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Prestige
01-16-2006, 03:45 PM
First I would like to say I really enjoy using these sort of titles.
I experiment the user behaviour in the forum. heh

To the point..
As time goes by, I get more educated and connected to what is needed to be
made in my websites to assure the best user experience is achived while
making sure to get the most out of my optimization.

My content is by far better than my competitors, it is easilly read, informative
and descriptive. but as my content got better, my articles became bigger.
Some articles are 1000 words length, some can reach 2k...

Should I consider doing some changes at my site to cut the content into
several pages? in the readers point of view, it looks just fine.

But what about keyword density and length of text in a single page?
I've read alot about it in the past and Im sure most i've read of is not
updated and/or missleading. Anyone cares to comment?

Robert_Charlton
01-16-2006, 04:38 PM
Prestige - For nuts and bolts optimization, product pages and the like, I generally try to keep pages down around 250 words. Sometimes I go down to 125 words... sometimes up to 500. In general, I've felt that if an article gets too long, it gets hard to focus. Very long articles, as you suspect, are often best split up according to subtopics, and relevant (non-experimental ;) ) titles applied.

On some sites, though, I've set out to create authoritative articles, to be seen as best-of-their-kind resources on the web. Whether I've written them or a subject matter expert has written them, I've found that these usually go over 1,000 words, generally ending up at around 1,200. That's the length that feels right, at least to me, for this kind of article. I'm talking about well written, well edited copy.

Obviously, there's no single rule. Some subjects can be handled in a paragraph... some demand a book. Often, you'll see that there are plenty of 300 word articles online on a topic, mostly fluff, and that for an authoritative kind of article, a certain amount of critical mass is needed. This assumes that you have something to say.

If your thousand-word articles stay on topic, and that length works, then keep them. But do look at your articles critically, to see if they would gain via increased title exposure if you do split them up. On some multi-part articles, you can have it both ways... gaining links for the main topic via an introduction and your first section, and then getting increased relevance for the sub-topics by splitting these off as continuations.

Prestige
01-17-2006, 03:22 AM
Often, you'll see that there are plenty of 300 word articles online on a topic

Sure there are alot of 200-400 words articles. I also rememmber reading
once that google likes them that way. which makes no sense to me..
(If anyone can proove that it is so, let me know)

As said, some of my article are about 1000-2000 words and I wouldnt want
to reduce the count or split them only for search engines. there's just no logic
in doing so.

But my question remains the same.
Is the length of text combined with the right keyword density appears
better to search engines like google?