How many words per page for SEO?

Dean Richard [ Editor ] May 12, 2010 (Edited May 12, 2010)

It’s not, but it is effective. It gives you space to mention your keywords 3-6 times (1 keywords per 100 words is good), give a good summary of just about anything, and capture interest of the people who find your site. It will also leave readers wanting to know more- and will hopefully convert! If you really feel you need more than 600 words, break it out into another 600 word landing page and re-optimize. This will allow you to optimize for more terms, and be more specific in doing so. Remember, you never want to optimize for more than 3 terms per landing page.

Dean Richard

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Apple Marketing Dec 26, 2010

That’s true which is why guys like Yoast say you should move your popular posts into a page without comments and provide a link to an area where users can discuss…

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Michael Cyger [ Admin ] May 12, 2010 (Edited May 12, 2010)

I agree with Dean Richard. I will also say that search engines only index a certain amount of content per page. If your page went on for megabytes, the engine would only index the first X KB of data (not sure exactly how much). This is the reason why you should always put your most important information at the top of the page — and it works well with human readers as well…no one wants to read through a ton of information to find what they’re looking for! :)

In general I think 300-600 is a good range. Is it bad to go up to 1,000 if the single webpage is focused on a specific phrase, like “how to paint a car”, of course not. Use as much space as you need to make a fantastic reference. The better the content, the more inbound links you’ll have, the higher your page rank, the high in the search results your page will be.

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Paul Konrardy Jan 12, 2011

Something else to consider is the more you add pages to your site the deeper search spiders will index the site which could include more words on the page. This is especially true for those sites that have uploaded a sitemap or submitted urls to the search engine’s webmaster tools (Google)/toolbox (Bing)/resources (Yahoo).

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Marcelo Dec 24, 2010

Ok 300-660 words per page…But what if it was a blog post? Do the comments count? Won’t they fatally rise the counting of words?

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Load only N most recent comments and load the others RESTfully using Javascript. If you want your comments to get indexed, you can always generate sitemap containing comments-entries. Thanks.

Dec 25, 2010

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