| The question is often raised as to how long online | | | | 210 words, but not often, only every once in a while, |
| articles should be for online article marketers. | | | | which is why I have changed my thinking to relaxed |
| Interestingly enough we see many of the Internet | | | | minimum word counts. As an author of articles |
| news articles 150 to 250 words, which isn't very | | | | myself, I remember in the beginning I was writing |
| much, but it is enough to allow for the basics, such | | | | 1500 word articles and one of the website directory |
| as the; who, what, when, where, how and why; | | | | owners was nice enough to send me a personal |
| which we often associate with our news. Still, online | | | | email, asking why I was writing such long articles. |
| article marketing is somewhat different in that the | | | | That was back in 2005 and there were not many |
| goal is to gain the readers trust, give them some | | | | people posting articles on these types of Internet |
| decent information, and then allow them to click on | | | | article sites. One of the top websites at the time, I |
| the link on the byline of the article. | | | | think only 2000 authors or so, most with only 1-20 |
| Some believe the length to get that done means the | | | | articles, but that is how it started, so it's been a long |
| article needs to be 400-600 words, others who are | | | | road, and a lot of work as I can see, very humble |
| extremely good writers do it much faster. So, indeed, | | | | beginnings of this article marketing venue, which sure |
| you can see the dilemma here, it's almost as if it is an | | | | has done an incredible thing, I look back and say |
| individual thing? So, the question in this case is what | | | | "wow!" |
| stipulations should Internet article directory websites | | | | Articles are also an interesting thing, because some |
| put as their mandatory minimum for article word | | | | popular or famous quotes can make us really think |
| count acceptance? Ah, good question, right. | | | | for hours and they are only two-lines. Great Poetry is |
| Maybe 300-words might help or be temporary | | | | often like this, it puts a world of information and |
| compromise. Or 400 words for new article authors | | | | everlasting insight into 80 words or less often |
| which are still in the trial period with a basic Level | | | | enough. Sometimes it is the message you convey, |
| membership. Later it could be taken down to 300 | | | | and that doesn't really have much to do with the |
| after 50 articles had been submitted? Although, I've | | | | word count. |
| seen folks with 1,000 articles with 260 words of | | | | Of course, if folks are trying to "pump out" articles |
| absolute nonsense, as in; "What the heck are they | | | | with catchy titles, and as many as humanly or |
| doing with or trying to prove with that article?" | | | | computer generated possible, then they write to the |
| Interestingly enough, I can recall when the word | | | | word count minimum and often, abruptly end the |
| count was 200-words at one of the top directory | | | | article, leaving the reader to think "WTH" and more |
| article web sites and things were not working out | | | | importantly thinking "why did I waste my time," then |
| because some authors would write a sentence, make | | | | that is a travesty to all article authors on any of the |
| a new paragraph, write a sentence, make a new | | | | directory sites and the future potential revenue |
| paragraph until they had 15-16 lines of text and call it | | | | stream to all the authors. Too much of that sort of |
| an article at 201 words? That didn't work. | | | | thing will get major search engines to down-grade |
| Although, occasionally there was a decent article with | | | | and that would be horrible. Please consider all that. |