I've got some blog pages that have like 900 words, some like 1200. I was wondering if you guys think that making them into extra pages is a good idea.One thought is that for SEO you got more words on a page that could give good keyword density. But at the same time you get less page views too. What do you guys think? I use wordpress for my blog stuff and also am thinking of drupal
I think SEO should win over pageviews in this case. Having the whole post in one webpage / URL means all the relevant keywords are in one place. Also, as you mentioned, the keyword density would be good. This would mean: Good SEO >> better search engine results >> more visitors >> more page views in the long term!! Also, all the details of the topic would be covered at one place, which means that it provides a better user experience
I wouldn't split the pages myself. Keeping each topic together will give the article more focus. If you split the pages then you have to make sure every page has a unique title and description. If you don't you'll see only the first page in the sequence rank in the search engines. Google tends to focus on what they this is a good "landing page" for a topic when you don't have unique titles and descriptions.
I agree... I would leave it a single page UNLESS there is a way to break it into say 2 logical sections where each section is about a subtopic and can therefore appear on separate pages and target separate keyword phrases. For example... If the post is about "Car Maintenance Tips" and you have 500 words about "Winter Car Maintenance Tips" and 500 words about "Summer Car Maintenance Tips" then possibly I would consider pagenating it and have each page targeting one of the 2 subtopics.
Are you trying to use more feature from wordpress. You should use it on all posts. This is one of the best ways to get rid of duplicate content if you have already taken care of tags, categories and archive pages. Your homepage and other post list pages should only have first few sentences from the post and after a more tag you should have rest of the content that's only displayed on post page. If your article is huge, you might want to split it in two and monitor how many people go to the second page.
Thanks guys. Great answers. Fortunately I did exactly what you guys suggested from the start. I made each article have a few parts. I could do that because they weren't reviews, you know the kind where they have like 6 different sections that can include many short pages? Mine are more like faqs. I split them up into threes and then put in a link to the second part of the article. I hate hardcoding like that but it works for this application and I'll use a bad link checker in case i ever move it.