The ideal word count for a blog post? A quick search will tell you that articles between 1,200 and 1,700 words rank highest with Google. So that’s that then. From now on, all your blog posts will be longer than one thousand words, right? Not so fast. The magic number, let’s say 1,500 words for arguments sake, is misleading and here’s why. Just churning out long-form articles isn’t enough. Google doesn’t measure success by word count, a misapprehension that still lingers in ma