[JohnPlace]

Some rules for making good content, in no particular order:

1) Competent writing skills: You don't have to be Hemingway, but the content should look professional.

2) Subject matter: Write something people want to read.

3) Completeness: Express a thought to completion, so your readers feel like they have absorbed a fully baked idea and not random musings (unless the article is a bits-and-pieces type format).

4) Value: write content that adds value to people's lives.

5) Originality: If your topic (or perspective) is already covered to completion on a hundred other Web Sites, what's the purpose of having it on yours?

These points aren't aimed at anything in particular, just a few of my musings regarding what makes good content.