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Niche Sites - One Page with 5000 words or 10 Pages with 500 words? Any Diff?

by davidtong
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I'm curious. We all read about 'thin' sites and content...

Are there any differences in terms of how Google ranks and 'sees' your site?

Other than human usability, is there anything wrong with a looooong single page site or will the multi-page site benefit from cross-links within the site?
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  • Profile picture of the author Starfusion
    Originally Posted by davidtong View Post

    I'm curious. We all read about 'thin' sites and content...

    Are there any differences in terms of how Google ranks and 'sees' your site?

    Other than human usability, is there anything wrong with a looooong single page site or will the multi-page site benefit from cross-links within the site?

    The more pages the easy to rank for longtail keywords, one article/blog post can target those smaller keywords that get 100+ searches a month, just by grabbing 10 smaller keywords with 50 visits a month each, thats an extra 500 extremely targeted visits a month.
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  • Profile picture of the author EconomicalDomains
    I would definitely go with the 10 pages with 500 words. The more pages are better for the search engines and you can concentrate on different keywords and phrases for each page.

    Also, no one wants to read through an extremely long 5000 word page in most cases and it would be easier to maintain the user if you spread the content over more pages in my opinion.
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  • Profile picture of the author davidtong
    the 5000 is just a hypothetical number...

    so for search engines, the # of pages count as well, is that what we're concluding? The doorway analogy made a lot of sense...
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    • Profile picture of the author Efryll
      I think google started to slap one-page websites.
      Nowadays, It's better to go for bigger sites with more relevant and useful pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author LMC
    You want more pages...

    each page targeting a keyword or two and a bunch of LSI
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  • Profile picture of the author joba1984
    i would recommend multiple pages targetting different keywords so you have the chance to rank for multiple keywords, i have found that you will get lots of long tail keyphrase searches if you target more keywords.

    You also have to factor in what the site is all about. if its a review site then you are only going to have a couple of pages where as if you are trying to build a long term project and turn it into an authority then you want to be adding multiple pages regularly
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  • Profile picture of the author dannypayton
    I'd go for more pages rather than just one big page. Because you can focus on more keywords therefor you will rank for more keywords. The keywords don't have to be with a huge competition so that you can rank easier. A little SEO work on all those pages and you have a good amount of targeted visitors monthly.
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  • Profile picture of the author mandom
    I definitely vote for multiple pages. As others said, you're more likely to pick up additional LTs, plus it makes your site look more legit and professional. Most people don't want to read a wall of text so you'll lose your readers vs. having smaller, easy to read articles on multiple pages. To me, single page sites say that the person who did the site didn't know what they were doing so why should I trust their info?
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  • Profile picture of the author gbengaijotan
    I personally would go for multiple pages. I am currently building a niche site that revolves around "mens health issue" and already created few articles of about 350-500 words targetted to 3 long tail keywords.

    I doubt if i couldhave done that with a one page thin site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kai Kennedy
    Not to beat a dead horse, but I also target long-tail keywords with posts averaging around 350 - 400 words.

    Based on LMC's epic post last year, I tend to target "clusters" of associated keywords that I can rank very easily for. Have my VA crank out 3-5 350-400 keyword-rich articles. Then start my backlink camaign.

    After I start getting traffic, I'll target more keywords based on the search patterns I start seeing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    What I do is test. Here's what I found ...

    If the content is tightly focused around one topic, then one long page will get a higher PageRank than several short pages. However, there is another component, and that's the actual rank of the page in the serps for your keyword. Here I've found the shorter pages often outrank the longer pages.

    Now, that's with limited testing so these are not definitive results. Just trying to give you a couple things to think about and to encourage to test for yourself rather than just relying on the opinions and experieces of others. Even if they test everything, you won't do things exactly like they would so your results could vary, perhaps dramatically.
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  • Profile picture of the author WebPen
    Why not both?

    If you're using a Wordpress site, you can just have like 10 or 15 posts all posted on the front page- at 500 words each that's 5,000 to 7,500 words total.

    But then you also have more gateways to your site by having more posts that can get ranked.
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesGw
    10 posts with 500 words targeting 10 keywords.

    5 posts per page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mcoroklo
    I would say 1000 posts at 500 words would be better! ;-)

    Today huge sites with a big authority is the winners - Not small sites with long tail keywords.
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    • Profile picture of the author Justin Says
      Originally Posted by Mcoroklo View Post

      I would say 1000 posts at 500 words would be better! ;-)

      Today huge sites with a big authority is the winners - Not small sites with long tail keywords.
      I agree and disagree.

      While the site with 1000 posts of 500 words may seem like it would do better, it also has to be organized.

      I have a niche website with only 5 pages that profits much more than one of my sites that has 100 pages (as an example). That's because it's straight to the point.

      But that's not to say a large website can't be profitable. I just think it's wise to make sure you work in organization when you plan on having a website with that many posts.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark watling
    More page with more keywords have always been useful and they generate traffic easily as more visitors visit their site and this is way too useful and get generated a high pr on page as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author abubakar89
    go with 10 pages ........... that will give you extra traffic
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