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My name's Brandon Galey and welcome to episode 138 of the blog millionaire.

In this episode, I'm going to be diving into the statistics on blog post length from the

recent orbit media blogger survey.

Let's start by looking at the average word count of all blog posts by bloggers in the survey.

Back in 2014, the average blog post word count was just a tad beyond 800 words.

Over the past five years, the average word count has steadily climbed. This year, the average

word count is 1,151 words per blog post.

The average usually just tells a small part of the story.

Fortunately, orbit media broke down the percentage of bloggers that write fewer than 500

words, 500 to 1,000 words, 1,000 to 1,500 words, and more than 2,000 words.

I've revealed the stats from multiple studies on word count in past episodes that show how the

2,000 plus word count post dramatically outperforms the shorter blog post. Three separate studies showed a direct

correlation to the 2000 plus word post, getting the highest Google rankings, most social

shares, and most backlinks. Even with all of this data readily available to most bloggers,

only 8% of bloggers in the Orbit Media Study consistently wrote blog post with more than 2,000 words.

This was really shocking to me, but it also demonstrated how there is still a big opportunity out there for bloggers that do write 2000 Word Plus post.

If you can be part of this less than 10%, then your post will get the lion's share of first page Google rankings, social shares, and backlinks.

The orbit media study also asked the bloggers that wrote different blog post links

if they were getting big-time results from these blog posts.

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