Limit for words on a page?
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Some SEOs might say that there is no such thing as too much good content. Do you try to limit the words on a page to under a certain number for any reason?
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I like long pages. I have one longish article that is followed by over 500 comments which makes for a REALLY long page. The comments bring in a huge amount of long tail traffic!
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I have never limited the amount of content. In fact, I always write the highest quality and relevant content I can. Since I do this, I don't run into an issue of having thin content. ALSO, I have never really tried to "optimize" for search engines. Instead, I optimize for conversions.
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I have some articles that go 4000 to 5000 words accompanied by up to ten images, two videos, tables of data and reference lists that link out to many other websites.
These are some of the best performing pages on my sites.
These long pages provide broad and deep coverage of single topics and information about that topic that appeals to many people... .and the volume of long-tail keywords that these pages attract surprises me.
Although these pages rank in the top three positions on google for their root keyword the long tail traffic exceeds the head traffic by over an order of magnitude. That can vary depending upon the sophistication of searchers and diversity of subtopics in the niche.
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I usually never limit it. I let the content writer decide based on how / what the topic is and I try not to restrict them to a certain word count. Short article or long, it should serve the purpose it's being written for and if it's for the user, which is what it should be, it should cover the article title in the right way and do justice to it.
I hope that helps.
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