Even for those with no involvement in SEO (search engine optimization) marketing, SEOmoz has an interesting, very visual post of observations on the blog posts linked-to most in other blogs or sites.

It’s skewed because the statistics are for a list of 40 SEO blogs, not anything more general, but still compelling. SEOmoz found that the “sweet spots” for title length and post length were 14-16 words and 2328 to 2618, respectively. Goodness, I don’t know if I ever read blog posts that long, and may in fact skip them altogether at first glance. Not kidding about that.

As for a 16-word title . . . Well, you can see here how successful that is or isn’t. I think it’s funny looking, but it at least doesn’t break the look of my WordPress theme. I also had a hard time coming up with sixteen words, so I resorted to a list of nouns. Yeahhh.

SEOmoz is a total rabbithole. My colleague here reads and relies on it pretty regularly, and now that I’ve started keeping up with it on a casual level, I am pretty addicted.

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