Is your blog too busy?
Are you telling them too much?
- This runs contrary to everything you hear from Google!
- Everyone tells you to write more - who reads it?
- Tell the truth - do you really read a 2,000 word blog?
- Does your blog help people? What's the purpose?
Are you answering questions no one is asking?
- Sgt Joe Friday said it well: "Just the facts ma'am!"
- Bottom line - what are you saying?
- Use "bullet points" to drive your points home.
- Instead of writing a 1,000 word blog, how about 5 200 word blogs?
- Fresh fish it -"fresh fish for sale here today."
- How many words can you take out of that? All of them!
- Aww... Deal with it!
- Unfriend me - don't read my blogs - you know I'm telling the truth!
Let me close with a quote from John Maxwell:
"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others."
Where do you fit in?
Joe
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It's a moose loose in the caboose world Joe.
Fact is no-one reads long form on a screen, we tend to scan, and many of us are good at it.
We read bits and bobs and then make up the inbetweens.
If we were search engines the internet would be a totally different landscape.
Unfortunately we are not so long form it is.
Then again the plain English movement is gathering momentum.
Just say enough to get that message across, using the language your audience speaks, and understands.
Alex
It's not so much about the length of the blog as it is that you are offering something people can use that will solve a problem. If you are offering an A.I. solution and you're blog is short and informational people are bound to read more than say a blog of you talking about a product and how it's so great and you have to buy it in 1500 words.
I absolutely agree with the point but I always made a content with almost 2,000 words per posts and mostly more than 2,000 for what I know is about being indexed and a possibly be ranked in the number one. Anyway, that will still depend maybe upon the value of the post but for my side I didn't see the benefit of it yet to my website, I'm struggling on how to bring traffic for it, so for long or short posts I don't see the difference yet. Thanks Joe for sharing this blog to us.
I know I am bucking the tide, however, you have to do what works for you. For me, short works best. I want people to read my 1,000 word post... not skip my 2,000 words!
Joe
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Good food for thought Joe.
Good bloggers should only write about others, If does make sense to write about other who have something relevant to the article they are writing. Since we have an About Me page on our websites, visitors can decided if they want to read that or not.
The best thing for bloggers is to share and discuss ideas. That is what I aim to do.
Regarding article length, it is a good idea to summarize what the article is about in say 200 words, If the reader is interested to find out more then they will read more of the article.
Also, it is a good idea to vary the word count on each article.
We are taught here what not to do.Lime write in large blocks of words. By spacing the paragraphs our, much like how you do it, readers will find it easier to continue reading,
The only negative issue is Google rewards those who write long articles. That forces us to use the form that we are taught here to keep the reader engaged.
Thanks for a thought provoking article Joe. And I feel certain I wrote more than 200 words. I am not going to count the number of words though.
Cheers.
Edwin
Edwin, right on all points! Google has us trapped in their algorithm. We just gotta do what we gotta do!
Thanks.
Joe