Anyone suspect that a site's total page count affects SEO?
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I've been trying to find out the underlying reason why so many websites are ranked higher than mine despite seemingly having far worse links. I've spent a lot of time researching and have read through all the general advice about what could possibly be hurting my site's SEO, from page speed to h1 tags to broken links, and all the various on-page SEO optimization stuff....so the issue here isn't very obvious.
From viewing all of my competitors, they seem to have a much higher number of web pages on their sites than mine does. My site currently has 20 pages or so and most of my competitors are well in the hundreds, so I'm wondering if this could potentially be part of the issue here. I know Google has never officially said that page number matters, but does anyone suspect that perhaps page count matters towards SEO and that competing sites with more total pages than you might have an advantage SEOwise?
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John Mueller of Google recently discussed this topic...
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-higher-page-count-seo-26633.html
Amazon has millions and millions of pages. They can be beaten for commercial queries with a 20 page site. If your 20 pages are bursting with some of the internet's best information for your topic, and visitors engage your site and ask for it by name, then you can beat Amazon with 20 pages.
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