1000+ word Site Posts
Ok so I am having a hard time making it to 1000+ words per post for my site blog posts. I know that the training said not to overthink my writing but I don't want to start hurting my site if I can't at least meet this criteria. Any suggestions?
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From experience, Google prefers long-form content when you're promoting an overall topic or medium-to-high-competition keywords, for low hanging fruit Jaaxy keywords with less than 90 results on Google for whatever phrase you're after, a post of 500-751 words will do. If you ever get tired of writing, you can always outsource that to people who curate content for a living, or you can quote experts and paste their work on your site as long as you paste their content in italics and with quotes around it and put the Source and their name or whatever at the end.
By doing it this way you're showing Google that you're not plagiarizing the content, but rather are "meeting the requirements" to show them Relevancy for the keywords you're after, by Sourcing external content that is still relevant to the keywords and you're being honest by citing the Source and italicizing it to show that it's not part of your original work.
Doing any of these things can take a HUGE writing burden off your shoulders. Never be afraid to Source Wikipedia, either. Good stuff!
Hi there,
Writing 1000+ words articles on a regular basis can certainly be overwhelming. What I've found helpful sometimes is to pretend I'm explaining the subject at hand to a friend that is really interested in what I have to say.
What makes writing so difficult is in part due to the fact that we have no feedback (visual or verbal) while we write (other than our own). And since we can be our own worst critic, it can help to pretend. If nothing else, give it a try, who knows maybe it works for you as well:)
Another idea about writing is to just sit down and write. Don't worry about what or how you write. Then go back over what you have done and make changes and corrections. Following this process over and over can get you to 1000 + before you know it.
Good luck, hang in there and don't give up!
That was very helpful advice Scandi. Thanks. I am immobilized most of the time because I share this problem with Dman (and many others I’m sure)
If you are having a difficult time, don't over think it. Celebrate what you are accomplishing. Then move on to the next post that you have more stuff to talk about.
The more you practice writing, the better you will get. The more you do it and the more you learn about affiliate marketing, your posts will naturally start getting longer.
At some point in the future, you might decide to come back and update some of your early posts.
The important thing is to try to make the process as enjoyable as possible. Otherwise, you will give up.
Best wishes
Thank you! I certainly don't want to give up and more importantly I can't afford to. And it's not necessarily I don't find it enjoyable just was struggling to add enough content to my posts that was giving me problems.
I will keep practicing!
Take a pause and read similar posts about that topic. It will start Your brain to think again. If that doesnt help, take a 15 minute walk.
You dont need to go exactly for 1000 words, 800 is okay. I think that You should focus a little bit more on what value You are giving to audience. But if You want Your posts to be 1000+ words, than go easy on Yourself. Save draft and forget about it. Come back later and continue.
Ranking will be better if You research better short and long keywords and use them as much as You can ( dont go to much on repeating Yourself ), so if Your post have 675 words with great targeted keywords... You get the point.
All the best!
Thank you for your insight. I usually do take a min or two when I get stuck before going back to it. It helps sometimes but other times it makes me feel a little more frustrated and like I am being neglectful.
Minute or 2 will make no difference. For that 2 minutes You are focused about "not to think about Your block in writing" so after 2 minutes You are blocked again.
You should try with a 30 minutes walk, or clean Your house, do Your dishes, get a shower. Make Your body to do something so that Your mind can be focused on "space-oriented and eye-body movement" things. It will make You focused mentaly, so that Your creativity can recharge.
it works for me. Let me know if it works for You.
Try finding things that are related to what your writing about to add to the post. My niche is travel and tourism within Japan. I was writing about one of japan's gardens and was going to be short. A festival is held withing the gardens to I touched on that to reach my word count.
Cool thanks!
Off topic: I've always been interested in Japanese culture, so I think you writing about travel and tourism in Japan is awesome!
It depends on the topic.
Several of my posts are beyond 3000 and I'm scared that the readers don't have the patience to finish them.
Usually, it happens when I review a complex financial application - all the features, history, pricing, owners, pros and cons, my thoughts...
In general, just keep doing.
The writing feels much easier for me after 20 posts.
Imagine what happens after 200?
Thank you for your insight! I find this comment a little humorous because if I was talking I do about the same thing, but writing seems so different to me.
Hey Daniel,
I suggest you do not overthink this. Just keep writing and if you think you've covered everything else that needs to be included in the article, it doesn't matter whether you have 1000 words or less.
I have posts within the 300-500 words, 501-1000 and above the 1000 word count and they are getting ranked by Google.
I'm trying not to overthink it but I also want to make my posts successful. Cool thing was I did get ranked today in google for my site so I guess it's not as bad as I thought.
Still, I want to make sure I am giving good, quality content.
Thank you for your encouragement!
When I started my posts were shorter too. Now it is easier to write longer posts. I would say don't worry about it too much. Just write posts. Some can be shorter, some can be longer. They don't all have to the same length. It will probably become easier for you to write longer posts when you have some practice and come up with more ideas for what to cover in them.
Keep in mind you can and should go back and edit old posts. So, just write them now and you can go back and add extra length later when you have more ideas! This is actually recommended since it shows you are engaged in your site to update the old ones.
Jessica
Thank you, I didn't really consider editing old posts, so that gives me a little peace of mind. Again thank you for the insight!
Typically I hit right around 1000 or go over. I brainstorm with Jaxxy different phrases of my keyword and use alphabet soup to think of about 5 topics to discuss in my keyword. Then I use those as headers, write about 2 paragraphs each topic and have a conclusion with a call to action.
At times I have also just started writing in WORD with no obvious breakdown of headers. Then I copy it in and reformat it to check my word count.
I've found that providing 'examples' or another way of explaining what you're trying to teach can help create additional paragraphs.
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Dan I have set my own Templates and you could do the same - what I do is Type all my "skeleton" out first - as Kyle did but add in more headings and smaller subheadings - about two each under each main heading. I then make a mental estimation that each heading will have 50-100 words under each subheading, something like this:
Title
Into - (150 words)
heading A - (5-10 words)
subheading1 -(100 words)
subheading 2 - (100 words)
heading B - (5-10 words)
subheading1- (100 words)
subgeading2 - (100 words)
heading C - (5-10 words)
subheading1 - (100 words)
subheading2 - (100 words)
heading D - (5-10 words)
subheading1 - (100 words)
subheading2 - (100 words)
heading E - (5-10 words)
subheading1 - (100 words)
subheading2 - (100 words)
heading F - (5-10 words)
subheading1 - (100 words)
subheading2 - (100 words)
Conclusion - (150 words)
These are what I call 'bite-sized' amounts that are much easier to chew on and reach.
In total if you reach each max the amount of words should be about 1560.
Sometimes, I just right the title and all the headings, and then start my research before I even write - this gives me at least my 'skeleton' - before I flesh it out.
Help this helps :)
Okay, you win. I thought my reply was rockin but this, well this is just mind-blowing and brilliant and I hope it's okay for me to copy, because I did, and I promise to honor this information. Thank you!
Hahha! I am all about sharing here, whatever has helped me; I offer anyone else. I always think of strategy when I do things that can make things easier for myself.
I am ADHD and slightly dyslexic - people think I am a perfectionist or clever - but I am not. They won't believe that I will not publish, anything until I am really satisfied, and that I myself, understand what I have written. This could take more than a day.
Even my simple comments here, I check over and over until I can justify giving to someone else :) Just re-edited it three times now.
I have always struggled with learning, because I see patterns that others don't. I had taught myself to re-strategise what teachers have taught, so that it is easier for myself. The simpler the better...
...thats why I structure everything and cut it to 'bite-sized' morsels, because, as an ADHD - I can start on something and get totally side tracked because I think too fast, this makes me lose a whole day, by just researching Jaaxy or socialising here lol.
Hence, if someone asks a question here, I try to first of all think of how I approach it for myself, if you sort of get what I mean.
Hey, if you want to use it in a training then by all means, go for it and claim it. I am a newbie and not allowed to do any, so if you can help others NOW, do not wait for me :) PLEASE! so many are struggling with writing it saddens me.
Ilaisaane (Saane for short)
Not to throw a curve ball at ya, but what you listed out here is worth gold. I would’ve paid for that kind of information, and others I’m sure exist that are like me and would see what you posted as valuable. Consider selling little how to templates, could be an avenue for promoting that and WA to a hungry audience. You got me hooked!
Aww, yeah, sure like I am only over a month and have no idea how to sell anything, just following the training, but maybe you can show me some tips, by PMing me...however, please share it for others if you think it is gold...I probably have other stuff I can rummage out of my brain - I do have a template day planner for bites sizes lol - does that count too?
I’m just saying, you’re good at giving people value and that’s something to consider because I know that there’s a huge hungry audience of advanced marketers who have gotten away from templates which helped us all get to where we are, and I think the way you lead into the giveaway and then gave the goods was spectacular marketing, IMO
Okay a deal, i might write an e-book then, but, when I know how and collect my stuff for it...thank you for mentoring and supporting :)
This is a great piece of advice as I am struggling with writing as well and is really time-consuming for myself as well. I have been stuck for a few days now and researching blogging all over the place trying to improve. All I have learned thus far is "Keep writing and it will get better"
I have another question while I'm here; How to switch from bold to paragraph while writing within "Site Content" It comes out bold, but will not switch back to the paragraph with a click.
Help from anyone would be greatly appreciated!
Hi Ken - it is a little different from using word because you cannot format in to different styles, but 'p' is for normal - so you just highlight the section for paragraph and click on 'P'
H3 = small headings
H2 = Main Headings
H1 = Bigger (never used this size - only stick to the other 2 heading sizes.
:)
The other way I do it, is to copy and paste what I just listed at the top (template) on to word document in my PC and do everything there and then copy paste each section once I have done each paragraph into Site Content. That way your words are counted and you know how much more you want to write or not.
I would leave images until 'site content' once I have all my text/words in.
Let me know if you want me to clarify what I just said lol
Hey Snazzy, I think I got it figured. Pretty basic computer skills here but with a little direction from everyone they are improving. My problem is I keep trying on my own with trial and error, Very time consuming and really slowing my training down. Today I've learned I can get great advice fast right here within the WA community. Lesson learned!!##.
Many thanks, Snazzy
Enjoy your day:)
That's awesome to know :) thanks