How Long are your Blog Articles?

I've been blogging a lot more recently, and have been doing no more than 250-300 words per post. These types of posts seem to be the most popular, as they've been gaining a lot more views and readers can quickly skim the contents.

So my question is, what is the average length of blog posts you guys write on your blogs? Any noticeable success for articles longer or shorter?

 

300 to 500 is acceptable. After 500 spiders may choke. If it needs to be more than 500 words consider using a second page.

250 - 300 is completely acceptable. Keep it at that and done worry

 

When The posts are something, That is not a review, Mine will be as like yours, Running between 250-300 And when it comes to some product reviews, well, It goes like 500+ :|
Coz, In reviews, i have to explain each and every point of view to the thing.
Thanks.

 

I use 300-500 words,
for me
+500 is for detailed articles..., maybe tutorial or something that reader will follow it until end.

 

After reading that lot (which I agree with), only thing I could think off is: just writing product review post after product review post after product review post…

 

My blog post are anywhere from 200 words - 800 words. I used to make post in the 1,000 - 1,500 range, but they take a long time to write. So instead of writing a single 1,200 word blog post, I'll break it into 2 post of around 600 words.

Last year I made some really long blog post, say in the 1,500 - 2,000 word range which included several images. Then I watched my google webmaster tools to see how much traffic the post got. On my site - an article with around 1,800 words that took almost 4 hours to write, got no more traffic then a 600 word article that took 20 minutes to write.

After watching how many hits the different size articles got, I try to stay in the 800 word or less range.

 

It all depend on what kind of blog are you running right now. If you running a blog with very narrow and specific niche, let's say you are blogging about bike tire, you would want to consider to have a review-like posting that will be enough with around 500 words.

 

You guys are over thinking things waaayyy too much. Write for your readers, not spiders.
Sure, practice sound SEO , but getting into counting words, as if, you are being graded by a professor is just too much nit picking.

Your articles should be how ever long they need to be to get the point across and provide the needed information. If that's 200 or 800, just worry about what's in the article, not the number of words in it.

Yes you should edit your articles, but for content, not word count.

So what do you do if you decide that every article should be 500 words, and you have a post that only takes 200 words to get the point across? What do you do? Add in a bunch of worthless filler and keywords for the spiders? That's just ridiculous.
Every blog is different. Some blogs provide detailed information and need to be thorough and some don't.

Sometimes I get press releases for major events that have a lot of information about tickets, artist line ups, schedules and so forth...do you think I'm going to edit those just to get within 500 words? and screw my readers out of getting the info that they came for?

Stop counting words and worry about writing good, informative, original articles. Spiders don't click adds, provide back links, or buy products..so they are my last concern.

 

it depends on article and what I'm writing.

average 400-500 words.

too long post will make visitors feel bore and leave.

but too short post, visitors will think no points, so between 300-500 words is optimum.

 

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this piece of sense. The question originally asked is a bit like 'how long is a piece of string?'

 

I agree, I don't tailor my blog post size, the size of my blog post will change depending on the demand of the subject matter.

 

300-500 are best because no one likes to read a lot of information at once. Keep your content in paragraphs and to the point with some elaboration.

 

Aim for around 400 - 500, except it really depends on how much you need to say. Just don't bore your audience

 

It also depends on the topic. But 250 - 300 words is good enough to discuss some good topics.

 

I aim for 400 word post. But the big G does like large pages. Sometimes if I really want to rank a post I do a 800 word one.