that matter, any website in the world. Content which is attractive will find thousands or maybe millions of followers. Without it, one cannot perform any digital marketing processes on any website. Thus, creating content is of great importance.

Other benefits associated with creating content is, one can make a lot of money by understanding only some basic details or event nothing about digital marketing. Blogs, websites, newspapers, magazines, ecommerce portals and myriad other sources of information require content.

In brief, content is information and this information leads to the thought that generates into emotions and culminates as action.

Having said that, listed below are some of the benefits of content writing as a career in today’s time.

Digital Marketing Becomes Easier

If you own a blog and learn content writing, it’s possible to become very rich as well as famous. Most of the famous bloggers in India that have a wide following learned content writing. That’s because millions of people around the world appreciate their writing.

Content writing helps in saving lots of money you would otherwise have to pay others to get articles for your blog or website as you can create your own content. Also, digital marketing processes become a lot easier when the art of content writing is learnt. For example, you can easily find a niche that suits your hobbies or profession to create a blog and present your opinions and experiences through it.

Digital marketing teaches how to look for specific keywords and phrases that have the highest number of searches worldwide or at some location. Content writing helps in blending these keywords and phrases into the article.

For example, if you’re learning digital marketing, one of the things you’ll learn is on-page Search Engine Optimization (SEO) which is necessary to increase the quality and reach of the blog.

Creativity Comes from Content Writing

When you learn content writing, you’re also learning how to be creative. When writing, it is important to maintain the interest of the readers throughout the article. It is a skill that’s extremely useful for bloggers. Google and other search engines have something known as ‘bounce rates, which means, if a visitor to your content leaves almost immediately without reading the article fully, Google counts it as a ‘bounce’. Hence, your blog or website starts losing ranking.

Creative writing helps to put interesting facts and figures and create content in a manner that the reader feels happy to read your article completely. When they like the article, they comment on it and these comments are useful since they send up your Google rankings.

Helps in Defining the Brand’s Voice

Whether you know it or not, every business has a voice. And if you’ve put no time or resources into your content writing, there might be a chance that yours is fairly inconsistent.

One of the best things about deploying great content writing is that it gives the business a voice in the world. This could be via regular blog posts, or even something as simple as social media updates, using different social media platforms, but whatever the case, your company’s tone of voice will offer a sense of consistency to your brand and make customers engage more readily with it

Improves Vocabulary

Another benefit of content writing is seen from the fact that it helps improve your vocabulary.

It is not about using high language that would make a reader search for a dictionary. Instead, using proper vocabulary means explaining something in the simplest possible language to the widest possible audience.

As we write again and again, it helps in getting familiar to new words and also improving our writing skills. We tend to read more and create more content!

Acquiring Research Skills

Learning content writing means you’re also learning how to research into various topics. For writing the content, it is obvious you’ll look for the best available information. Hence, you’ll go through several websites to find correct and verifiable information for your article.

That’s because content writing teaches you to be responsible. Every content writer is responsible for the article and people that read the content. Therefore, you’ll look for information only from the most credible sources.

This extensive research would also help in increasing the general knowledge of an individual. As you learn newer things every day, it’s also easy to find topics for fresh content that would be appreciated by the audience.

Wrap up!

Content writing is also very useful to create Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media posts to promote your website or blog. Therefore, it is very important to learn content writing for several reasons.

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Priyanjali Handa

Priyanjali Handa, a young journalist pursuing BJMC, has a keen interest in exploring new ideas and writing about them!