Article Marketers and Article Authors Argue Over Article Lengths

Article Marketers and Article Authors Argue Over Article Lengths
By Lance Winslow

Many article writers just do not understand that Internet Surfers do not wish to read long articles, they like short sound bytes. In fact maybe this is good for those who have websites who place these articles on their sites because no one will bother to read this boring bunk and therefore are more likely to leave; hopefully by way of a Pay-Per-Click Advertisement. Smart article authors if they want any worthy targeted traffic at all will make their articles under 400 words and preferably under 300 to insure internet users read them thru and click on their by-line.

For the past year and a half I have written 8822 articles and put them online and recently I have decreased my word counts of my articles to the 300 word average range and guess what I have increased my article pickups to 31,600 and am now on pace to clear 35,000 pick-ups within 2 months. But why is this? Well simple because Ezines, websites and even those built for the sole purpose of AdSense like the shorter articles.

Occasionally we here complaints by some article authors who say that any article under 300 words is a joke and cannot be called a real article? Well this is an interesting comment because most articles on the major news media outlets 300 words or less. Does this mean that articles on MSN.com, Google News and Yahoo News are not articles? Sure they are and if they are not, well what are they called then?

If we look at most Ezines, which come into our email boxes the trend surely is for shorter articles not longer ones, because we all know those do not get read all the way thru generally. With over 2.5 Million Article views it is obvious to me that shorter articles are in and the long articles truly do not do the article authors justice or help them achieve target traffic numbers like I am getting on my site. Consider this in 2006.

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