Hey everyone,

This makes perfect sense. We'll focus on the quality of the blog post and not necessarily on making it long for the long tail.

Does the same thing apply to regular articles?

I'll close this soon. Thanks!

Hello,

We're adding a blog to one of our sites.

How many words should be in a blog post for it to be optimal for the search engines? If it varies from industry to industry, please give a couple of examples.

We were going to do 500 words but that seems a bit long.

Thanks!

Ryan,

I value your opinion and Anthony's too.

I will relay the information to my client.

Thank you Anthony,

I've had luck with this in the past since it's sitewide.

but I value the SEOMoz metrics.

Any further information you can provide would be great.

Hello,

The strongest site in our industry (according to domain authority and excluding wikipedia) said that they would put a sitewide link to us in their footer. We're good friends with them.

It would be right next to the copyright.

Our site is nlpca (dot) com

The partner site is nlpu (dot) com

The link will say something like "More NLP Training" with the "NLP" as the link. We're targeting the keyword "NLP"

How much will this move us up for the keyword "NLP"? Right now we're on the 3rd page for that term.

I also want to make sure that it's a white hat move.

Thanks!

Hello,

For both ecommerce and sites that sell services, I've seen a lot of people recommending a blog for SEO.

Should this blog be inside or separate from the main website for the most results?

I can see how adding one to a site would create more unique content and an opportunity for link bait, but perhaps there is a reason to have a blog separate from the main site

Thank you.