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I just wrote a 2,000+ word post last night, and it really sparked an energy in me for blogging again. I've been worn out with tax season, and jumping back into 15-20 hours a week of blogging after that seemed like a huge bummer. I wanted a long break, and was getting frustrated with writing. Last night, I finally decided to write about something that was exciting, our free vacation on credit card points. I wrote for about 2 hours, looked up and it was midnight, but I was so energized it didn't matter. I had finally fallen back in love with blogging!

I suggest you all give it a shot. At some point this month, shoot for a big, meaty 2,000+ word post to re-ignite your blogging passion and give your readers something to indulge in! And, as Sam has mentioned in the past, Whale posts are back in style for SEO and traffic, so the incentive is already there. So, go ahead, give it a shot. See if you don't feel 100% better about your blog writing about something you care about, and see how the readers respond. I bet they'll LOVE IT almost as much as you do :)

For those that are curious, here's the post: 

Our Vacation For Free On Credit Card Points

I think whale posts can be demoralizing as well. I have written three different posts that weighed in at over 2000 words. I think that, combined, they've only received about 150 pageviews, which is less than my daily average traffic!

In last three weeks, I wrote two whale posts, one with 3600 words and this Monday's was 2700 words. The second one was mentioned by Wisebread today and from there it propagated to my yahoo front page for a short time.

Also the highest traffic post I have is of 2000+ words. So it's not always waste of effort and energy to write such posts.

Remember also that it can take time for a big post to gain traction. In weeks or even months down the line a big blog may find it and link to it, causing a surge in the SE rankings.

Honestly. Nobody really wants to read 2000 words. Even some of the most popular blogs don't go over 1000. 

However, I am happy you are energized. 

Most of my blog posts are 1500 words plus with some over 3000 words. In fact I was told today by an expert that I break all the "unwritten" rules for blogging, but my traffic just set new records for April with over 42k pageviews and a couple of weeks back my blog http://www.theSarayiahpost.com squeezed into the top 10k websites in the UK for traffic. It is 20 months old.

If I might add, it's not the length, but the quality of the meat.  I go to church every week, and it's a mystery to me how some sermons are hour long and they feel short and some sermons are 20 minutes long and it's the longest 20 minutes I had to bear.  When I watch stand-up comedians, although they don't have a point, I don't know how they get their audience so engaged with what they have to say.  I think its similar with a blog post. 

What Peter said…..

I completely agree. I'm bored silly by some 2k posts and others I leave them wishing they had even more information. The key is engagement.