Don’t Sweat The Word Count

Hi Everyone,

I have posted this blog mainly for the newbies as I see the panic from some of you, and I know the feeling well.

Don’t Sweat the Word Count

When I first started writing my garden website my main concern was not how will I be able to build a website, though that was daunting enough, but where will I find a 1000 words for each new blog?

Every time I started writing I panicked, what if I don’t reach a 1000 words?

And I enjoy writing, I have always written things, poetry mostly.

But a 1000 words?

Scary stuff.

Many of you have probably wondered the same.

I see a lot of questions and cries for help here on WA about the word count from new members. (I still consider myself a newbie by the way.)

Well, all I can say is, take your time to write about what you know, write how you feel, research anything you don’t know enough about and the words will appear.

I have learnt some things that I found have made it easier for me to write naturally without worrying about the number of words.

Focus

Focus on your subject

Focus on your research of said subject

Focus on what your target audience need to know

Focus on what advice and guidance your target audience are searching for

Focus on the content, not the amount of content

“Focus” being the trending word here.

I find now that I can write my articles and the words come naturally and before I know it I have an article ready to publish, that is not only long enough for Google’s exacting high standards but one that will engage my readers.

Two of my blogs this week have reached, what is for me, the giddy heights of page one on each search engine, one of them only beaten to the #1 spot by BBC Gardeners World, who quite frankly could write gobbledegook and it would go straight to #1

Relax, be Happy

I’m happy with what I am achieving, I hope too that this blog may go some way to help some of you to stop worrying about word count and Focus on the better things instead. After all, we need to enjoy what we are doing right? Not be stressed out by it.

I wrote a blog today, sat out in my garden, relaxed and enjoying my day.

The words flowed easily...and so it goes.

All the Best

Louise