B
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77.2%
77.2% -- referring domain links increase for blog content longer than 3,000 words (2023)
Content longer than 3,000 words gets an average of 77.2% more referring domain links than content shorter than 1,000 words.
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Value
77.2%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2023
Entity
Sample Size
11,800,000
Evidence Quality
B
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Backlinko
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Methodology
Backlinko analysis of 11.8 million Google search results comparing referring domain links earned by content longer than 3,000 words versus content shorter than 1,000 words.
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Segmentation
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blog content longer than 3,000 words: 77.2% referring domain links increase. Source: Backlinko (2023). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/backlinko-long-content-referring-domains
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