Today, I'm gonna be very straightforward and boring, folks. Pardon me for the lack of deliciousness throughout the post and you will have to pour the gems. I'll let you decide though ;) Actually, I had another post coming and even scheduled to be published. But something terrible happened about a few hours ago - I CHANGED MY MIND!
Now, I have a real simple question ready for you ~ Does the length of a blog post matter?
Yes? No?
I don't know about you, but I can't recall reading a blog post which I can claim it's too short or long.
Considering the word count, I can recollect reading a post written under 300 words and over 3000 (As depicted by author) too. I was tremendously surprised how they did it fine without disappointing their readers.
You'd think, then I'm truly fortunate to come across only quality content and fantastic authors. Yeah, I did. But I've come across terrible writings I given up halfway too. Yet I failed to find a clue how the length of a blog post could gain or ruin the value. If you ask me, I don't consider word count in my writing unless it's a prerequisite.
You'd think, then I'm truly fortunate to come across only quality content and fantastic authors. Yeah, I did. But I've come across terrible writings I given up halfway too. Yet I failed to find a clue how the length of a blog post could gain or ruin the value. If you ask me, I don't consider word count in my writing unless it's a prerequisite.
What's the Fuss?
While my research online, I could have drown in hundreds of posts written on this topic based on the perspectives of different authors / group of authors. Even their experiments and public statistics contributed to their conclusions, and came up with minimum and maximum word counts too. Anyway, I could made only 22 posts and articles.
However, what's common I realized was that they were discussing the ratio between traffic over word count, not the quality over word count.
I know we have to go with what's measurable. But I was like,
"Once you were implying that quality content matters the most in blogging and again, suggesting we might need to compromise the quality considering the relationship between word count and traffic. Are bloggers suppose to write or count?".
I was wondering if they knew majority of Internet traffic is non-human. Is blogging just turning into a sole marketing tool, with the coated quality content?
However, what's common I realized was that they were discussing the ratio between traffic over word count, not the quality over word count.
I know we have to go with what's measurable. But I was like,
"Once you were implying that quality content matters the most in blogging and again, suggesting we might need to compromise the quality considering the relationship between word count and traffic. Are bloggers suppose to write or count?".
I was wondering if they knew majority of Internet traffic is non-human. Is blogging just turning into a sole marketing tool, with the coated quality content?
On to EXPERTS
Does the length of a blog post matter? I believe readers are the best to answer such a question, unless bloggers writing for themselves. Hence I'll leave this up to you to spill your gems.
Now, You are the EXPERT I count on here! ;)
Now, You are the EXPERT I count on here! ;)
