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This is Brandon Galey. Welcome to episode number five of the blog millionaire.

Today we're going to be talking about what is the ideal post length for

SEO and engagement. At the end of the day when we're writing articles on our blogs, we're trying

to rank on Google for specific keyword phrases so that we can get that residual traffic flowing

into our blog on a daily basis. Now, the question that I get asked more than anything

on my website is, how many words should my blog post be? Now, the quick answer to this is,

longer is better. That is assuming that all of your content is quality. Before you even start

worrying about how many words your post have to be,

you need to focus on delivering quality content. That means going to step further than what everyone

else does. Now there is a strong correlation to word count because if you have a really long post,

then you're usually going deeper and longer than the competition.

Your 2,500 word post is probably going to be better than a 400 word post because there's

only so many things someone can cover in 400 words. So let's take a look at three of the

biggest studies on word count and see if we can narrow this down to an actual number.

Let's start with what is the average word count of the top 10 Google results.

SERP IQ found the average word count of post ranking number one on Google was around 2450 words.

Even the post that ranked number 10 on Google had a word count north of 2,000 words.

So when looking at just the statistics based upon the top 10 Google results across the board,

it looks like you need at least 2,000 words to just get skin in the game.

Now let's move on to the next study which focused on the correlation between the average

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