Is there such a thing as too much content?

Is there such a thing as too much content for any page?

I want to know if having like 5 articles on one page, maybe 1000 words each will cause problems?

These are only the introductions also.

They are on my home page.

 

No problem, but you probably already know that search engines do stop after a bit - all of your content will not be indexed. I don't know the exact limit, but I wouldn't expect anything past the first 200 words to be spidered.

 

200 words?? I'm pretty sure they snag a lot more than that. Here is a search for the last sentence in a 2,800 word wikipedia article on SEO.

Google and yahoo are able to locate the article by searching for the last sentence. MSN is only able to find the article when searching for a sentence a few paragraphs deep.

 

I think it will not cause any problem to 1000 keywords but sometimes the reader is not reading the contents if it is too
long. I suggest that you write at least 500 words to 1 article.
The article must be related to your site.

 

too much unique contents = good
too much duplicated contents = bad

Google bots also crawl more than 200 words per page but most important keywords shoud be kept in first 500 words to make it best.

 

I dont think you can have too much content, the more the better right now. Its not gonna help though if the page filesize gets past a certain point. Like others have said it will just cut off.

 

I think It doesn't matter if your content is long as long as it is informative to your reader.

 

It won't be to Search Engines' benefit to limit content.
But I guess the limitation is their own resources and whether it can contain and management so much info.

 

I stand (sit) corrected - I guess it's just MSN that stops at a certain point.

 

No Problems. Go ahead. I think Google crawls first 101 kb of your html (Image files excludes)

 

But wouldn't it be more beneficial by posting a snippet of each with a keyword link to read more? Also, I may not be an average surfer, but I hate to scroll, and scroll, and scroll...but that's just me

 

i think it will matter in ranking as u know that if your page size increase than u get some negative points.
as u add more content your page size will increase and it will take more time when u open that page.so there is a chances of lose ranking

 

What about if I have pages..

Lets say I have 4-5 articles per page,
Each article is only a snippet, then at the bottom of each page I have a Previous and Next.

Does this cause a problem of dplicate content?
Because when an article moves from page 1, to page 2, will the SE see that the URL is actually different and its been on two different pages?

This is a good example:

http://www.invision-gaming.co.uk/Counter-Strike-Source-23-Page1.html

I am showing two listings per page, what happens when they get pushed back to the second page, or the third, do they search engines see that its been on lots of different URLs and thin its duplicae content so it becomes worthless?


Can you get duplicate content issues when the content is on your own site?

 

Well I'm sure they all stop at some point. I'll bet they max out after reading so many lines of code rather than number of words. If that is the case I would worry about my code to content ratio when publishing a lot of content.

 

Okay, sorry for all these rapid questions lately, I promise there wont be any more, Ha, well anyway.

This is the situation.

http://www.invision-gaming.co.uk/

As you can see, I am displaying ANY content from any of my sections. (I have populated some junk content at the moment cause I havent written anything), but just to show you, I am displaying 2 content per page (dont confuse the thing at the bottom, thats a notification which stays for 7 days)

Anyway, how should I link to the second page?
I mean is www.invision-gaming.co.uk/Page2.html

The best thing to do?
Or www.invision-gaming.co.uk/Latest-Content-Page2.html

I honestly have no idea for this. All the content will be whatever I chose form my CMS to display.

Thanks.

Also, I display the navigation for previous and next twice, once at the top and again at the bottom, does this affect anything?

 

I could just cloak the two navigation?

Bad Bad?

 

In any case, your content is good enough for 10-11 pages if you split each of your articles by half. You can have so much more SE exposure than have on a single page.
Next, having a snippet on the first page is not a bad idea though, linking them (to the next page, of course) must be better with secondary keyword than have something like page2, page3 and so on.

 

I am not an expert but I normally put a few sentences and than I put read more and put the whole article on a seperate page depending on the size of the article.

You can see I did this on my main page www.frugalwiz.com

 

Wikipedia can do what they want because they've got some bonkers page strength. I've found SE's only index what they feel important.

Here's an article explaining msn, yahoo and google indexing depth.

 

You're on the right track, but if you really want to get more traffic, how about instead of using read more, try using some good anchor text like, hidden treasures. Unless you are really targetting people searching for "read more"? But even I wouldn't have deep enough pockets to compete with that crowd Get it?