Oh, and being crazy obsessed with Adsense (example: logging in every 4 minutes to check earnings) is something everyone goes through at some point. As long as you grow out of it, you’ll be fine.

Matt Harris: Thanks dude. And yeah, I think #7 would give a lot of people a lot of hours of their day back.

Dex: The “truth to it” I was referring to has A LOT less to do with how many words a piece of content has or how long/short it is, and A LOT more to do with what the piece of content covers. Meaning, if it’s super long because it covers so many different subjects, SEO-wise you might be better off splitting it up into some number of separate pages that are optimized for each individual subject.

This doesn’t always mean it’s the right thing to do for your readers though (and that should be put before SEO or anything else for that matter). But if it would make the content better, then it’s the right thing to do. If it would make the content worse, but help a little with SEO, then it’s the wrong thing to do.

Case in point… this very post. Technically each item on this list could have been its own individual post. This is the context where it makes some sense for SEO. The context I’m referring to in this post is just insignificant nonsense.

And the page with 16,000 words was the kind of thing that most people would turn into some sort of ebook and sell. I decided to put it out there for free and use it as one of the key things that puts that site on the map. And that’s exactly what it ended up doing. So really making it free helped lead to the kind of consistent traffic and authority I would have needed in order to successfully sell something in the first place. Win!

Adrian: Very cool. Looking forward to helping you help your blog.

I love the 1st, 2nd and 7th points on this post. So true! Looking forward to more posts from ya. They should help me grow my blog!
Cheers

You said “And for SEO? Yeah, there’s actually some truth to it in a certain context (another post for another day)” I know you said another post for another day but now you got me wondering what you meant.

What the hell was the thing with 16000 words?

Thanks.

I agree with so much here I don’t really know where to start. I’ve been guilty of #1 for sure – trying to keep posts at around 600 to 800 words. Easy to understand how silly it is when you break it down like that.

I’m going to being listening to #7 for sure and its probably going to give me an extra hour of my day back.

Awesome post!

In the back of my head, I had had a feeling that the only thing that really mattered was writing content and getting it in front of people, but this post really shot me in the face about that. Thanks.

Well, you don’t seem to have a hard time “creating, marketing, and profiting.”

Great post.