Does 200 word article affect the SEO of my site?

Hi All,

I had a doubt. Generally i make sure that my articles are at least 250 words each or more.

But lately i was wondering, does it matter if the articles on my site are just 200 words each? Will that affect SEO of my site and will the traffic reduce? Will search Engine treat it lower valued than bigger articles??

I require answer to this as soon as possible. Experts, please comment.

 

Google will sent wolves to eat you if you post anything that is less than 249 words.
Of course.


What do you think? Really?

 

depends on content not length of article...content should be unique and impressive... its very well for seo

 

what do you mean?

 

well its a long time fact that unique content is good for seo, but how about the size of article? does it matter?

Ain't there anyone who can answer that with facts?

 

Pretty sure Google won't care... They scan sites one word at a time. So even there are 10 words or 10,000 they will all help in SEO IF they are relevant

 

I have heard that it is actually best to keep your articles smaller for the sake of having more titles, descriptions and tags on separate pages.

I am sure there is a limit to how small or how many small posts you have, not sure though but I have seen 200 word articles do just fine in a blog.

 

Are there examples of sites where content is very small yet they do excellent in Search Engines?

 

it's fine as long as you dont take the micky with article legnth, obviously google doesn't want a site with 1million pages and 3 words on each, use discression if an article needs to be long then it needs to be long, try to focus more on regularity of updating and the readability not on how long the article is.

 

the more content, the more chance search engines likes it and pick keyphrases to rank good.

But I also heard the story of wolves. My first website had 230 words articles and one nigth i saw a van of google at the corner of my street. I believe they were watching me.

 

The length of your postings don't matter. If your site has good content and user experience you
will do fine. Some blog posting are very short and concise.

Best Wishes

 

If you're making a minisite with just a few pages then you need to make sure there is a decent amount of content on each page, but if it's something like a blog then 200 words posts are fine, some people are starting to do frequent short posts rather than weekly long posts as Google loves regular content (I know this because I get requests nearly every day for 100x150 word articles etc.)

 

I can't find some related aspect on the number of words, google will just release bots or spiders to crawl every pages if they see you got good rich content they love to visit those but if you got poor content and got lot of text what would like to happen?

 

Google only bother whether the content is unique or not if your content is unique and relevant of course you will get profit form it. Google scan each word so it's doesn’t matter lent of article

 

I think it's a major issue when it comes to article length but the important is your article content.

 

What was this? was it just to increase your post count??

Can i have genuine suggestions and comments please.

 

Size does matter and if you write very short articles with no meaniful value, it will hurt your SEO. Think about it this way, good on page search engine optimization will have the following key points:
H1 Tag
H2 Tag
H3 Tag
Keyword in first sentence
Keyword bold at least once in article
Keyword underlined at least once in article
Keyword italic at least once in article
Then you need good keyword density in the article
I can you perform all of this is a very short article and expect it to get a good ranking.

 

The sky will fall and Earth will stop turning... oh, and of course:

The length is not important unless you use it on a mini-site, because search engines will consider that it does not present sufficient substance. But if it is posted on an article site or a blog... no huhu.

 

Size of the article surely doesn't matter as long as it is unique. It is only the content that matters and not the size.

 

I would rather believe its the content that is important but what you will have to worry is how to squeeze quality content in a 200 word article. Also depends on what type of site you have. If its a News or Tips site, 200 will do, but if its an analysis kind of website, 200 is not enough because people will come to your site to read.