Writing 2000 word articles to succeed in the online world

Reality: You can write 2,000 2,000 word articles and you still won't be successful.

The internet isn't a get rich quick scheme, there are no guarantees that anything you do will work. But good luck anyway!

Pipe Dream: Write 1 2,000 article and make bank. Go ahead and believe that!

Who knows. Google change it's algorithm all the time. What work today might not work tomorrow.

First off, grats on starting a new site and sticking with it. You received some very negative comments here early on and those people are 100% wrong...you are absolutely doing the right thing to build a brand. Just realize that every article doesn't have to be 2,000 words; you'll actually limit your subscribers if that's all you write because that's just too much content for some people. If it's well written though, then keep cranking out the longer articles.

Formatting and properly labelled images are crucial though, so make sure you're following Google's best practices (which, by the way...has never, ever changed once since the early 1990's). Short paragraphs, bullet points, labelled images, a strong title, hyperlinks, sub titles...it all has to be there for you to rank well for those terms.

To answer your other question, there's no set time you'll start to make money. It doesn't happen once you reach your 10,000th visitor or anything like that, you begin to make money when you figure out how to monetize your site. For example, Facebook lost money for years because they couldn't figure it out, and there's no magic formula. It will be different for every site. But hopefully you find products within your niche that your readers will appreciate, and that's all it really takes.

Thanks for letting me know. Not all of the articles are 2000 but will probably try and stay over 1000-1500. I get in my zone sometimes and just want to add everything I can and I figure that if I like it, so will other people. I was focused on the metal detectors as my niche and have branched off to treasure hunting and the best ways to make money starting your own website. I have an everything store and a metal detector store just in case anybody is looking for them specifically. I mostly just wanted to make a site that could show people the right ways to make money online as that is truly one of the hardest things when starting out. I'm pretty happy with how it looks right now and my sigs are seperate pages from the articles.

I would suggest that the impact of your writing has more to do with the actual content than the number of characters.

It doesn't matter if 10,000 or 500 as ong the quality is good.

While your focus should be on quality and engagement, it IS true that 1500+ word posts get more search engine traffic. This has been confirmed by raw data and statistical analysis. See How Long Should Each Blog Post Be? A Data Driven Answer and https://blog.bufferapp.com/the-ideal...ing-to-science

I'd strongly advise planning out your content ahead of time, so you can multi-purpose it and later package it in different ways.

My sweet spot is five 500-word articles, that are thematically related and can be presented as a series (part 1 of 5, etc.) -- which lends itself nicely to using them down the road as e-courses, a short report (when combined), or breaking the articles down further for an e-mail marketing campaign, as well as re-purposing the content in various Web 2.0 platforms.

Like DWolfe mentioned, you better watch out for those people. Make sure they are legit.

The long form articles are typically better at rankings but that doesn't mean you can slack off in promotion so if you put in a lot of work in your content, double the effort with promotion and like you said, at the end of the year, you'll have some pretty good traffic flowing in.

Be sure to build a relationship with your readers. It'll be a great help once you hit that plateau.

I usually delete all of the spam and have been getting about 3/4 of them being positive about the site. Those are all of the good ones that I have had so far and have trashed quite a few more of them. I also have a plugin that turns the comments into SEO points https://wordpress.org/plugins/blog-comments-seo/ and I'm hoping these will help me out at some point. Just wanted to tell everybody that the last thing I'm trying to do is spam the forum and there is really no point when my sigs are always under what I write anyways

I say keep doing what you are doing and dont let people discourage you.If you are providing new,quality content then you can success online,many people do its just how focused you are and how you go about monetizing your content and turning that into money

Keep focused and set your goals each day, in terms of writing. Once you have your goals set and you are focussed.

Yeah. I think I was trying to appeal to a bigger audience than just metal detectors and have gotten some great comments on the treasure hunting stuff. I actually have 2 different Amazon stores and most people will browse and end up buying something totally different than what they clicked on anyways. I just decided to put in the Top 10 free offers to show people what MaxBounty offered and it goes with starting your own blog. It may be that I have tried to do too much with the website but it is called NeedBucksNow and I wanted to focus on the many different ways of making money

NeedBucksNow,

Writing articles is only part of the solution to making money. I think you have a good start.

But I have to ask: Where are you promoting your articles? Internet marketing is all about selling. And you have to promote an offer in order to make a sale.

Also, how are you focusing the content of your articles? By that I mean: Are you writing an article with the specific purpose of selling something through the article?

Wouldn't it be good if every one of your articles had at least one link at the end to an offer page? Isn't that the purpose here . . . to monetize your writing skills?

I think you're off to a good start because of what you're doing . . . but if you want to actually make money from it . . .

1. Promote your articles to your niche audience after they are written, and
2. Write every article with the idea that it will lead to the sale of one of your products or services (or an affiliate product through your link),
3. Also, every article should be indexed on your site before you promote it on (to) other sites,
4. Every article should have a link back to your archive of all the other articles (so folks who like your writing can get more of it).

The very best to you,


Steve

You might want to install a spam comment blocker like askimet. Generic comments like "I love your site. I just bookmarked it!" are usually spam and if you start letting them in, they will overflow your pages.

Ah...these are spam:

Discovering Secret Metal Detector Treasure | Need Bucks Now

There is no doubt that what you are doing can work, will it? is the question. For traditional blogs longer articles are better for rankings and traffic. You don't need anyone's opinion you can see it in your numbers if they are growing.

How long did it take for someone to make money from their articles? Hard question to answer. There are people who put up 3 articles totaling 2000 words and make money while others can blog all their life and not make money. It is all about how well you are serving and meeting the needs of your readership.

If you can see that it is growing, you like what you are doing and you have a plan to monetize it keep going!

I dont think it matters how many words are in the article, it matters how quality the article is and where it is posted.

Hey let me tell you that if your article is contain the word that you want to rank on Google 3 times, you will definitely drive more visitors to your website and every article you write on your blog if is unique and seo friendly will be indexed by Google for sure. So keep writing very good and unique content all you have to, will be in your advantage.

Content length is only one way to measure if the article is a good quality or not. A "quality" article can be 250 words or 1250 words. What matters is that you choose an idea and write until you're finished with that idea to the best of your abilities.

Of course, this doesn't guarantee profits. That's a whole other animal! But, great content is an excellent start.

It's your blog so you build it the way you please. There's no limit to how many words you can write. If you can do 2,000, then why limit yourself? Write 2,000. The awesome thing about that is the longer and more relevant the blog post is, obviously the more value is present. If there's a lot of value, people will feel and see it creating more attraction hence more traffic.

If it was me though, I wouldn't limit myself to 1 article a week. I've been blogging for 5 years now and I never go lower than 3 blog posts a week each blog post at least 700-1,500 words. If you can do 5 in a week, that would be 20 articles a month. A little bit of sacrifice at the start is always worth it when the reward at the end line is way worth it!

By the way, congrats with your current results! Things are only going to keep getting better from here on in.

One thing to remember is that the longer the article, the better its structure has to be.

Most people skim and scan online so you need to create signposts in the form of subheads and bullets to allow easy access to the various sections.

Otherwise a visitor looking for a particular piece of information might get frustrated and click away.

As a general rule, longer articles will always rank higher than shorter articles, if all else is held equal.

I once saw someone get #1 on Google for a semi-competitive keyword in just a few days by publishing a 10,000+ word article on the topic.

2000 words article.. I think It's suck as reader..

If you want to succeed online and achieve something by writing your articles, you have to make an effort to make them great and useful for the readers.
Just by writing 2,000 words, you won't have any guarantee that you'll be successful
You can write an amazing and insightful article in just 500-600 words, or, you can write a crappy article of 2,000 words...
So, the thing is, don't focus on length, focus more on quality.

If people are enjoying your writing that much, the only mistake you are making is not capturing their email addresses. If you are, then you aren't following up with emails.

Don't jump into emailing people like many marketers here do though.

Affiliate offers are all well and good if you personally find them beneficial, or if they are a good fit for what you are writing about, but building rapport with your list should be more than that.

Think about this - how often do we all find something really beneficial online and bookmark it, but never actually return to the site?

The answer is to grab your visitors email. Email them with your new posts, stuff you find that's useful (someone else's stuff), links to products you create with a subscriber discount, good affiliate offers.

Just don't write and then expect to make money.

That being said, if you can write that much, have you thought of creating a PLR store and selling your writing?