How Long Should A Blog Post Be?
The long old debate of how long a blog post should be, eh?
There are no limits on how long your blog posts can be, varying from 100 words to 500 words and sometimes even 1000 words.
Bloggers have the power to write long or short posts now days. If you feel like writing long posts you can do it’s all up to you or if you feel like writing short posts you can do that to.
Most bloggers do feel that long posts are better than short posts, because they have more information in the posts, but that doesn’t always have to be true.
Here are some ways to look at this situation.
1. Reader Attention Span
It is well known that most web readers have a very short attention span when reading posts. Most visitors like to scan your content and not fully read your content in detail. They rather prefer short posts that are quality rather than long posts.
When I’m visiting a blog I mostly always scan the content first and if the content is eye catching I will read the full post.
2. Time is money
Everyone wants as much time to do the things they love, right? You could be going out, watching TV, going to work, doing personal stuff. By writing short posts you save time to do other things you like as it will take you less time than writing long posts.
Reader’s also don’t have all the time in the world. Maybe there in a hurry, but still want to read a quick short blog post before they go to work.
3. Quantity of posts
This is the most important aspect of a blog, because you need to find the right time on when to post the right content. You will need to learn not to post everything in 1 post, but instead spread your content and posts. Until you start getting some decent traffic or regular readers try keeping your best and in depth post for later.
When writing short posts it allows you to generally write more posts and write more often on your blog. Because the posts aren’t so long you still have ideas left and can use those ideas to write some new posts.
When you write longer posts, you always give out as much information possible to the readers, don’t forget that you can run out of ideas, because you’ve already told them everything you wanted to say.
Conclusion
I always prefer to write posts that have minimum 250 words. I’m not picking any side as i personally feel that long and short posts have their own benefits. You will need to find out what works best for you.Whether it’s a 100 word post or 500 word post. always make sure the content is useful for the reader.
So guys, how long are your blog post?
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September 17th, 2009 at 15:22
There is no limit for the length of a blog post, it can be long and it can be short post. It depends on how well you know on the topic of the post. In fact, not much people love to read long post, so usually I will keep the post length within 500 words.
Regards,
Lee
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October 11th, 2009 at 05:18
Though content quality is high, readers don’t involve in reading a post which contains more than 300 words. It’s human natural. So always it should be 200 to 300 words.
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December 5th, 2009 at 16:09
I think every day 1 unique content is enough.
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