Optimum words per page?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by pictureboarduk, Jul 31, 2009.

  1. #1
    Hi,

    I've wrote a series of articles, and each has approximately 2500 words.

    I was wondering if it may may be a mistake to place each article in a single web page?

    Perhaps I should break them up?

    Thanks for any advice, it's most appreciated.
     
    pictureboarduk, Jul 31, 2009 IP
  2. willybfriendly

    willybfriendly Peon

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    #2
    If it is below the fold there is a fair chance it will not be read by your visitors.

    I would break them up into 300-500 word chunks.
     
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    #3
    I would break them into 500 words just as site size matters in a lot of ways,

    the more pages the better. just use a "continue" link

    at the end to move to the next part on a different page.
     
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    pictureboarduk Well-Known Member

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    Does 'the fold' mean below the screens visible resolution, ie: a visitor would have to scroll down to see the rest of the articles?

    Thanks for the advice, that would mean breaking them up quite a lot, but perhaps Google etc would rank my site higher if I have more smaller pages, rather than a few large ones.
     
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  5. Dan Schulz

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    I'm going to step out of the squared SEO circle for a moment and think like a copywriter. Hope you don't mind.

    "The optimal number of words per page is simply when there are no more words to add and no more words to take away."
     
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    I will break them to 300~500words per page.
    if the article is too long ,vistors will not read it.I am that person
     
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    From an SEO perspective there is no such thing as an optimal words per page. Perhaps from a usability perspective there is as others have implied... "Less per page is more".

    But strictly speaking from an SEO perspective, long 2500 word articles can rank equally as well as short 200-300 word articles can rank if they are focused on the topic targeted by the primary keyword phrase from the <title>.

    If you do break the 2500-3000 word articles up, I would try to break them up into logical parts that can target slightly different keyword phrases. Have the portion of that article that appears on any given page focus on a slightly different keyword phrase targeted in the <title>, <h1>, etc. of that page.

    For example, if your article is about <h1>Car Maintenance</h1> and you have 4 sub-divisions of the article about <h2>Spring Car Maintenance</h2>, <h2>Summer Car Maintenance</h2>, <h2>Fall Car Maintenance</h2>, and <h2>Winter Car Maintenance</h2> then I would suggest breaking the article into 5 pages...

    1) Car Maintenance - Summarize what can be found on the other 4 pages with links to the other 4 pages of the articles with targeted link text.
    2) Spring Car Maintenance - link to other 4 pages w/ targeted link text
    3) Summer Car Maintenance - link to other 4 pages w/ targeted link text
    4) Fall Car Maintenance - link to other 4 pages w/ targeted link text
    5) Winter Car Maintenance - link to other 4 pages w/ targeted link text

    Use the bolded topics above as the <title> and <h1> on each of the pages. Use the bolded topics above (or slight variations) when interlinking between the 5 pages. By having all 5 pages of the article linking to one another with the target keyword phrase from the page being linked to as the link text, you have relevant pages linking to other pages with link text containing the targeted keyword phrase. You create a little cluster of related pages.
     
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  8. Casey

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    #8
    Yes you are right.

    Put only one article on 1 page.

    It will improve your page relevance.

    If you want to learn more about internet marketing and SEO, go to internet-marketing-notion.blogspot.com

    Feel free to contact me if you want more help
     
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    1000 to 2000 words per page is good in article but it should be informative
     
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    Breaking is great for relevance, and it's also a lot safer.
     
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    Yes, that is what it means. There have been usability studies shwoing that people do not like to scroll more than a couple of screens down.

    This is one reason why so many news outlets break their articles up into shorter snippets. (The other is more advertising space.)

    I once witnessed a non-tech savvy person looking for a needed link on the US Postal Service website, which she could not find, and over which she was become increasingly frustrated - to the point of cussing about it. The link was about three lines below the fold, and quite obvious when I showed her. Turned out she did not know how to scroll the screen down - had no idea what the scroll bar was or did.

    This was only about 1 1/2 years ago, and was a real eye opener for me...
     
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