Comments on: Sometimes Not Enough Is Still Too Much

By: Blake Waddill

Blake Waddill — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:35:47 +0000

You are totally right. It’s not about the number of words, it’s all about the topic. I hope it didn’t seem like that was what I was saying.

The main idea of my post was sometimes you don’t have to go into painful detail or wild tangents; if you do, be sure to separate it up some, so people short on time can scan the post.

By: Suresh K

Suresh K — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:56:36 +0000

Number of words is not a big issue while writing post. we need to covey the information what we are trying to say in our blog post.. if you have some new information the number of words wont affect the your readers…
thank for the nice article..

By: Blake Waddill

Blake Waddill — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:46:48 +0000

It is definitely all about the niche. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say most of the history audience likes to read enough that they’ll take their time to read longer posts.

People who are into tech tend to try to crunch as much stuff into their schedule in the smallest amount of time.

Maybe tech people should learn a lesson from the history crowd, sit back, and enjoy life instead of rushing through it. :)

By: Blake Waddill

Blake Waddill — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:43:06 +0000

Talk about taking it to the extreme :)

By: Blake Waddill

Blake Waddill — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:42:18 +0000

You are absolutely right about the “good post” part. When people want to comment, but don’t want to read the wall of text, that’s the default.

Like you said, heading are a great way to make the post feel shorter. Copyblogger is a great example of how long posts can feel short because of great header use.

At the end of the day though, if someone don’t have time to finish reading a long post, the value of the post is lost.

By: Blake Waddill

Blake Waddill — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:33:31 +0000

Yeah, Twitter is a great example that it doesn’t take much to get across a huge message.

By: Gabe | freebloghelp.com

Gabe | freebloghelp.com — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:00:19 +0000

I have a handful of posts in that 1000 word range but the majority of my posts are under 500.

In the event there’s a large topic, it’s usually better to break them up in chunks anyway (like my three part series on brand identity).

By: Janestic

Janestic — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:09:16 +0000

Thanks for remingding.
My blog will become short.

By: Rohit Sane

Rohit Sane — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:20:36 +0000

Thanks for the reminder! I know that people get bored of reading long pages, So I have started using topic headings. But I don’t feel that people are interested in reading even those, when they come up with comments like “Good Post”, “Thanks for the tips”, etc..

By: J. Money

J. Money — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:27:05 +0000

Haha, love this bro. It’s a good thing we’ve got Twitter going on eh? ;)