Article Marketing and Article Lengths; The 250 Word Article Debate

by Lance Winslow

Many article marketers wish to know how long to make their articles in order to get the most bang for your buck or the most targeted traffic. One of the debates is over the true value of the 250-word article. First are they of value to the reader? If so, then how well do they pull in traffic for the article marketer and get clicks on their byline for further interest? And do smaller articles get as much traffic and high ratings in the search engines as 750 word articles?

Well apparently studies show the 250-word articles do get good traffic and the 750 word articles get a little more over time. On the 250 word articles it appears to be close and if someone wrote a 750-word article and it out performs a 250 word article that makes sense over time. But with (3) 250 word articles to (1) 750 word article the (3) Swarm past the (1).

In my estimations many of the articles I originally wrote with 900, 1500, 2000, 2500 or more have lots of traffic consistently, whereas some of the smaller articles 275 to 325 range died out around 350-450 article views over time. However, even those with 350-450 article views they still get some traffic and when I multiply those by 3 it seems that they are pull better than articles three times as much. Why do I care? Well this is article number 9282 and if one is going to spend 18-months writing that many articles, well one needs to know how to do it best. So, please consider all this in 2006.

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