bloggingrocket.com » word count http://www.bloggingrocket.com Launch your WordPress blog the right way, first time. Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:35:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Word Count :: Count the words in a blog post http://www.bloggingrocket.com/word-count-count-the-words-in-a-blog-post/ http://www.bloggingrocket.com/word-count-count-the-words-in-a-blog-post/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:12:16 +0000 Ian Blackford http://www.bloggingrocket.com/?p=315 Did you know there was an sweet spot for blog post length? It’s approx 300ish words according to my research.

So how do you count your words? As I’ve said many times before don’t use Word to type your blog posts, so that means using Word’s count facility is out of the question. So what should you do?

Well when you are next writing a post on your blog, glance to the right just under the SAVE and PUBLISH buttons is a handy little word count gem built straight into the core of WordPress. Keep typing and watch the little counter increment every few seconds.

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