30.000 words Post!

Just FYI - This "30.000" denotes 30 (thirty). Thirty thousand is "30,000".

Split it up for SEO purposes and more importantly for Engagement purposes to keep it palatable for you Visitors


- Robert Andrew

You might consider giving it away as a guide to entice people to sign up for your email list instead of using it as a post.

Rose

Splitting it would be good both for SEO and engagement as one of the member already suggested. It would also be helpful for user to get related info easily.

Go ahead and make the post . . . but be aware . . . no one will read it and the search engines will most likely ignore it.

The average word count for one page of 12 pt text for a typical ebook is 250 words. So you have a 120-page "book" that you're turning into a single post.

Who has the time to read that? And unless the content is very focused, extremely well written, and craved by your audience, no one is going to bookmark a post and come back to it time and again to finish reading everything.

IMO, your idea is a huge waste of effort. Of course, I don't know your niche, am not your follower, and haven't seen the post . . . so I could be wrong.

I think you would be much smarter to turn the 30,000 words into a series of bite-sized short reports (say 8 reports of 15 pages each) with a highly focused topic and a transition from one report to the next. Who knows, you might even be able to sell this series of reports if the information is good enough and the audience hungry enough.

Steve

IMO that's kind of large for a single post, if you're using it as content id break it up.
But as others have suggested you may want to use this as a lead magnet to entice visitors to sign up to a list.

Splitting into smaller chapters sounds like a good idea, but make sure to link it all together properly, so whichever post your visitor ends up reading, he/she will be able to find the rest of the guide.

Yeah PPG, I'd have a hard time reading a 30,000 word post.

I'd definitely break it up into smaller-sized chunks.

Otherwise, my eyes glaze over.

Sounds like something you could set up for a membership site man.

Just sayin' lol.

-Phil

People who care will in fact read all 30,000 words of your post. Don't listen to people who say they absolutely won't. But if, as you said, there is a ton of content including images and video, you'd do better off to split it off into sections. You're welcome to post all of those sections all at once, but don't make them part of 1 continuous page. This will overload peoples computer.

I have a 7,000 word post with 16 images. I condensed all the images as well as I could while still maintaining quality. It takes a little while to load, even on my above-average computer. I've strongly considered breaking the post up into 15 sections (its an intro + 15 tips) for people to read through, if for no other reason than to decrease site load time.

This also gives you the benefit of having more pages appear in google (in my case 15 instead of 1). This will give you more ranking opportunities and may be ultimately more beneficial.

As others have stated, if you want to keep all 30,000 words, videos, and pictures together as one continuous document, you're better off offering it as a .pdf ebook for download. It doesn't matter whether or not you charge for it, there are benefits to both approaches. But 30,000 words is reaching novel size, and is definitely something you could look at putting up on Amazon for example. ("FREE if you download it from me, or $0.99 to get it on your kindle" will drive up your subscribe rate while still trickling in sales from your dedicated following)

Hey man,
Just a thoguht, if your post is extremely well written and informative you might consider if selling it via a paid-newsletter or a course/ebook would be a good idea, you might also give out a 1 or 2 first chapters for free for an email sign-up and sell the remaining part. I know for a fact that most people will not read such a long post if it's not something that they really need, and if it is then you might as well sell it.

split it up..

i can't see justifying that unless its for a small book.

but yea, good on you for creating such a detailed resource

best of luck,
Ike Paz

Hey there!


I personally would never read a 30,000 post!


I think 90% of people wouldn't either.


There is some good advice in other posts, what I will say though is


try and keep it around 1500 words and use proper formatting!


Have a great day!

Good on you!

Although, I would advice that you split it up. People tend to like to get their answer quick. If they feel like they have to read too much then there is a high chance they may look elsewhere for the same content.

30,000 is definitely too long! Unless the reader is knowingly going into it (eg. buying a novel or a textbook), I'd have a hard time believing they'll even get a quarter of the way before quitting.

I'm currently writing my PhD Thesis, it has about 32,000 words.

You can SPLIT or

make a FREEBIE to give to your list!

or...BOTH!

I mean, you can make a tiny version as a blog post, and for having the entire article, which in fact is a GUIDE, they have to OPT-IN so it's GOOD for LIST BUILDING purpose.

Try it. It worth.

After 500 words or so, you run the risk of losing your reader’s attention. My suggestion is to break it up several posts for your blogs per specific topic. You can break the 30,000 into long-form content of 3,000 word post and several 500 word posts. Then create a blog content calendar to post these articles on your blog. Get snippets for social media posts as well.

As long as it's high quality, in-depth content that is evergreen (or something that you would update regularly) and formatted well, that long post can help improve your search rankings and attract backlinks.

Check out how marketers turning long-form content into a powerful tool to drive traffic and for branding: Forbes Welcome

Try to separate them 1000 words for each and make a attractive title for every post. Thank you!

My two cents: split it up into several parts to make the content digestible and keep people engaged.

This is also good for SEO since you can rank every page - every part of your guide - for specific keywords.

Here are two examples of what I am talking about:
- Keyword Research: The Definitive Guide
- The Ultimate Guide to Remarkable Content

Good luck

Dan