People new to article marketing often wonder how long these articles should be. My first consideration is always the requirements by the article directory I’m submitting to. Most of them require a minimum of 250 to 300 words. Use it as the lower end of your word count range. Please remember that this is the requirement for the article body only. Titles and Author Resource Boxes do not count toward the minimum word requirement.

As far as maximum lenght go, I try to stay under 500 words. If my article gets much longer than that, I split it into two parts and now have two articles to submit.