Jan 06 2009
Blogging and Education - How Many Words to USE
I stopped by Illarterate.co.uk today and saw an excellent Blog posting on “Concise Posting”. What a great topic!
The purpose of my Blog is to present information to an audience. I have chosen a niche area in the blogosphere that has a relatively small population. Small is a relative term of course. I am saying small compared to News based blogs, or Blogs that talk politics. I didn’t have a chance in that arena, so I stuck with two things I like and linked them together. Education and Technology
Regardless of the Blog topic, my purpose is to build a readership base and keep them coming back for more. Hopefully in the process I will build some collaboration. The Illarterate blog post was short and sweet. He stated that the average Blog reader stays on the page for 30 seconds. Talk about short attention span…wait, that is about how long my interest is kept as well.
He says make an interesting opening paragraph, keep the word count low and use good formatting to allow the reader to get the idea you are putting across. I am going to take this to heart. I write on Education issues. Academia LOVES long wordy papers. The Blogosphere abhors it.
I am in a quandary. I just finished up some classes in graduate school. How do you think I wrote my papers in those courses? The length of a Blog post is a very good topic for Education and Technology, especially when it deals with online work.
I am thinking that Maybe it is better to break up large thoughts into smaller snippets across multiple posts. SEO (Search Engine Optimization ) doesn’t like short posts, and one commenter on the Illarterate posting said 300 words is the minimum. I will do a bit more research on this, but for now here is my plan for my posts:
- Length = 300 Words
- Minimum of 1 Graphic
- Use Formatting (Bold, bullets, colors)
- Compelling First Paragraph
I will stick with these 4 points and will let you know how they work.
What do you think of my plan?
Send me links to what you consider a “Perfect” Blog posting.
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my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insght at the end there, not leave it with ‘we leave it to you to decide’.