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How to Create Engaging Social Media Content

Content published or posted on social media should be interesting. Learn how to create engaging social media content for better traffic. 

Understand Your Target Audience

The important factor to be considered while writing social media content is the target audience. Who are the users that will read your contents? Which regions are they located? What age group do they belong to?  If your target audience is teenagers, then you should write the content based on that. You cannot write the same content for an elderly audience of age group above 60.

Depending on your audience, you have to design your contents. For example, if your audience is movie freaks, then you should write interesting movie reviews along with captivating pictures.

Also, if your audience is  Interior-design enthusiasts, then they might be interested about architecture, modern interior design techniques etc. So, you should choose contents based on the target audience.

Add More Variety to Your Content

Whenever you are going to write a blog, Facebook posts or Tweets, you should try to be original and write quality content based on end audience. Never copy contents from any other website and always try to be creative.

The vocabulary and keywords are very important. Try to make paragraphs, add bullet points, pictures, slide shows, videos and other hypermedia to ensure your content is not boring for the audience.

Use variety of contents like pictures, articles, videos which are relevant to the topic to make it interesting for the audience. Suppose if you are writing a blog about your travel experience and if your blog is just filled with just paragraphs of text without any pictures, it would definitely not captivate the minds of target users.

Try to add more media and images along with text to make your blog more attractive.

Write Content Relevant to the Topic

Whenever you are going to write content on a new topic, make sure that your content is genuine and totally relevant to the topic you have chosen. Try to include as many keywords relevant to the topic as possible so that your website gets listed top among search engines.

Keywords are very important for Search Engine Optimization and for higher ranking by search engines. This will also help you get more visitors to the site.

So, write fresh content relevant to topic and add new sources, images and videos to your posts. Also, your content should be recent and not outdated informative. Make sure you provide the latest information to your audience. Controversial topics can also divert some users, so you should be careful about it.

Adding Comments from Users

In order to make your social media content engaging, you should give options for users to comment on the topics that you have written. You should integrate discussions and reviews about your content so that it’s more engaging for the audience.

By getting feedback and appreciation from other users, you can make your contents more credible. It can help you gain automatic connections and more audience. You can add tweets, Facebook posts and comments from users to get more followers.

Choosing the Right Format and Style

The writing style and format is very important. Use subheadings, bullets, keywords and paragraphs whenever necessary. Choose the right format and make sure your content is precise and readable. Consider yourself as target audience and proof read the contents once before uploading it to your website.

Authenticity and originality of content are very important. Be yourself and do not copy any contents from already existing website. Use captive headlines and allow users to comment and give feedback about your contents. Keep your content simple and make sure your message is delivered correctly.

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Prashant Sharma: <a title="About" href="http://www.techpluto.com/about-us/">Prashant Sharma</a> is a Delhi based Entrepreneur who spent most of his college days polishing his marketing skills and went for his first business venture at 19. Having tasted failure in his entrepreneurial debut, he turned a Tech-enthusiast, specializing in web technologies later. Join him on <a href="https://plus.google.com/110037121732872055442/?rel=author">Google Plus</a>
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