StackHacks: One App you can Count on!
”How long should my newsletter post be?” Count your characters, words, sentences, paragraphs, reading time and keywords
It also counts characters, sentences, paragraphs, and even estimates the reading time for your articles, stories, advertisements - whatever you write. Plus the 4 most used keywords in your post.
What is the Optimum Word Count for Newsletters and Social Media Posts?
Today’s internet should be optimized for mobile-first. Therefore a lot of the skyscraper technique articles don’t read well on a phone screen. I get bored reading long content on a phone screen. Plus I have old eyes, which doesn’t help.
There is no right answer for the question ”How long should my newsletter post be”? Following are suggestions, maximums and minimums (if recommended). Best Answer: Optimal Article length - 1,450 words
“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.” ~ probably Winston Churchill
Maximum, Minimum, and Optimum Character counts (including spaces)
The average English Word count is 4.7 characters
Search Engine Optimization - Google (SEO):
Meta Title - 55
Meta Description - 160
Optimal Headline Length for Google - 49
Landing Pages Optimal- 500 words/ 2,350 characters
Substack:
Substack Main Single Line Headline - 40
Substack Sub Headline - 200
Substack Optimal Article length - 1,450 words/ 6,815 characters
Substack Max Article Length - unlimited * (email will truncate the article if it is too long…see (https://pau1.substack.com/p/stackhacks-too-long-for-email-message)
Substack Keyword Discovery Tags - max 3
Twitter:
Tweets – 280
DMs – 10,000 characters
Twitter handle – 15 characters
Profile name – 50 characters
Bio – 160 characters
Pinterest:
Profile name – 30 characters
Bio – 160 characters
Username – 30 characters
Pin Title - 100 characters
Board name – 50 characters
Pin and Board description – 500 characters
Facebook:
Username character limit – min. 5 characters max. 50 characters
Page description – 255 Characters
Facebook comments – 8,000 Characters
Posts - 63,206
Ideal - 50
Facebook Messenger Message - 20,000
Youtube:
Optimum Video Title - 70
Description - 5,000
Video title – 100 characters max
YouTube description – 5,000 characters
Playlist titles – 150 characters
YouTube tags – 500 characters total
Instagram:
Instagram bio character limit – 150 characters
Instagram username character limit – 30 characters
Hashtag limit - optimal - 1 to 10, max - 30
Ideal captions character count - 50
Visible caption count - 125
Max caption character count - 2,200
Ideal Caption Length - 50
LinkedIn:
First name – 20 characters
Last name – 40 characters
Status update (personal profile) – 1,300 characters
About/Summary – 2,000 characters
Company Page name – 100 characters
Company update – 700 characters
Company leaders headline – 150 characters
Company leaders description – 150 characters
Employee testimonials – 400 characters
Title of custom module – 150 characters
Recommendation – 3,000 characters
LinkedIn Publishing post headline – 100 characters
LinkedIn Publishing content length – 110,000 characters (23,000 + words)
See if you can write your posts in the ‘Blogger’s Word Counter", then copy/paste into your Substack Editor to format, add media, then publish.
Say you have a list of keywords that you are trying to rank for in your blog. This tool shows the top 4 keywords used as well.
Use it to write without distraction. No ads or anything to take away from the task at hand. It’s rewarding to watch your word count climb as you type.
Create a habit: If you have a daily goal for writing, say 1000 words per day, this lets you know if you are close to being finished.
If you’d like to use this application without the internet you can save the tool as a website (HTML) on your desktop:
Go to:
Right-click and view the page source
Copy and Save page source.
Paste the page source into a note or text file
rename it:
wordcounter.html instead of .txtsave it on your desktop. It is now a local file to use as you wish. 😀
If you are doing a lot of writing (a book) use this larger desktop version of the counter.
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