Can I get punished for having text too small?

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13 years ago

It depends what you think is too small. Personally I never use content that is has less than 350-400 words.

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dburk 13 years ago

Hi matrixv,

By "text too small" do you mean small fonts?

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SimpleSEOTips

13 years ago

Originally Posted by matrixv

Can my site be punished for having a paragraph of text too small?

I really don't think you can be penalised for this. However, content is king, and if you don't provide enough content for Google to know what your page is attempting to rank for then you will have difficulty ranking well within the search results.

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C Rebecca 13 years ago

Probably not... I have seen many websites in micro-blogging format.

It completely depends on the requirement of your website's content.

But make, if its short, it should be enough informative.
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- willium4 13 years ago
  
  You mean to say font size. If font size is too small that affects user to read and user avoid your site. It may result in decrease the traffic. So, always use the proper text size which able to user to read.
  
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nicktyler

13 years ago

I was thinking you must mean small fonts in which case oyu probably can get penalised because if your text is very small it provides a bad user experience and is not very accessible.

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matrixv

13 years ago

Yea I meant font size im sorry guys. My whole homepage is pretty much going to be pretty long and informative but I want to add a paragraph with small text pretty much explaining what google searches we can be found at lol. Is that a noob move? I derno Im a noob so thats why im asking before i do it.

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nettech4

13 years ago

Originally Posted by matrixv

Yea I meant font size im sorry guys. My whole homepage is pretty much going to be pretty long and informative but I want to add a paragraph with small text pretty much explaining what google searches we can be found at lol. Is that a noob move? I derno Im a noob so thats why im asking before i do it.

If the font size is too small to read, it is treated as a black hat trick and punishable by Google. If the font size is enough to read then no problem.

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paulgl

13 years ago

Originally Posted by matrixv

Yea I meant font size im sorry guys. My whole homepage is pretty much going to be pretty long and informative but I want to add a paragraph with small text pretty much explaining what google searches we can be found at lol. Is that a noob move? I derno Im a noob so thats why im asking before i do it.

That's your problem. You don't want a long and informative main page.
Instead of tiny text that nobody can read, split it into multiple pages.
It's better for visitors and SEO.

There is no reason to make a page like that unless it's a squidoo lens or
similar.

Paul

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dburk

13 years ago

Originally Posted by matrixv

Yea I meant font size im sorry guys. My whole homepage is pretty much going to be pretty long and informative but I want to add a paragraph with small text pretty much explaining what google searches we can be found at lol. Is that a noob move? I derno Im a noob so thats why im asking before i do it.

Hi matrixv,

As long as you font no smaller than 8pt you should be fine.

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faysal969

13 years ago

Originally Posted by matrixv

Can my site be punished for having a paragraph of text too small?

Google panda is for removing duplicate and poor content. If your articles be very small, then they may affected by Google Panda.

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wickedinnovation

13 years ago

I'm getting confused with the question. Is it your font size or the content of your site? If the font size. I wonder that too.

If the content, I think no. It doesn't matter how much text you want to put on your site.

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C Rebecca

13 years ago

I have no idea how SEs going to deal with small font, but if I were your user I would immediately hop away from the page...
Why would I strain my eyes for your content when I can find the information on many other competing websites?

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enni

Banned 13 years ago

I don't think that you are going to penalized with the too small contents. You are going to penalized with the duplicate contents. So always write quality, original and topic related contents.