B
Evidence Grade B
Graded
accuracy verified by the review judge
Safe to Cite
Recent
77.2%
77.2% -- backlinks acquired for long-form articles (2025)
Articles of more than 3,000 words get 77.2% more backlinks compared to articles of less than 1,000 words.
Attribution:
View source
Lighthouse Research Team
Last verified:
·
How we verify data →
Source verified
Evidence graded
Value
77.2%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
Strong, reliable evidence
Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
Single source - not yet corroborated
Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
BuzzSumo and Backlinko
Primary
Tier C
https://iamrafiqul.com/tips-to-create-quality-content/ ↗
Source Article
17 Most Essential Tips to Create High-Quality Content – SK RAFIQUL ISLAM
Creating content frequently is not enough, if you don’t focus on the quality.
In fact, there are more than 150 million articles on the web. The statistics also show that in every half second a fresh article is published.
So standing out in this competition is really hard and it becomes harder if you…
Original Research
BuzzSumo and Backlinko
· Original study ↗
Methodology
Study by BuzzSumo and Backlinko comparing articles over 3000 words vs under 1000 words
Methodology documented
Segmentation
Industrymarketing
Cite this stat
Plain Text
long-form articles: 77.2% backlinks acquired. Source: BuzzSumo and Backlinko (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/long-form-backlinks-77-2-percent
HTML Embed
<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/long-form-backlinks-77-2-percent" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>77.2%</strong> -- backlinks acquired for long-form articles<br><small>Source: BuzzSumo and Backlinko (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/long-form-backlinks-77-2-percent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
Share
Related Statistics
Use this data in your work
Copy the citation, embed the widget, or explore thousands more verified marketing statistics -- all free.