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Originally Posted by CoolBee  Only because most of my posts on my oldbag blog are long - by which I mean a few thousand words, and I don't care! I'm in it to be informative and it's 'niche'. Not making any money from it! (4 years of adsense have earned me about £25 - $40 so far not even enough for a pay out) and zero from Amazon. |
Well, I certainly hope you do much better with the new year! How's your SEO? Are you actively promoting the blog? I doubt that the article/post distinction in itself, as a semantic technicality, has anything to do with online success.
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Originally Posted by CoolBee But, I want to start a more business-orientated blog - still to decide whether to include in my website or have as an adjunct somehow - and most of the advice seems to recommend blog posts not being more than a few hundred words. |
Yeah, people don't like to read: that's why Twitter is so big! Even when reading the NYT or something I find that while I'm grateful for the information, I have this weird urge to move on! I think it's the click-click-click nature of our online habits that's to blame. Plus, at least for my generation, we associate computers and the internet with games and other audiovisual fare, like reading is what the
offline world is about!
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Originally Posted by CoolBee So, I was just wondering if people make a distinction, and perhaps post one type on the blog and another type on the website (or different areas). For example, maybe if using Wordpress might set 'articles' up as 'pages' rather than 'posts', or something like that. |
Certainly! I do believe that was the original mindset, though it's now more a technical formality than anything else: when I first started out a few months ago, it was confusing that certain WordPress themes use "posts" in the manner I would have thought would be reserved for "pages" -- and vice-versa -- but oh well if it made the programmer's life easier somehow....
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Originally Posted by CoolBee I was in fact just looking at one of Steve's long articles and it is a bit different to his blog posts in not having links to next post etc posted on it. |
I've always taken Steve's "articles" to be just "posts," however informative. But yeah, I've seen a few like that...I think those are supposed to be money-makers, like his review of SBI! and whatnot (someone correct me if I err), so I think the idea is to make sure all links go to the sales landing page instead of taking the reader away elsewhere.