Article Length/Article Quantity on New Builds

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Since day 1 I've always started with 10-12 articles per site all targeting different keywords. All my articles are a minimum of 750 words. What is your starting requirements for articles on new sites? I'm looking to downsize some costs and am just wondering what others are doing when it comes to these factors.
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  • Profile picture of the author cool25
    It depends what your site type..if you choose to build an authority sites,then you must be prepared to make more than 10 articles, but if it is micro niche site, i suggest to add only 2-5 articles ...for the length of articles, the minimum requirement to meet excellent on page seo is 350 words, more long is better,i recommend 500 words articles length..
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  • Profile picture of the author MaryPabalates
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    The length of articles should be around 500 words, each mini sites at least 5 articles, if you want to purchase articles at affordable price then you can outsource services from Freelancer.com or Digital Point forum as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author J0hnnycl1ckz
    The sites I build are definitely considered micro niche sites. Thank you both for your responses. If I downsized to 500 word articles I could save upwards of $25 per site startup so I might go ahead and try that. Doesn't sound like a whole lot but that translates into 100s of dollars saved per month.
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  • Profile picture of the author AskJon
    With micro niche You'd be good with only 5 articles at first, the main one being 750-1000 and the other 500-750. That usually is how I start my sites and from there I expand my winners to 10+ pages if that's relevant but the goal is always to find the winners first and expand the one with more potential
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  • Profile picture of the author samual james
    it entirely depends on your niche, if you want to target more competitive niche then you need to go for more than 10 articles but if you are targeting micro niche then 5 would be better option for you. Article should contain 500 words and should be genuine.
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  • Profile picture of the author bob770
    The start of an article is with 350 words, this is just the normal requirement for an article. But its good that you are describing your articles at around 750 words.
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  • Profile picture of the author nichesitebasics
    Perhaps try to vary your article length depending on the topic, I don't mind have some 300 words posts for a basic keyword and then a 1000 word post for something more in depth.

    Just have as many words as is needed to explain the subject matter clearly.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kreative4
    It totally depends on your topic and niche. The perfect size is the "Enough Information to describe your title well". Figuratively i use 450+ words article
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  • Profile picture of the author C Rebecca
    Well, as such there is no criteria of article type, length or quality of new websites. But it is important for a new website to take special care of the quality, since, quality is what Google consider for ranking web pages.

    As far as length of article is concerned, make sure what you are writing is providing all the information without unnecessary jargon.
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  • Profile picture of the author PolluxMB
    200 words, one or two links with the correct anchor text and it works
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