How many 7000 word articles before we should launch
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We are in a standard wide niche, my website composes so far of one 7000 word article on spiritual awakening. I have 14 more articles sketched, on various related topics, each 5000-15000 words per article, targething main keywords in the niche. I am qualified to tie the whole niche together and draw new meaning but it takes in debth length.
The question is how many 5K-15K page articles would you recommend polishing before launching the thing. Everything is launched, hid from the search engines, and I need to know how many articles to publish before I let the search engines look at my site. Looking for the best thing for long term growth.
Thanks.
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Hi Bob,
14 is a real good number to be honest. Now, I think you should start focusing on pushing it to your target audience. So, that they get to know about it (and ultimately about your site/ product). So, when you launch, it finally converts for you.
Few quick things:
- I personally love reading long articles full of action items / insights. But, there are few things that I hope you have checked:
a) What is the ideal length of posts in your niche?? Just because Google loves long posts ( Here is a support article for this) your all posts should be lengthy.
Writing for search engines is good. But, writing your target audience will drive better results for your content marketing efforts.
b) If possible, talk to 2-3 people (who you think belong to your target audience) and ask them:
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What types of posts they like to read --> lengthy / short/ medium
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What all types of topics they like to read about??
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Use tools like Hotjar to see how readers are interacting with your posts?
This should give you fair idea.
BTW, an ideal number would be 4-6 posts ( because these many posts are good enough for readers to decide whether they want to follow a blog or not)
Hope this helps
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Hi Bob,
Those sound terribly long. What is the thinking behind such big articles? These can often work against you because people see how big they are and then don't read it - this can have a number of negative impacts.
Do you think that people are going to be reading the whole thing? Have you got tracking in place to monitor what people are doing on the page? (use HotJar).
-Andy
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