Minimum Blog Article Length?

[Cam]

Hey guys!

What is the shortest an article on a real blog should be? Do you feel like there is a specific word count that can be used as a guide for this?

Is there a minimum length that always needs to be met when publishing articles on your blog?

 

[Belthazar]

I don’t really think so. On FP the general rule is 400 words, but that's not a standard. Plenty of articles have been published with under 400 words. I think the picture you draw in the article is way more important than the actual word count. I can write 1000 words of rambling, but 250 words on topic to the article is far more useful to the reader.

 

[Sharon]

I once read a blog post that was one sentence long. However it inspired me to write a detailed comment. I wish I remembered what it said. lol In my opinion it's all about the message. If you can deliver an intriguing message in a few sentences - awesome. I personally would rather encounter that than someone just on a rant about everything and everything with no structure to their thoughts. In the end, I believe it's about the message you are trying to get across and your delivery. Personally, I usually aim for 500 words in my posts however sometimes my articles are less and others are much more.

 

[randiv]

i think a good article have at least 400 words...

 

[Sharon]

i think a good article have at least 400 words...

I would have to agree that enough information/thoughts can be expressed in 400 words. Essentially a topic can be covered in 4 paragraphs. I believe 100 words per paragraph is plenty.

 

[alakazam]

I think around 500 words should be a good length for an article, in my opinion. That's the standard number of words I've seen on various content writing services.

 

[cwvps]

I think 300 words should be a minimum, but like previously said, word count is not the most important thing. A message, a way of saying something and information are what actually counts.

 

[Thomasss]

Well it really does depend on the article, honestly. For the most part, I think 400 words is a general guidelines for most articles, however it cannot simply be 400 words that make absolutely no sense, so you have to make sure you have enough content to actually write 400-500 words. You also have to think of Google, the longer the article is with enough unique content, the better the search results may be.

 

[Sharon]

Well it really does depend on the article, honestly. For the most part, I think 400 words is a general guidelines for most articles, however it cannot simply be 400 words that make absolutely no sense, so you have to make sure you have enough content to actually write 400-500 words. You also have to think of Google, the longer the article is with enough unique content, the better the search results may be.

You've made an excellent point here. It truly is about quality over quantity. In theory yes, the more words the more opportunity you have to include keywords to improve your SEO. ...however, if you're just being wordy in hope of reaching a minimum target and aren't really focused on the key words then you're not really doing anything productive at that point. I have read "articles" and felt like wow the title was a lot more interesting that the content itself!

 

[Thomasss]

You've made an excellent point here. It truly is about quality over quantity. In theory yes, the more words the more opportunity you have to include keywords to improve your SEO. ...however, if you're just being wordy in hope of reaching a minimum target and aren't really focused on the key words then you're not really doing anything productive at that point. I have read "articles" and felt like wow the title was a lot more interesting that the content itself!

Oh my gosh, yes. Sometimes I have just stumbled upon a post and went to go read it because the title was rather interesting, but reading the article itself was so plain and boring I felt like I was reading one of my English essays that I was just being wordy in just so I could get past the minimum word limit. :tearsofjoy:

 

[randiv]

Thanks for replying the valuable information.