{"id":9,"date":"2004-09-23T16:09:28","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T03:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/get-to-the-point\/"},"modified":"2016-01-19T18:44:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T07:44:46","slug":"get-to-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/get-to-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to the Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The average person reading speed is 200 words per minute<\/b> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingsoft.com\">What&#8217;s Yours?<\/a> (The speed reading record is 1347 wpm)<\/p>\n<p>In <span class=\"forgotten-link\">96 seconds<\/span> they will read 320 words. <\/p>\n<p>So keep things short and to the point. I know this sounds crazy coming from me &#8211; but the stats show my longer posts are often largely are ignored.<\/p>\n<p><b>EXTENDED ENTRY<\/b> &#8211; If you&#8217;re going to write a long post &#8211; consider writing a punchy introduction that makes your main points so that when your reader gets the &#8216;itch to click&#8217; they&#8217;ve grasped your message. After the introduction refer your readers via a &#8216;read more&#8217; link to another page for the rest of your post if they want to know the details. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/\">MT&#8217;s<\/a> Extended Entry feature is handy way to do this automatically). <\/p>\n<p><b>MULTIPLE POSTS<\/b> &#8211; consider breaking your long post down into multiple entries to be posted over a period of time &#8211; be sure to link them to one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average person reading speed is 200 words per minute &#8211; What&#8217;s Yours? 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