{"id":795,"date":"2014-02-10T10:01:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T10:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/?p=795"},"modified":"2019-02-21T12:19:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:49:33","slug":"difference-long-form-short-form-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/difference-long-form-short-form-content\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between long form and short form content"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long form vs. short form content<\/h2>\n
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  1. Long form content is generally more than 2500 words and short form content is around 800-1000 words.<\/li>\n
  2. Long form content is descriptive, authoritative and well researched and short form content is brief and normally, doesn’t cover the topic in its entirety.<\/li>\n
  3. Long form content takes effort and time whereas short form content can be published in quick successions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Do I recommend long form content or short form content?<\/h2>\n

    A healthy mix of both. There is a reason.<\/p>\n

    As mentioned in the above bulleted list, long form content takes time and effort. Below I am going to explain what are the overwhelming advantages of publishing long form content on an ongoing basis, but you should maintain a balance between publishing longer pieces of content and shorter content pieces so that you have authoritative content as well as regular content.<\/p>\n

    Of course, if you have a dedicated team of multiple content writers you can publish many long form blog posts and web pages even in a single day, but if you have just one content writer (or if you write yourself) it may take a few days, even a week, to write a descriptive, well-researched, authoritative long form blog post.<\/p>\n

    Irrespective of their great benefits, one of the drawbacks of solely focusing on long form blog posts and web pages is that the frequency of publishing may be curtailed.<\/p>\n

    This is why I suggest maintaining a balance. While your longer blog post is being created, for regular updates, keep on publishing short content so that the search engine crawlers crawl your website or blog regularly.<\/p>\n

    What if you need to make a choice? Long form blog posts, without a doubt.<\/p>\n

    He’s a good infographic on the importance of publishing longform content<\/a>. As usual, when I link to external infographics I just post the topmost portion and then link to the original image, and I’m doing the same here.<\/p>\n

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    Infographic link on the importance of longform content<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    Why you cannot ignore long form content if you’re serious about improving your SEO?<\/h2>\n

    If you bet highly on your search engine rankings then you must be doing lots of reading on what sort of content ranks higher on search engines, and if you prefer to keep yourself abreast with the latest, you must have come across a term called “long form content”.<\/p>\n

    Google it seems, loves longish, research-based articles and blog posts, possibly spanning multiple pages. This is called long form content<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    Such content, presumably, takes lots of effort and time to come into existence, and hence, by the virtue of being difficult to create, earns ranking points from Google.<\/p>\n

    Aside from multi-page blog posts and articles, other examples of long form content are<\/p>\n