What’s the Right Length for your Content?

Try sketching one of your persona’s journeys. What questions are they asking? Do you have content that answers all those questions? Is it difficult or easy to pull out the answers? Not sure?

Consider user testing. You can always pull aside five people at a coffee shop and offer to buy them a cup of coffee if they’ll answer five minutes worth of questions for you.  Or email some friends and ask them to eyeball the content.  You never know what you might find out.

Getting content “just right” takes time and a commitment to iteration. Being afraid to experiment is the only way you can make a mistake.

Note:  It is worth noting that Google (and other search engines as well) probably won’t index a page that has fewer than 250 words. So don’t forget to take that into account.