What’s In, Long blog posts or Short blog posts?

October 12, 2009 by Chris  
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If you are going to ask me this question, I will say it had be both as the publicity of your blog or your written words gets determined by the matter you write and not the length of the posts. Remember, those essays in high school, where we really struggled to meet those 300 words instructions to be written and how we nearly bought along different ideas in the essay just to make it look longer. But the blog scenario is completely different, if you have straight point then you can finish your blog in as much half words then the actual original article. The end point here is to interest your readers, no matter the words or paragraphs or bullets you be using – your posts must be up to date and with the matter inside that sounds really interesting.

Gone are the days, when people nearly didn’t had any option, so they used to go through whatever blogs given to them but today with the help of professional content writers, you can produce a perfect blog up to the mark without going helter-skelter. As much as you make your blog interesting and attractive to your users, they are not going to oppose the amount of words and paragraphs you have given. Have you wondered sometimes, even if you are not an avid reader how did you go on and on reading that whole article in a newspaper, magazines or a fiction edition, the reason being that it interested you and created anxiety in you to go ahead and have detailed knowledge of the same. Getting bored is not the reason here to be given if you cannot read the whole passage; it simply means it is not worth reading. Nothing or no one gets you bored if you are really keen on reading ahead or doing something, isn’t it?

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There are a couple of writers whom I know personally, I wouldn’t want to offend them but yeah they definitely doesn’t know when to shut up their big mouth, they just go on and on and on till the extent that users finally get disinterested in reading ahead, especially given the size of material and some smarter ones will directly browse through the last few pages or paragraphs to know the climax, now this is not the thing you want your users to do with your blog, do you? I know seriously the answer may be no, so how can we really make your blog interesting, no matter given its size or the number of words. Many popular blogging networks have professional team of content writers and sometimes the content does elongate to whole 2 or more pages but still they manage to get good number of diggs and tweets after all blogging is all about money.

Making sense to your written words really makes your blog go rocking, its just not any other essay you are told to

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write in a school and for god’s sake if you are posting it in some very popular blog, its going to be read by millions of users worldwide. If you keep examining the number of words you write, the length of your blog, its just not really going to help you, you have get your point in front of your audience and if you have razor sharp tongue then you can cut the cake in just first 2 or 3 paragraphs. But not all content writers are gifted with such quality nor do there are so much experienced to posses those skills so the best you can do is try to truncate as much unwanted waste in your blog as possible and bring forward the stuff you really want to portray to your audience.

A blogger may be trying to put forward one idea but he may have to use so many examples, a scenario, a dialogue to let the audiences know as to what exactly he is trying to say, so much of the space gets consumed in that, so use your brains and get forward the best with actual stuff although going hay wire here and there in your text is necessary sometimes, don’t forget to come back to the same text you were actually discussing. We well know, that blog doesn’t grow in one day’s time, it needs years to flourish and get the top position in market and that happens only if you are clearly and strongly dedicated to your blog, so get your points clear now and blog to get the best returns!



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11 Responses to “What’s In, Long blog posts or Short blog posts?”

  1. Tech-Freak Stuff on October 13th, 2009 7:07 am

    I thin, It all depends on the way the article is written! If it is a story or your experience, then it will appear good as a long post in paragraphs.

    But if it is a “How to” article then Point wise or Step wise content is expected even if it is Long or Short!
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  2. Klaus @ TechPatio on October 13th, 2009 7:56 am

    For some writers it just happens naturally to be funny/interesting to read – the rest of us will have to work hard to become like that and some of us might never reach it :)

    But the good news is (I hope) – there’s always *somebody* out there that will find your writing interesting.
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  3. Salman on October 13th, 2009 8:27 am

    Its true I agree we can finish the article in half words of the original article if we write the straight point
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  4. Diabetis on October 13th, 2009 8:51 am

    I believe that it depends on what type of readers you have. some people enjoys reading long post while others get bored at reading them.
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  5. chandan on October 13th, 2009 9:22 am

    I have listen somewhere that google weight on long post with valuable content.
    But most important factor is what I want to say with our blog post or reader like the post or not. I always try to write for my reader rather than search engine.
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  6. Cath Lawson on October 13th, 2009 4:21 pm

    LOL Chris – some of my posts go on to long. Often, I have to wind up splitting them into two or three different posts. I used to try to alternate between long and short posts – I need to keep remembering to do that.

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  7. David Shaw on October 14th, 2009 9:34 am

    I think that as long as a long post is engaging then it is not a problem!

    I don’t enjoy reading long posts that don’t make me think!
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  8. Travel on October 14th, 2009 11:52 pm

    I buy listen finally that google supervision on wanting post not tell salutary content.But surpassingly capital ingredient is what I wanting to convey take cover our blog upright or tutor drink in the pillar or not. I always striving to formulate as my lecturer tolerably than reconnoitre tool.

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  9. Ms. Freeman on October 16th, 2009 12:54 pm

    I very rarely read or write long blog posts. I lose focus and interest abut half way through.

    :)
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  10. Pascal on October 19th, 2009 7:49 pm

    Blog post author should write content in a interesting way. At the same time, it should be short not too long, say less than 300 words. Otherwise people finds another page before completing the read.
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  11. Tekshek on October 20th, 2009 5:38 am

    I think the short posts are better than long post
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