lots of pages or only a couple?

[harrysidhu]

From your guys experience what converts and hold the visitors attention better a couple good written pages with your product or more of a multi paged website with lots of info and a lot going on, i mean like 7 or more pages, any advice appreciated thanks.

[TheDebtEliminator]

It has been explained by a SEO guru - to me in order to get a decent organic rating a website of 5-pages is necessary

[harrysidhu]

so anything less than 5 is bad for seo, how about websites that are ranked #1 that are nothing more than one review page?

[harrysidhu]

so does the number of pages make a difference to seo and ranking high in google?

[David]

Originally Posted by harrysidhu

so does the number of pages make a difference to seo and ranking high in google?

Originally Posted by TheDebtEliminator

It has been explained by a SEO Goober - to me in order to get a decent organic rating a website of 5-pages is necessary

That particular tidbit of advice is just plain wrong.

Before I got webhosting and installed wordpress my main site was a single sales page on a dynamic generated site and it ranks #1 in the world for my niche:
Local Google Advertising

Google that, look where Google is, now look where I am.
... and what you're looking at is a single page brochure style website with no RSS, no blog, no nothing

just industrial strength link building

[harrysidhu]

yeah that's what i thought because that wouldn't be fair for everyone I mean not everyone needs tons of pages, thanks for clearing that up dude.

[David]

Originally Posted by harrysidhu

yeah that's what i thought because that wouldn't be fair for everyone I mean not everyone needs tons of pages, thanks for clearing that up dude.

At the risk of hijacking this thread could you please check a serp for me?
I cant believe my eyes (and am wondering if what Google is showing me is what I want to see and NOT what everyone else sees...)

Google this:
local organic search

I'm seeing that I'm #4, #5 and #6 out of 30,000,000 sites ???

tell me you see that too...

[harrysidhu]

are u bigfin i see at number 1

[Tyrus Antas]

The more pages you'll have, the more the attention of the reader will drift. The less choice, the more likely they are to take the action you want them to take.

Tyrus

[Adrian Cooper]

Originally Posted by harrysidhu

so does the number of pages make a difference to seo and ranking high in google?

It depends on your objectives.

If you are creating a massive information site - which is what the web is for from Google's perspective, the big site will always get better rankings.

But is is a fact, from an IM perspective, that a site needs to be highly targeted and not engage the visitor with information not relevant to selling the product.

So the issue is what is the balance between SEO and IM?

I would say between 5 and 10 pages.

The trick is though to keep the links in a place not immediately obvious to the visitor. Google only sees the HTML so will always find the links, but they can still be very obscure through a web browser - not too obscure though, they still need to be legitimately accessible.

Never attempt to trick Google. Google is our friend.

[harrysidhu]

yeah especially when your selling a product, what do you think works better. Reviewing a few products or having a sales page for one?

[Flyingpig7]

So what are you saying? (Tyrus, I think Adam is right) If I have 30-60 or more articles on my site, some on separate pages that it's distracting for the reader in spite their all being relevant to the site.
I cannot really see how this is harmful I would have thought this was very good for SEO.
The more relevant it is the better it's something I've heard time & time again on the forum. I am fairly new to this but have a few sites that I am busy writing articles for.
Clarity would be appreciated thanks.

Keren