Techniques for Writing Short Articles on your Blog
How much information is enough in an article? How much is too much? And, most importantly, how much information is optimal?
Writing short article have many benefits for you and the readers. Some of the advantages are like:
- It makes you maintain a high level of interest and frequency of articles.
- They are easy to write and read i.e time consumption is less.
- It gives you a psychological break from writing long articles.
- You do not feel obliged to add extra things.
- They are much more focused, and goes straight to the point.
But to make a Short Article Successful is really a tough thing if you don’t have much experience in doing so thing. Here are some ideas which will make you able to write some quick but meaningful short articles:
1.Inviting Comments Technique
If you have good amount of readers who are willing to leave comments on your blog, then this can be a great technique to create short articles. For example, you can start some Mini-Polls in which you can ask the readers about their opinion on your question.
The interesting benefit of such articles, is that it makes readers feel they are participating in the blog.The only problem is you can not do this too often. It is also essential that you have many readers who are willing to leave comments, otherwise this technique will not succeed.
2.Link Love Technique
This technique is very easy and used by many bloggers which is a good thing. Each week you can collect your favorite blogs and pages you’ve visited and put them up as a list in a article. This article is relatively easy to do.
Having such articles could be very useful for you and your readers. An additional advantage is, of course, that other webmasters and blogger to whom you have linked to will love that.
3.Quote of the Day or Week Technique
Never underestimate the desire of people for short quotations with essence.The quotes of the day or week are also popular on web. For example, once a week you can give “The best blogging tips of the week“. Do not feel compelled to always having to make a top 10 or top 5 in such articles.
Blogging Tip of the Week Example:
“Don’t focus on having a great blog. Focus on producing a blog that’s great for your readers”
4.Video Article Technique
People love watching videos equally to reading articles. The videos are a great way to add quality content, with minimal effort. You can upload Videos in your article and at the end place some question for the readers to fire up the things little bit.
The videos is not necessary should be yours; you can use videos of other people or bloggers and ask certain questions on it. Make sure that you are giving proper credits to the Video Owner in your post.
5.Linking your Best Article Technique
This is also a very popular technique used by bloggers. Each Month you can create an article Linking to your Articles for that month with small summary or blurb of each article. It can really prove very useful if someone missed reading one of your article.
What Should You Do?
So, should your blog have concise or in-depth content? Here is what I have to say:
- If you want to increase readers, focus on short and searchable content. This is a good strategy for advertising-driven sites or sites that sell impulse buys.
- If you want people who really need a solution, focus on comprehensive coverage. This is a good strategy if you sell highly targeted solutions to complicated problems.
But Hey! Do not just rely on short articles.
As I said at the starting of this article, short articles have many advantages, but if you just go on publishing short articles, then your blog will lack a real substance that need your readers .e Long nad Highly Informative Articles.
Short articles will be most effective when combining them with one longer significant items. If you have written many of these long articles, you will undoubtedly benefit from taking a short break with a few short articles.
If you have any other ideas for creating successful short articles, please leave a comment to let us know.
Article written by Typhoon
Yo! I am Typhoon a.k.a Sushant, a 17 yrs. old blogger from India and the owner of SmartBloggerz. Here I try to share useful Blogging related articles which would help a blogger to succeed. You can connect to me on Twitter.Typhoon has written 332 superb article(s) on this blog
October 5, 2009
3:49 pm
great post sushant, i really got to know how to make an effective short post. Especially for a person like me who has very less time and is also a bit born lazzy. Thanks for the post
Regards,
Vishal Sanjay
http://www.dumblittleblogger.blogspot.com
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October 5, 2009
6:41 pm
Hey very impressive article and useful. This will be very handy specially when there is no time or little time to write big articles..
October 6, 2009
8:41 pm
Thanks Harsh..Now you would be able to write more post on your blog daily.. Isn’t it?
October 5, 2009
6:46 pm
i am not really in the favour of Short articles. that tell readers that a blogger is not fully committed to his blog and the readers. once in a month will do but not more than that.
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October 5, 2009
6:47 pm
Short articles are a great life saver especially when you forget to write out a more detailed post or forgot to post at all.
Some short articles I’ve used in the past is a roundup of sorts of funny everyday things. Makes for a great quick and easy read and also puts a smile on someones face..
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October 6, 2009
8:40 pm
Ya, that”s why I wrote that Link Love and Monthly Roundup Articles are very popular and also very useful for the readers too.
October 5, 2009
11:45 pm
Thanks for the tips sushant, I think long or short articles doesnt matter as long as they convey whatever you want to say…
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October 6, 2009
8:38 pm
Nice to know your positive opinion
October 6, 2009
12:06 am
I prefer posts of 500 words, but sometimes when your in lack of time you should be able to produce a effective short post. Thats interesting and helps people.
Nice post.
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October 6, 2009
8:38 pm
500 words article is descent amount of words in an article but make sure you have properly written all things on the subject.
October 6, 2009
12:46 am
Writing short useful post is a good way of maintaining a blog. Offer quality content probably short but useful is the key!
Thanks for the tips!
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October 6, 2009
8:36 pm
Welcome Biodun..I hope you will share this article on your webmaster forum
October 6, 2009
2:17 am
This is a great post. I like the idea of short articles. I know myself, I don’t like to read a long involved post. Also really like the idea of a tip of the week. Good job.
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October 6, 2009
8:34 pm
Thanks Margaret…Ya sometime I also feel lazy reading a veryyy long post so I quickly scroll the mouse and read some main points of it..
October 6, 2009
3:32 am
It’s important to find the right “ratio” between short and long posts. I think I read once that blog posts should usually be between 200 and 600 words because the attention span of most internet users is very short.
But it depends on your industry I guess. If your focus is on producing “fast news articles” then very short posts are great. But if you’re into extensive tutorials etc., short posts are probably a bad idea
This was a great post though – also the length!
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October 6, 2009
8:33 pm
And you know what, articles between 200-600 words are considered to be short articles which I read at one place.
Well, this article was 709 words long so it can’t be considered a short article
October 6, 2009
7:02 am
Nice tips Sushant. I would try to apply this on my writing articles activities…
Thank you very much..
Sincerely,
Felix Albutra – Earn Money At Home
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October 6, 2009
8:24 pm
Good Luck in writing short articles and hope you save time which you can use in promoting your new blog.
October 6, 2009
7:08 am
nice tips.. i really need this .. because it’s great if we know how to create a short post to save our time when we have lot of blog to post
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October 6, 2009
8:23 pm
Ya, the time saved by writing short articles should be used properly like you should market you blog, comment on blogs and participate in forums etc.
October 6, 2009
8:07 am
The quickest way to post a comments is to add movie or pictures into the post. It will immediatly fill lots of space in the post and even if you type less, the post wouldn’t look empty.
October 6, 2009
8:35 am
Hello. At first, I was skeptical about this article, because I personally don’t like to read many short articles. Of course, if an article is too long, I sometimes won’t read it unless it’s by someone that I know will hold my attention and isn’t going to be long winded. However, I really agree with what you have to say here. When someone only posts short articles, it comes across as lazy to me. If I wrote 200 – 500 words every article, I could EASILY post them multiple times a day.
However, short articles have their place. For one thing, you should never write more than what is necessary to get your point across in the way that you want to, and sometimes, it takes fewer words to express a thought. Another thing, sometimes, people just don’t want to read a lot of words. They want you to get to the point, you know?
Another way to shorten your articles is if you notice that your article is coming out longer than you had hoped, try finding a way to split it into two or more articles. Maybe you can make the topic more specific, and have a “part two” or something.
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October 6, 2009
8:03 pm
Ya, Splitting article and to make it publish as series is also a really good thing and it also creates excitement in readers for reading out the next part if they liked the first one.
October 6, 2009
1:09 pm
okay. I always try to make an article in short..but sometimes it doesn’t enough to explain the topic. Your articles are very inspired me…thanks.
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October 6, 2009
7:53 pm
Glad to see that the article has inspired you to create short articles easily and effectively.
October 6, 2009
2:11 pm
Hey your techniques are seeming very effective. Doing well to share such worthy tips.
October 6, 2009
7:50 pm
Thanks harri..Hope you will be able to utilize the techniques in a good way on your blog..
October 7, 2009
4:32 am
i am heading to do short posts soon, thanks for the good tips Typhoon!
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October 7, 2009
12:20 pm
I have e-book titled “100 Quotes for life”, so i can make it become 100 post on next 100 days? So interesting
Thanks for the tips, thyphoon
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October 7, 2009
2:53 pm
That’s good but don’t post 1 quote per day in an article..If you can manage try to explain the meaning which is coming out of the quotes and ask some questions at the end to make it look good.
Or you can make an article every week with 5 quotes in each and ask readers which one they like and why…There are many more things you can do with it..
October 8, 2009
6:23 am
I have always found that substituting in text for pictures, has shown to make the post look long, however, in reality if you look at the word counter, it is really low!
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October 20, 2009
5:36 pm
Short or long articles the point is to get backlinks and have traffic to make any money at all.But videos can make a blog only more interesting!
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December 7, 2009
5:47 pm
i have not written short articles yet… these tips are informative. Will it be effective using Quote of the day and video technique ? While using video technique is it necessary to describe few details about the video content?
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