It depends on what I’m writing about. I find that most of my posts usually end up between 300 and 500 words per post.

I try to keep my posts as short and to the point as I can, as I know how frustrating it can be trying to read long posts. (nothing personal, dear). I totally agree on breaking up longer posts into 2 or 3 shorter ones, and keeping your readers coming back for more.

Believe it or not, I’ve never counted the words on my personal blogs. I just tell what I’ve to say, sometimes it’s short, sometimes it’s long. If it gets very long, I break it up in multiple posts (happend only once).

Only now that I’m diving deeper in niche blog production, I’m starting to care about the lenghth of articles and I’ve installed the Firefox Word Count Plus plugin.

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alexander

I seem to land my word count under 300, I know it sounds crazy but I find it works for me, but I am not much of a writer.

My goal is to finish in the 300-500 word range. Sometimes it’s hard to stop and other times it’s a stretch.

I just read a post that was 1874 words (well glanced not really read). If a post it too long people lose interest and do what I did either skim it or skip it!

Most opinion pieces in newspapers are about 600 words. Here are a few links about word counts. It all depends on the material:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_count
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/opedsubmit.html

You also have to think how long can a person read on a computer monitor. And how a person can tolerate scrolling down the screen.

Depends - No I am not that old, yet.

It depends on what the Blog is about. If it is a ramble about a favorite Blog subject mine often go in the high hundreds.

If I am writing posts for a niche Blog and therefore writing for the bots, I keep them around 250 and stick the keyword in at least twice.

Rich Hill

I use the Blog Metrics wordpress plugin on my weight loss blog so I can tell you exactly what my stats are there.

For the 17 months I have been blogging there I have written 267 posts with an average 392 words per post. Interestingly, the comments on each post average 345 words so my readers are adding almost as much content as I am (although I do add to the comments too).

So far in 2009 I have written 5 posts with an average of 1166 words per post, and the comments are averaging 810 words.

I don’t think I’ll be keeping up those length of posts though!

Mine average at around 300-450 words and sometimes 175 words too, when just mentioning about some tools rather than reviewing them. But when i write a review or a tutorial, i try to explain things in a very detailed manner and exceed 1500 words too.