How long should a "quality" blog post be?  General advice seems to be that a 300 word post just won't cut it, but advice on the optimum length is vague.  I appreciate that all posts are different but is there a rule of thumb, is 1000 words good and 1500 too long...or should they are all aim to be 2000 words?

Also with regards to pictures in blogs, can they just be taken from the web or are there sites that I should be using to source the pictures?

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I would be link building for SEO purposes so I would not want the links to be nofollow.  From what you are saying, and if it actually becomes reality that google hits guest posts then I as our site has zero guest posts at present I am better off not doing anything and waiting for the google update, the sites above me will fall and I will rise surely

Thanks so if I don't guest blog what other ways are there to get links?

Is guest posting to get links a good idea?

I have the blogs to post but do not have the time to find, approach and build a relationship with bloggers to get the guest posts.  Are guest posting services a good idea and if so can anyone recommend one?

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I have just noticed one instance where Adwords clicks are higher..thus breaking the theory

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Yes they are linked.  I think I may have just solved it.  In Google under Traffic Sources the "google / cpc" is always a bit higher than the clicks in Adwords for a given period.  On looking into the data more I can see that they are reporting the same keywords but on some of the keywords GA is reporting a few more clicks.  I am guessing this is due to people revisiting.  Is it that GA records the second visit again but adwords only records the original click?

Does this theory sound right?  It the only thing I can think of.  I suppose another way to ask the same question is "Does GA record revisits but adwords doesn't?"

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Sorry I should have made it clearer.  By CPC I mean the traffic source. Paid clicks as opposed to Organic clicks

I would expect that the CPC source in GA to match the PPC clicks in Adwords but they don't

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Why do our CPC in Google Analytic not match our PPC in Adword, surely they should be identical?  We have Auto-tagging switched on and data in our history is wrong so it is not a timing issue.

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