There are no set rules for how long a blog post should be. The ideal length depends on the topic and how much words are needed to effectively convey the message. Generally, posts between 250-500 words are good for most topics. Entertainment blogs may be shorter while tutorials and reviews are often longer, around 800-1000 words. Search engines prefer longer, high-quality posts with enough content for bots to properly index the page. Overall, bloggers should focus on delivering valuable information to readers over strictly adhering to a word count.

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Actually, there are no any set of rules to how long a blog post should be or its words
count. Many beginners blogger asked this question often, how long should my blog
post count?
Blogging has few rules, it all depend on you and your blog. What you want from your
blogging career will determine the set of rules and discipline you will applied on your
blog. But, there are certain factors to take into consideration when suggesting the
ideal blog post word count for your content.
If it takes about 250 words to get your message across perfectly just the way you
want it, it’s okay. But, if you’re having it difficult to present your message with
anything less than 500 word count, then aim at that.
However, the best blog post word count is whatever the amount of words it takes
you to get your message across to your audience in the way they will digest and
understand it.
Long blog post or short blog post?
Entertainment bloggers will have nothing to worry about either the post is short or
long enough to fill the blog space.

2. They need to tell the story just the way it is. If it takes 200 word to tell the story, don’t
go about dragging it to make 500 word, you will lose the true picture in the story.
Bloggers who blog about breaking news, gist, websites that inform their audience
about new release of products and services will mostly have their post under short
word count.
Bloggers who blog about tips and tutorials, teachings, reviews, technical stuffs and
the likes will have most of their blog post written in long articles.
This blog fell under the blogging tips and tutorials blog niche, hence, most of my blog
post length about 800 – 1000 word count. Some articles are more than a thousand
word count. Though, you might want to break a post within that range in to series of
post that will make your visitors always check back to read more.
Google And Blog Post Word Count.
Search engine spiders have just about only one food to keep them alive and still
crawling your site and that is “content” enough of it on your blog post will keep them
busy and always wanting for more.
For proper indexing of your page by Google, you need to feed this spiders with
enough meat to feed on and to better understand what your articles are all about.
Generally speaking, long post with rich keyword are favored most in the search
engine result pages. Google have laid more emphasis on the importance of high
quality blog post and to really give quality not just some scrappy blog content, you
need to deliver your post in well detailed way.
There are benefits to having long post written, it makes it easier to include your
keyword and to have a good density to better structure the post for better experience
for your readers.
And also, your readers will see it in your blog content that you care about making
every effort to deliver the best on every blog post you made. Don’t get this twisted,
and compromise quality with quantity.
No, no matter how long or short your posts are, make sure you deliver quality over
quantity. And don’t go about using three words where one word will do. It doesn’t
have to be like that.
If you have something good and detailed to present your audience with, no matter
how long the post is they will read through. And you can help by breaking it down into
point or list post with sub-headings and short paragraph.
Lastly, I would conclude that it doesn’t really matter if a post is short or long and
shorter post doesn’t do bad in the search engine but, low quality content does.
Whatever you’re writing about make sure you deliver quality and not focusing on the
quantity of the content.

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