{"id":1405,"date":"2018-02-28T15:53:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T08:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.travelpayouts.com\/en\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2023-07-14T13:44:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T10:44:18","slug":"length-of-the-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelpayouts.com\/blog\/length-of-the-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Long or Short Articles: Which Is Better for Travel Blogging?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reasons to Be Different From the Majority<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Compared to short articles, long ones are very hard to write but there are many reasons to write longer articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less Competition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Based on what we\u2019ve encountered, 85% of authors write short articles (1,000 words or less); even in the travel market, only a few authors dare to attempt long-form blogging. Long articles don\u2019t mean choosing longer words or writing watery sentences without information. You must do a lot of searching and include many details about the topic and perhaps even details from different perspectives. Also, don\u2019t forget about other ways of sharing information – video and images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A high-quality long article requires more time and effort. Therefore, the competition is very low, and you have a higher chance of succeeded among fewer competitors. Pages with 1,000 words or less are rarely competitors for well-done pages with 3,000-5,000 or more words. Check it out right now in a Google search results page.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Long Articles Are Google\u2019s Favorite<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Google thinks that long articles are more detailed and complete then short ones. When the information is meticulous and extensive, it more likely has the answer for which the visitor is searching. Therefore, Google trusts long articles more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the search engine has its own methods for evaluating the quality of your post. Characters that were done for size, not for real information, will have the opposite effect for your page \u2013 it will increase or be totally invisible in SERP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, readers of small articles can jump to another website; for them, length may indicate that the article doesn\u2019t include the answers they want. This will affect your website\u2019s bounce rate \u2013 it will grow. Bounce rate is included in behavioral factors and has a huge impact for Google. You can improve the position of your webpage if you increase the average time spent on your page and reduce the number of people who immediately leave your posts. This will affect not only one page, but your entire blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When posts are longer, visitors often remain on the article longer to find the information they need. Some visitors even trust the information in longer articles more because it seems more professional to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Longer Articles Are More Adjustable for New Uses and Purposes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As we said, longs articles must be more detailed and include many aspects of the topic. Therefore, in the future, you can cut small parts of the post and use them as e-mail newsletters or a slide deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A long page offers more opportunities to add hyperlinks to redirect to your old posts. This will help increase the page depth parameter, which represents the number of pages, on average, a user visited. This is as important as the bounce rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Downsides of Longer Articles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If it were easy to create long stories, everybody would do it and this parameter would depreciate. The first hardship is that longer articles aren\u2019t easy to create, and they present more difficulties:<\/p>\n\n\n\n