You want to write somewhere between 600-800 words, certainly no more than 900, and no less than 500 when writing for online portals. Keep in mind this is an online strategy. People like short, quick information. If it’s too short, less than 500, people question the quality of the article that you’re writing. Can you really express your expertise and provide helpful tips in an article that’s short?

If it’s too long, the article portals don’t want it because it eats up too much of their space. Secondly, people don’t have the time to read long articles.

When you’re writing articles for portals, you’re most likely cutting and pasting your articles from a Word document up to a website. Before you do that, make sure you cut it and paste it into a program such as Notepad. It removes the hard returns that Word puts into the document. Remember, when you’re posting up to the website, the formats that you’re using are very automated, but they sometimes will hold onto a hard return, and then once your article is posted, it looks terrible. If something looks terrible, it’s likely that people are not going to read it. You want your article to look attractive online.

For more tips on writing quality articles for online portals, check out How to Submit Online Articles That Pull Traffic to Your Website.