Thanks to my good friend Buck from BuckDaddyBlog.com, I’m going to take a stab at re-writing the original Making the Most From a Short Blog Post to see if I can improve on the readability. PLEASE, check out both posts and drop a comment in either one to let me know which one was the better read. I’m aiming to keep the story the same, just a little better layout. Thanks for humoring me, and thanks to Buck for prodding me!
As bloggers, we often feel as though we have to pen the perfect rendition of a modern day War and Peace for each post. We slave and suffer over word selection, sentence structure, and word count. How long is the perfect post? Shouldn’t they always be over 500 words? I’m stuck… what do I do!?!
First, let me reassure you… every piece doesn’t have to be the perfect piece. They don’t have to be novella length dissertations and you’re not going to fail the class if you don’t get it just right. In fact, short blog posts can be very powerful and many readers will appreciate them. Lets face it, sometimes we’re asking our readers for a pretty hefty investment to read the post we slaved over… so most won’t.
When you need to make a blog post short, keep these key blog post elements in mind:
