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The Importance of Longform Content for Your Website

The Importance of Longform Content for Your Website | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

In recent months a debate has been brewing around whether shortform or longform content is winning the race for people’s attention. No doubt there are merits to both sides, but there seems to be some confusion abound the subject. 


For clarity, longform means articles, white papers and e-books of 2,000 words or more, while shortform refers to content of 500 to 1,000 words.


Is there really a difference in their overall performances? Science suggests there is.


What the Studies Are Suggesting


Many of today’s Internet marketers swear by shortform content, citing a number of independent studies that indicate audience attention spans are falling and as much as 32 percent of users will begin abandoning websites in as little as five seconds if they are slow to load. 


This doesn’t speak to the effectiveness of the format in reaching its audience in terms of visibility and findability through search. This is one of the most important advantages that longform content has over its counterpart....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Longform content can still appeal to readers particularly if you mix up your content.

Marco Favero's curator insight, July 18, 2015 4:48 AM

aggiungere la vostra comprensione ...

Dr. Karen Dietz's comment July 20, 2015 3:30 PM
Great find Jeff! Thanks for this.
Thorsten Strauss's curator insight, September 24, 2015 7:54 AM

best practice: content length on web site. Long form is important because people get lazy in searching. That is why google prefers sources that give comprehensive answers and leave readers satisfied. 

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The Long-Form Renaissance | Industry News | AltWeeklies.com

The Long-Form Renaissance | Industry News | AltWeeklies.com | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
While long-form journalism's 'resurgence' may be over-hyped, technology is changing how people access it.

 

Over the past year or so, a number of high-profile and prominent journalists and technologists have launched new apps, sites and other ventures dedicated to cultivating lengthy works of journalism. These projects — like The Atavist, Byliner, Longform.org, Longreads.com, Readability and others — are being credited with reviving a dead or near-dead art.

 

But the obituary for long-form journalism was actually never written, according to some alt-weekly editors....

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Hi: Narrative mapping the world

Hi: Narrative mapping the world | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

"Hi is a website that lets you attach a snippet of text and a photograph to a location. We call that a moment. Moments are grouped by location. You can then choose to return to that moment later and extend it — write 100 or 10,000 words about it. That collection — moments tied to location, some short, some extended — is a narrative mapping."

 


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Jeff Domansky's insight:

This is a really interesting social media tool and well worth exploring for all kinds of possibilities. What also really got my attention was how incredibly beautiful and effective the design and layout of Medium is. For storytelling and longer form journalism it's superb. 

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