Where does Google say this?
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Just came across this article: http://www.searchmarketingstandard.com/tips-for-avoiding-thin-content
And, it states, "Google says that it will ignore pages with less than 200 words of body text "
I submitted a comment to the author, but was wondering in the meantime if anyone knows where Google says this?
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Thank you everyone for the great advice! That's what I thought, but just wanted to double check.
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Sounds like drivel, poppycock and shenanigans to me!
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A quick Google search proves that this is not at all true (like most online SEO advice ).
On the other hand, having 200 words of really strong content on a page can really help your rankings.
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That portion of the blog looks fishier than Rock's avatar. Just the idea of word limitations smacks of inviting SEO's to pad content with irrelevant hooey. I am curious to see if the author can come up with some legit attribution.
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I think that you should not take this as true.
It's weird because there are zillions of pages with relevant content that have less than 200 words, mainly news sites.
I'm used to write blog articles around 400 words, that is the standard size for a article.
But, you could ask the writer where did she get that info.
That's why you should put a link to the page where you picked informations.
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I can see where the writer is going however Google will crawl anything it just not rank it unless it has relevance enough to push past the freshness algo, if that was true how could some of these basic social posts rank with little content. Thin content is only one of thousands of parts to the algo.
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I find that very hard to believe, I have never heard of it.
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