I did this more organically over many years but I believe this method would have sped my progress if my goal had been to be more concise. I suggest you write your article as you usually do - stream of consciousness. When you go back to edit and fix typos, sentence structure, etc., ask yourself some questions with each paragraph. My point here is? How can I make it with fewer words? Would a question serve better than a statement?

I can only guess this might be tedious for the first half dozen articles, then your stream of consciousness starts taking on the concision you are after and by the time you write the next half dozen, there will be very little work needed on the edit. I have been publishing here for just over a year and when I started my best essays were 1000 to 1500 words. Now I am saying as much with 500 to 800. Not bad for a year of not really trying. I could have telescoped it into two months if I had known how much more readable the short essays were, in the beginning.

BTW- Loved your website and I am a big fan of non-lethal personal security equipment and gadgets to protect folks from criminals. Great stuff. I would say to you that explaining your products to the consumer thru online article writing makes a lot of sense. I believe you should write 2-3 articles per week on your subject, because it is such a much needed thing to give people piece of mind.

Sounds like you have a heck of a lot to gain from compiling like reviews together and posting them as articles with lead in paragraphs or trasitional paragraphs between reviews. And if you combine them together with 2-3-4 each with additional paragraphs, you would have a lot of article immediately to help bring traffic thru the byline links.

Lance

YES, 1,000 words is too long for an article in this type of venue.

Recommendation: Break your articles in half (500 words each) and I know they will produce more results for you.

One article I’ve recently written appeared in Google within 2 weeks in the top 10. I’m not kidding. And it’s still there. I’d really like to know who contributes to their algorhythm because it’s crazy. You never know who or what they’re going to index.

P.S. Chris, I know Google indexes EA articles, but I haven’t seen them on Yahoo. Any ideas why?