"I keep hearing about long articles being better for SEO and bringing in more clicks and shares, is that a myth or does it have some merit in your opinion?"

I personally tend to think of an Article as being a minimum of 600 words with an optimum size being between 1600- 2500 anything smaller I refer to as a blog post with an optimum size being between 300- 500.

I regard blogs posts as being something that I will produce everyday whereas an article will take more time to put together. Longer article should aim to keep your readers on your site for around seven minutes on one particular subject during which time they can read around 1,600 words.

A blog may display say 3 smaller post totaling the same 1,600 words however the reader could be reading about a mixture of subjects which be confusing.

I read a blog post on another forum just the other day ,from a friend of mine, who actually writes content every day which he builds into articles or around 1,600 words and he has found this very effective for his SEO purposes I think I might even consider this approach myself in the future."

I am now starting to work on a new blog strategy which will also include posting a picture in my blog posts because as they say a picture can paint a thousand words and double the size of my normal blog posts to 600. Will also be making shorter posts on forums. My social media posts I will need further research  as this could be a big area of change and i have never really being happy with Facebook and how I use it..

Writing what I refer to as an article of 1,600 words which would appear to be optimum will take some planning and time. My writing style at the moment is that I tend to write how I speak and I prefer to say as little as possible. I will need to put structure and order into the content as thought it were a formal speechand also set aside the time to put it all together.