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How to improve your writing: Part 2
Note: here’s the link to the first part of this series
neets.me
I gave neets some generalized and simplified writing tips in my previous post. I stated earlier that the more text there is, the fewer readers there are. It sounds really smart, but I lied – it’s not always true, to be honest. Although I think that the tips in that post are good and that there are lots of writers who will find them useful, it should be made clear that the tips I gave are for writers who wish not to bore out their readers. You shouldn’t follow them always and everywhere. In this post, I will explain why that is.
The search for information
Where do people go when they have questions they want to be answered? Do they consult the old wise sage, the priest, the librarian, Encyclopedia Britannia, the dictionary? No, they go to the search engine of their choice. The most used search engine in the western world is Google, in China it’s Baidu, in Japan it’s Yahoo!, and in South Korea, it’s Naver – although the propaganda teams of Google and Amazon are trying to make the Western people think otherwise.
https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/KR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naver
https://www.quora.com/As-of-now-do-Koreans-use-Google-or-Naver-more
Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence
“So what?”, you might ask. “What’s the point of talking about search engines in a post that is about improving your writing and about writing in general?”. Well here’s the thing, mate, and let this gigantic black pill sink in. Google does not rank websites based on the quality of the writing. The algorithm just analyzes the text and the artificial intelligence tries to figure out what the page is about. And this algorithm – “the artificial intelligence” – is not what we mean when we call a person intelligent.
Humans vs computers
See, humans and computers value information differently. We, humans, know that it’s possible to do and say more with fewer words. We even have an idiom for it: less is more. But the computers, Google’s “artificial intelligence” seems to think that long posts contain more information than short posts – and it’s true if you ignore the fact that we humans get easily tired because we’re not some robots or computers that can work endlessly. When we think about information, we don’t think about megabytes or gigabytes, unless we're talking about the nerds.
Be Boring
When you ask people if they would like to read text that does not go straight to the point or text that goes straight to the point (well articulated), they would always choose the latter, I believe. This goes against the conventional wisdom English teachers, copywriters, and those who teach people how to write text for human consumption swear their lives on; that short, precise, and well-articulated text is better than long text – text that most people would find boring.
It’s not that the AI powering Google search engine thinks that long posts are better than short posts. Long posts just contain more keywords and words the people looking for quick answers to their questions can type in the search box. You might wonder if there are lots of people who abuse this “vulnerability” in Google’s algorithm. Well, the short answer is yes. The long answer is yes, absolutely, without a doubt.
Literature: Essays, Books, Blog Articles
So why do our English teachers and writing coaches ask us to be precise and to avoid writing too much if that’s what writers should do to please Google’s algorithm? Because they don’t do anything else than read and write essays after essays – and they teach ambitious people how to write prose and poetry. If they knew how to write prose that ranks well on the search engines, they wouldn’t be teachers. They would get strokes if they knew that people who aren’t precise and don’t seem to value good writing earn more money than those who try to be as precise as possible and those who articulate their thoughts and ideas with care. The teachers know everything about writing for humans, and nothing about writing for robots and the stupid “artificial intelligence”.
Thoughts About Writing Essays
So here you have it. I hope that you’re blackpilled about writing after reading this post. This post resembles a typical article you’ll find on thousands of blogs Google shows in the SERP (Search Engine Result Pages), and let's be real, it’s horrible. DO NOT WRITE LIKE THIS TO PEOPLE. This post could be MUCH MUCH shorter, but it isn’t.
I’ve found out that writing long posts can take less time than writing a short post. The reason why this is the case is that trying to fit all my complex ideas, thoughts, and insights requires more mental energy than writing a post as stupid and long as this.
Conclusion
I stand behind the tips I gave in my last post about becoming a better writer. You will improve your text if you follow my instructions. You can think it like this: the last post was about writing for humans, and this post is about writing for search engines. This is stuff you don’t hear about your English teacher because they are clueless when it comes to writing for blogs etc.
Note: here’s the link to the first part of this series
Note: here’s the link to the first part of this series
Do This to Improve Your Writing!
Do This to Improve Your Writing! Few people like to read essays online or in real life. Experienced writers know this. It's why they keep their sentences and paragraphs short. People don't like to read. People who know grammar can fail to produce good text. They make their sentences and...
neets.me
I gave neets some generalized and simplified writing tips in my previous post. I stated earlier that the more text there is, the fewer readers there are. It sounds really smart, but I lied – it’s not always true, to be honest. Although I think that the tips in that post are good and that there are lots of writers who will find them useful, it should be made clear that the tips I gave are for writers who wish not to bore out their readers. You shouldn’t follow them always and everywhere. In this post, I will explain why that is.
The search for information
Where do people go when they have questions they want to be answered? Do they consult the old wise sage, the priest, the librarian, Encyclopedia Britannia, the dictionary? No, they go to the search engine of their choice. The most used search engine in the western world is Google, in China it’s Baidu, in Japan it’s Yahoo!, and in South Korea, it’s Naver – although the propaganda teams of Google and Amazon are trying to make the Western people think otherwise.
https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/KR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naver
https://www.quora.com/As-of-now-do-Koreans-use-Google-or-Naver-more
Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence
“So what?”, you might ask. “What’s the point of talking about search engines in a post that is about improving your writing and about writing in general?”. Well here’s the thing, mate, and let this gigantic black pill sink in. Google does not rank websites based on the quality of the writing. The algorithm just analyzes the text and the artificial intelligence tries to figure out what the page is about. And this algorithm – “the artificial intelligence” – is not what we mean when we call a person intelligent.
Humans vs computers
See, humans and computers value information differently. We, humans, know that it’s possible to do and say more with fewer words. We even have an idiom for it: less is more. But the computers, Google’s “artificial intelligence” seems to think that long posts contain more information than short posts – and it’s true if you ignore the fact that we humans get easily tired because we’re not some robots or computers that can work endlessly. When we think about information, we don’t think about megabytes or gigabytes, unless we're talking about the nerds.
Be Boring
When you ask people if they would like to read text that does not go straight to the point or text that goes straight to the point (well articulated), they would always choose the latter, I believe. This goes against the conventional wisdom English teachers, copywriters, and those who teach people how to write text for human consumption swear their lives on; that short, precise, and well-articulated text is better than long text – text that most people would find boring.
It’s not that the AI powering Google search engine thinks that long posts are better than short posts. Long posts just contain more keywords and words the people looking for quick answers to their questions can type in the search box. You might wonder if there are lots of people who abuse this “vulnerability” in Google’s algorithm. Well, the short answer is yes. The long answer is yes, absolutely, without a doubt.
Literature: Essays, Books, Blog Articles
So why do our English teachers and writing coaches ask us to be precise and to avoid writing too much if that’s what writers should do to please Google’s algorithm? Because they don’t do anything else than read and write essays after essays – and they teach ambitious people how to write prose and poetry. If they knew how to write prose that ranks well on the search engines, they wouldn’t be teachers. They would get strokes if they knew that people who aren’t precise and don’t seem to value good writing earn more money than those who try to be as precise as possible and those who articulate their thoughts and ideas with care. The teachers know everything about writing for humans, and nothing about writing for robots and the stupid “artificial intelligence”.
Thoughts About Writing Essays
So here you have it. I hope that you’re blackpilled about writing after reading this post. This post resembles a typical article you’ll find on thousands of blogs Google shows in the SERP (Search Engine Result Pages), and let's be real, it’s horrible. DO NOT WRITE LIKE THIS TO PEOPLE. This post could be MUCH MUCH shorter, but it isn’t.
I’ve found out that writing long posts can take less time than writing a short post. The reason why this is the case is that trying to fit all my complex ideas, thoughts, and insights requires more mental energy than writing a post as stupid and long as this.
Conclusion
I stand behind the tips I gave in my last post about becoming a better writer. You will improve your text if you follow my instructions. You can think it like this: the last post was about writing for humans, and this post is about writing for search engines. This is stuff you don’t hear about your English teacher because they are clueless when it comes to writing for blogs etc.
Note: here’s the link to the first part of this series
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