How many of you believe that 100 words article is enough for SEO?

@dmvictoria

Thanks! I'm still thinking of and searching for a proper social networking strategy that works. I really don't like Social Networking all that much, I think it's great if you're a huge company but a waste of time for the other 99% of website owners. Here are some of the problems I see with social networking.

• rel=nofollow on all your links or the walled garden of Facebook
• Waste of resources: I would rather have my clients write articles instead of spending time reposting the same things to Twitter, Facebook etc.
• If you're not an entertainer it's hard to get a truly significant number of followers (1 millions +) since most businesses use social networking in an attempt to sell things to their followers / fans / readers / ect and this should be done through newsletters or the website itself.
• Social networking is unstable: Look at the demise of Digg when compared to the rise of Twitter and Facebook, I don't like investing time into sites that won't be relevant or supplanted in 5 years (I know Facebook will stand the test of time but what about every other social media site?).
• Social media is too ego driven with clients trying to get the most "likes" or the most "followers" ect, the web is for the customer not your site, see "Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015"

Those are just some of the challenges I'm trying to figure out but hopefully I'll develop a solid systematic way to tackle it by early next year, if anyone has one please let me know.

And to make this post relevant to the question of 100 words, it's easy to see that social networking has a huge problem with this. Content you post eventual gets overwritten by new content on Facebook, and you can't post super long messages on twitter i.e. 140 characters and you get no link credit because you need to use services like bit.ly and they nofollow all your links.

Virgil

 

It depends. The value of one article is not judged by the length of it, but the attraction. If one short article is very nice and many people like it, I think such one is successful!

 

From what I've seen Google will use the links even if your article is around 50 words.

 

Ya, its ok

 

100 for short and focused blog posts is ok ... but articles? I'd rather go with 400 to 500.

 

Well guys, here is an update. I posted a 51 word article, and guess what, within a week, i am getting 2 visitors on the same article. Ain't the surprising?