It is totally okay and according to many SERP tracking website analysis, Google highly ranks content with 2,000 words and up.

At least 80% of the content on my website is 2,000 words and more and I have no problems getting both high rankings and comment engagement.

There will be many so called experts that will say and believe that no one will want to read content with so many words. That may be true but if you create your content smartly, length will have no negative effect.

The majority of people who surf the net do not read all of your content, regardless if it is 2,000+ words or only 600 words. People like to skim through content, especially on a smartphone.

This is why it is vital that content makes use of Heading Tags and lots of white space. Both of these produce a better user experience and make it easier for your website visitors to digest your content.

So when you write content, especially long form 2,000+ words, use an H3 or H4 Heading Tag every 3 to 5 paragraphs and make your paragraphs short to provide plenty of white space.

Doing this will satisfy both the search engines that love to highly rank long form content and it will please the website visitor with content that is easy to read and skim through on a smartphone.

not that I am an expert but I write what naturally needs to be in the article,,,, I don't think about word count but they range anywhere from 800-2300 words depending on what I am talking about. I think my average is about 1200 words.

It takes me a long time to write an article,,,,, and even longer to edit it.,, is this normal or am i really slack at writing..

I am no expert, but I post 900 - 1400 words a blog (except my About Me page, lol), I feel that is good for the niche I am in. Just my input.

carl

According to Neil Patel 80% of blogs on Google page one are 2200+ words. So i try to aim for over 2200 words. I have blogs over 4000 words but make them engaging.

Well you ask what is the point and what are you try to achieve maybe you will bore people but maybe you will inspire people and just what is you aim ???
You can get traffic with good content which can be done in 750 words then you will have three blogs !!

Thanks for the information everyone. I'm getting close to doing my website and need to know these things.

the more the merrier!

Hi Marcel,

I try to aim for 1000 words. It "pleases" Google and it doesn't scare readers away from the site.

Hope this helps,

Luis

That's really a matter of opinion. SEO advise seems to suggest between 300 and 1200 words. There is also the question of whether or not someone is going to read a 2300 word post. Retaining traffic is important. SEO suggests writing for 5th graders. 2300 words may be just too much for some visitors. I try to stick to 700 to 1000.

Hi Marcel
That's a good question indeed, well I'm not by any means expert or have any experience but I saw a chart from serpIQ on a blog and it shows that content with average 2450 words got the best rankings.

Roddney is right...looked it up myself...yes, some work involved, Marcel...

I have four and cannot fix Ias I do not want to play around with codes!!!

Here is what you need to fix all of that stuff. This is a great course on this site and it will make your site faster and get rid of that blocking javascript annoyance. If Your Website Breaks

you can try some of WP Async plugins.Example: https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/async-javascript/

But be extra careful! This is the thing with what you could break your website. Everything depends on Theme what you are using.

gintsg makes good sense...it's rather like Goldie Locks -- not too little, not too much -- "just right" needs to be the measure...

As less you can get. Think about images and don't put there hi-res images. 1-2MB is optimal. 1MB is perfect. Think about from site speed perspective, as more mb have your page as slower it could be.

Thanks for the info.

In your edit post make sure you click on text first then paste .

First you'll need to upload it to YouTube then you can embed it in your post Embed YouTube Video in WordPress

While I haven't done it yet myself, I believe you first have to upload the video to either YouTube or Vimeo first. And then you can use their share code to embed it.

I clicked your post to see who has the answer, and Marion provided it. Now I know. Thanks for asking, Marcel.
Armand

It's something that I've only noticed in the last couple of days. Not live means no longer a premium member so no access to private messages.

i think it is one of the additions in the recent upgrade to find out the active accounts.
don't know the full parameters, kyle would be your man there but as bob says they have gone
phil

Marcel, Don't know. Should we have a funeral? Is there a way to e-mail a PM or copy it from some other source? Can't think of anything else.
Barbara

Speculation on my part:

Does the message appear after you've typed in the recipient's name?

Are you certain that your intended recipient is still an active WA member?