Does Article Length Equal Money?

Does the length of your article equal the money that you will generate from it? Regardless of whether directly or indirectly linked to your product, affiliate site, or squeeze page? Most would agree that in fact it does.

The main reason for this is because ezine and website publishers only want and need a certain type of 'free content'. For the ezines it needs to have an optimum length which for most is what will comfortably fit on one page.

And neither of them want content that is full of links leading away from them or have spam words. Such as the phrase 'f_*e content' at the start of last paragraph. Email readers may never even see it due to the filters.

Having just looked around at some of the article directories there seems to be a general consensus that 200 to 250 words is the going rate for the minimum article size. With the upper limit around 2500 to 3000 or so. But if you want ezines to reuse your article and make it a bit viral 400 to 700 is better. It will vary depending on the amount of open 'white space'.

Even webmasters will want it about this size so that it is not to scary to read from the looks of it and it will fit above the fold. But then again some webmasters have nothing but adsense and other ads above the fold. Even so 400 to 700 and maybe 800 maximum is the better bet.

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