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.

writingBut 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.


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35 thoughts on “Techniques for Writing Short Articles on your Blog”

  4. 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..
    .-= David´s last blog ..Twitter Link Round Up 10/1 =-.

    1. Ya, that”s why I wrote that Link Love and Monthly Roundup Articles are very popular and also very useful for the readers too.

    1. 500 words article is descent amount of words in an article but make sure you have properly written all things on the subject.

    1. 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..

  9. 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!
    .-= Klaus @ TechPatio´s last blog ..Usenet Access Discontinued For Verizon And AT&T – Best Usenet Server Recommendation =-.

    1. 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 😉

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