[Mika]

What determines the quality of an article?
Search engine ranking
Traffic
Social engagements
What else?

[Netherrealmer]

Readability, Yoast score, Tags and links. That is in case of wordpress.

In case of forumcoin, Tutorials are highly prioritized now.

[Mika]

Well said, but what about the articles that ranks #1 on goole, do you consider them quality articles? How about the viral content, do you label them quality articles?

[Netherrealmer]

Being viral doesn't equate to quality, there are trash articles that got viral because of either how awful they are or how good is their seo.

[arunima]

The content, expression and the engaging style of writing are more important for me to be a quality article.

[Mika]

The content, expression and the engaging style of writing are more important for me to be a quality article.

Do you think poularity equals to quality?

[Netherrealmer]

The content, expression and the engaging style of writing are more important for me to be a quality article.

Do you think poularity equals to quality?

In the eyes of sponsors maybe.It can ruin the reputation of the writer if it got viral for the wrong reasons though.

[bestwriter]

Articles that attract viewers because of their content - perhaps knowledge based. Getting ranks has nothing to do with quality

[ranamal]

Tutorials, How to,, airtcles are good to attract visitors they are best to keeping visitors visiting again to our site or blogs and rated good in seo

[arunima]

The content, expression and the engaging style of writing are more important for me to be a quality article.

Do you think poularity equals to quality?

I would not agree with that. A popular article need not be a quality article and vice versa. I have often found good-quality articles on the second or third page of Google search. That means that they are not popular and have not been highly ranked in search engines but their quality is far better than those that top the search engine ranking.

[Mika]

If you do not think popular articles are quality articles, why do you think people strive to be in the top position on the search engines?

[Netherrealmer]

People never learn, I am still seeing people making articles not based from technology, Business and tutorials. They should not expect to be monetized.

[Mika]

It really surprises me to see people expecting to make money from the content that does not have searchable element. They publish personal stories and yet expect to make a lot of money.

[Nurudeenyusuf]

The only thing that determine the quality of an article is it's uniqueness. If you write the article yourself definitely it will be of quality and free from any form plagiarism that can affect your website or content

[crestcapital]

The contents and the value it added to the potential visitors

[Netherrealmer]

It really surprises me to see people expecting to make money from the content that does not have searchable element. They publish personal stories and yet expect to make a lot of money.

Someone made a homophobic article here in forumcoin and expects it to be monetized. It got deleted by admins in seconds. Then there are people who makes articles about topics That Fergal has not been asking for

[Mika]

There is a difference in writing articles for the internet and newspapers. Articles on the internet need to have search value. If the topic of articles do not get searched on the internet, there is no point in publishing.

[sethbala11]

For an article to be deemed to quality I think it should be one that is easily understood ,the message is clear and one that answers your question

[Mika]

In your opinion, how important is SEO in determining the quality of your articles?

[Netherrealmer]

SEO is possible with websites with tag options like wordpress, We cant do that in forum coin because we don't have Yoasts and tagging option. Mylot discussions actually appears in search engines because they have tag options.