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The Bottom Line Remember: you are writing for web readers.

Web writing is vastly different than traditional publishing. There are things a writer may do in web writing that are not practiced when writing for print.

For instance, short paragraphs work far better than long ones in web writing. In traditional media, long paragraphs work best but an Internet reader better digests information in short spurts.

So, keep you paragraphs short and to the point.

Stay on topic about your review.

Offer the reader all he or she may learn through your experience with a product.

Another aspect of web writing is the ability to include site link information in your review. By adding a link or two to your review, the reader may peruse other avenues of your subject. Even when links are not live, readers still have the option to cut and paste the offered link into another browser.

When the links are live, it greatly increases "link pop" or "link popularity", an important web feature in search engine ranking. Remember this for your own web sites.

To add one more tip, consider this: a newsletter link. If you write a great deal at Epinions, consider putting the link info for a personal newsletter on your site. Readers may cut and paste that code directly into a browser and join your personal newsletter update. And you will receive subscriber names that may be utilized for all your sites' updates.

If you want to learn more about effective web writing, visit my homepage, http://www.webwriternews.com, which is dedicated to writers of all genres.

And write on!