As a blogger, you must have asked your editor many questions concerning how long your blog posts should be. Most times your editor tells you that it can be as long as it deems fit.
Well, your editor is not entirely wrong. You shouldn’t restrict yourself to a number of characters that are either too low or too high. However, most authority bloggers will signify a standard range or length to determine how long a post should be.
This mainly happens when you take certain factors (your audience, the topic, the post structure, and your basic marketing channel) into account.
I've published hundreds of posts and have carefully looked at my top accomplishing ones to know how the lengths of posts affected their success in all of these areas mentioned.
Continue reading to know how long your blog post should be in 2021.
The word count for a pillar page of 4,000 could be heart breaking. But for me, I think it depends on how you approach it. For such articles, I don't write them a day or at a sitting.
I would first break the topic down into sub topics and research materials. Next day I may do 1500voit of it, and attend to other projects.
That way I would have broken the task into some days while I am also achieving other tasks. So doing I won't be exhausted or board.
I hope this help somebody
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I always write a minimum of 1800 words and usually over 2000.
My wife is always complaining that they are very well written but way too long for the average person's attention span.
I tend to agree with her that the average person wants a much shorter post with just the basics or with all the most important info in a concise outline form. You can see this trend in Twitter and Tiktok, where there is a word limit and video time limit, respectively.
More and more people are trying to read these posts on the small screen of a smartphone, oftentimes in a hurry while trying to do multiple things at once. The next step will be to ditch the smartphones and adopt wearable technology, which will make it even more difficult to wade through lengthy articles.
We keep writing longer and longer posts to please Google but I think that is going in the wrong direction.
Frank
My blogs are always over 2,000 words, but now I have something to consider based on the type of blog I write.
Very nice of you to share this with us all.
We are glad you are a member here. You have a great background of experience to share with us all. We look forward to your blogs.
Thanks so much for sharing.
