How long your hubs usually are?

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   ronny2005posted 11 years ago

   How long your hubs usually are?

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   cam8510posted 11 years ago

   When I first came to HubPages I wrote one hub which had more than 3000 words.  I learned quickly not to try that anymore.  I slowly reduced the length of my articles to where they are well under a thousand words for the most part.  I finally had to admit that I don't like to read very long hubs.  I would define very long as something over 1500 words.  Now, when I write my short fiction stories, also known as Flash Fiction, they are around 500 words.  Editing before publishing helps a lot.  When I keep my readers in mind, I try to show respect for them by keeping the fluff down and quality up.  I figure that a happy reader is much more likely to share my article to someplace off HubPages which creates a backlink to me.

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      JimTxMillerposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Keeping the readers in mind is key for me as well, Cam. Good answer.

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   Robbie C Wilsonposted 11 years ago

   My hubs which are typically technology based (usually on Excel 2007) are typically between 1,000 and at the most 1,500 words. I find that a hub with that number of words is long enough for me to fully explain what my hub is about without getting too epic and boring people. I think length will vary based on both the topic and how detailed the subject is.

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   JimTxMillerposted 11 years ago

   Long enough to cover the topic and not so long as to become tiresome for the reader. I tend not to write with word-count targets in mind. On the other hand, writing within a set word-count limit is an excellent device to sharpen writing skills.
   
   I shoot for 500 to 1,000 words for a single hub. If I see that the topic wants more than 1,000, then I start thinking "group", a series of related hubs.

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      cam8510posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      From what I understand, Google likes things grouped and linked, so series hubs are good from several angles.  Readers are happy, Google is happy, so the author should be too.

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   mariasialposted 11 years ago

   The word size of my hubs ranging b/w 400 words till  900 words but one thing i can tell you for sure that Hubs with the word size of 600 or more perform better than short hubs

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   CrescentSkiesposted 11 years ago

   few thousand words. I think my longest is about ten thousand.

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