420 - Always Worth Noting
So, blog update on my progress is that I now have 420 followers and 420 is always worth noting given my niche!
I also just passed 420 words written - that's 42000 words - and am on track to crack 50k before month end. I wont reach 12 articles in the Super Affiliate Challenge, but my word count will be high.
Would appreciate anyone leaving thoughts on length of article vs number of articles. Seems that my shorter articles are the last to be indexed by Google. Other people's experience?
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Write as much as it takes to get your point across. Provide good explanation and examples. Also, remember that comments will also help to 'lengthen' the overall content.
Few months down the road, you may across an idea and go back to the article to beef up the content.
It seems Google values quantity when it comes to indexing, and while I can see how this has come about, it concerns me in one way, because unless a lengthy article is quality, all of it, it's just words filling space and what's the point of that?
~Mark
Google certainly values quantity, but it also favors long tail keywords, so I think thats a part of how Google brings quality into their indexing. In fact its long tail keyword searching that is helping me write longer articles.
I find it interesting that shorter articles index later. There maybe a mindthink that it's lazy and that a longer post has more quality. I think the WA algorithm has been skewed that way as well!
Could be Mike. Kyle has mentioned establishing authority with our sites and I believe that longer articles are a part of that.
The majority of my posts are around 1500 words. However If the post is finished its finished. No one wants to read waffle just to get the word count up.
For me the reader is more important than Google. I get most of my traffic through Pinterest anyway.
However I do have a lot of my posts indexed too.
With Grace and Gratitude
Karen
Thanks for your comment Karen. Im going to be checking out Pinterest now that Facebook is in decline.
Its posts that are in or around 1000 words that seem to be slow off the mark. I hear you about a post being finished when its finished. Thats exactly how I feel when Im in the midst of writing, so I am always surprised that I can return to an article and it can be "more finished" with more writing. Im trying to get used to that idea.
Hi, Karen. I’m just starting to get my feet wet with Pinterest. I like it more than Facebook but I haven’t gotten very deep into it yet.
Grant
A friend of mine that has been in marketing for 30 years says that people don’t often have time or concentration to read long documents?
You say shorter posts are last to index?
Interesting to see how members comment.
Wayne
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I think authority can be established not only by long articles but by shorter, more succinct articles. What matters is getting the point across.
You have to keep in mind that publishing more often is going to help your website in the long run. Google certainly favors quantity. That being said, I have failed to do so, as the articles I have written take a lot of research and the technical terms need an explanation to my readers.
I had an "aha" moment this week that should help with that. Shorter, friendlier articles about my own experiences.
Awesome, I've started doing some editorial style pieces and am working on one now but Im the same, dense writing that needs some explanation. I should bite the bullet and just try to push myself toward more quantity.
I'm a perfectionist, so I know how it is to have a hard time publishing what you write. I have two articles that by all rights should have been published weeks ago. I have found little to change in them. I'm just having a hard time with images on one and the other I am waiting to see if a company, which sells electronic equipment for migraines that require prescriptions, will allow me to use one of their images (so no affiliate program, but they will soon be approved without a prescription, so the relationship is worth the trouble).
I have resolved to publish both of them this week regardless. I had planned to last week, but I had two family emergencies, an appointment for my younger son, and the sinus infection I have been trying to stay ahead of since I had the fu finally caught up with me. I'm sure if my oncologist hadn't increased my IVIg that I get every four weeks, it would have caught up a lot sooner and have been a lot worse.
I also plan to start writing from my own experience this week. What it's like to be a mom with kids in all kinds of activities and cope with a migraine, what it's like to have to deal with a migraine when away from home (on vacations, etc.), and that sort of thing. Try from the heart and suggest products I can speak about with little research.
I have a review that I need to finish the storyboard on. Hopefully, my husband can help me get it on tape next weekend. He's a television engineer. We both have lots of television and video training. That's how we first met. he stuck with it. I moved on to other things a long time ago. luckily, storyboarding is still pretty much the same process it always was.
I've written a book here. I guess I'm putting off going to bed to put off getting up early tomorrow morning. My youngest has two basketball games tomorrow morning. We have to be there by 8:30 for warm-ups.
I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend and have an awesome week!
Anita