Who reads anymore long form content?...🤔
I believe that there is room for. everyone and I would even encourage people to do tweet types of posts but not abuse with that. I also believe that stressing on Hive to remain only a blogging dedicated platform will limit its potential.
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I used to think too. Having blogged for 8+ years, I have kind of changed my thinking. In fact, a lot has changed.
Medias are going with long-form content (so they can offer detailed reports and people are happy to pay for such content). Google, for example, also loves in-depth content and ranks them higher on Google News.
Plus, there were tonnes of studies on why long-form beats short content.
Take this pic as an example:
The "head" is where the meat - traffic is. The head is thick and long. It is our long-form content. As you go from head to tail, you start to lose traffic and turn into another mediocre content players.
I don't know if you know Stratechery. He writes long-form content and alone makes over $2 million through $5 subscription. People love reading content that has some depth, insights, and lasts forever.
Even on Medium, you find examples of long-form content making $10k and upwards while short content earns a couple of hundreds dollar at best.
This, I believe, is because anyone can write - and that leads to an increase in mediocre content.
As i said earlier, If I could learn something new from the long form content, I would have spent hours before realising it. I read a lot of interesting stuffs from Quora, everyday.
But sometimes I feel that some people here write 2000 word post just for the sake of making it lengthy. At the end you will realize that all you read so far was a garbage.
One problem with the Hive is increasing automation. Big stake holders have written codes to choose contents. These bots consider 500 words + content as quality ones and automatically push them up.
As far as SEO is concerned, as you mentioned, having over 1500 words is perfect. But not everyone is made for it.
However, when it comes to a social media concept such as Hive, it can have any form of content. People may want to share a story from their lives. Maybe a photo and a short story behind it.
Again quality is subjective. One can attain influence even with a short content if he/she is really bringing in quality.
True. Great points about the Hive issues as well. I don't write long-form all the time because the results are not close to the effort yet.