How many words in a blog post?

Hey what is happening guys, it is the mid-week of the March hope you guys are doing well in during the month of hazy days, as usual drink more water. Alright this post is dedicated to readers who questions about how many words should be in a good blog post? This question has been wandering around since the starting of the popularity of the blogging trend and yet there are still people who had question about it due to a lot of factors like “Whether my blog is too long or too short, what if I only use images and video log? “

"Measuring the length of the content"

Not to mention about how search engine’s crawler such as google spider is going to crawl on our post for keywords? Search engine optimization (SEO)? How about user’s engagement perspective? Do I need to focus on user instead of how Google search engine works? Ultimately, is there a secret formula to archive good Google search result?

Well to be honest, there is no definite answer to the number of words length of a blog post or website should be. Therefore the question is not “How many words in a post?” but instead “How well is your content?”

Your content, is always your content

"I am going to express my thoughts through the keyboard!!"

The reason why most people set the standard of “500 words” is because they encourage bloggers or website owners to explain more on your content, increase user’s attention, if better enlighten them or even inspire them.

Detailed explanation on your content drives the interest of your reader and curiosity then hopefully they will keep on reading and emerge themselves into the topic of discussion or the content.

So in this case I would agree with one of Google’s guidelines: “Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines.” With this mindset, you only focus on questions such as “Did my post benefits users?”, “How am I going to make my readers understand easily and more?” so on and so forth.

Content structure and your focus

After you have your content, you will need to structure it for your reader to read and absorb it easily or to let reader “scan” through it for a quick grab of ideas of what you are saying. The basic structure of the content is consist of a main title, some subtitles and the explanation (Just like what I am doing now!).

However you may need to follow your blogging persona to really get a structure and focus for your blog post. Different blogging persona has their own way in structuring content. For example if your blog is about photography, then I believe images is your main focus, your blog will be filled with large scalable images and lots of thumbnails, so naturally you will have less content in terms of wording because a picture says a thousand words right?

BUT be sure to fill in the each photo’s TITLE text and ALT text for letting Google’s crawler easily grab the image’s description (in the web the read text not images so yea….).

On the other hand, if your blog is a tutorial type of blog, then you might be having some few images and bullet points as your summary in the end of the blog.

Good content, engaging readers, desirable traffic

Results in happy readers and you~

It is all making sense now right? Although there are some site who claims that great length of words promote pages to the first page of Google search result, yea I do agree that, but I prefer the importance of content that helps people in need or hunger for informations, I am sure that a good content with lesser word count will gain more popularity than a long post with the same word copy and paste to make a good word count. Here is how the world works for me: Help people in need, even though you do not need their help, the internet will be a better place. Peace out.