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Is number of words in your post important for ranking?

by fated82
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Hi all, I am planning to rank for long tail keywords and in order to do that, I need a bunch of articles. I normally purchase them for $7 per 800-900 words. Thing is, I can now get 500 words article for just $3 a piece.

Was wondering if the number of words is an important factor for ranking on Google? Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author rosesmark
    No but remember the keywords density in article. Sometime users add keyword out of limit if Google found then Google treat your articles as a spam.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hossain
    Word number is not the problem as long as your article quality is good. Its all about number of high voltage backlinks. You can spread 150 word good quality articles with contextual backlinks over several good web 2.0/article directories/wiki sites. As you are paying for every article so you can easily purchase unique articles. In this way even 150 word unique good quality articles would be good enough.

    PS: You can purchase some seed articles and then spin using a good spinning tool to get big chunk of spun articles. But I always prefer unique and good quality articles. Coz in this way I can do two stuffs simultaneously. SEO and Advertising.
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  • Profile picture of the author abbeynism
    i think rosemark made a point. for good optimization let your post content have at least 400 words with your keyword at the back of your mind. I mean you should have a keyword rich and well written content.
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    • Profile picture of the author scottmacair
      500 word length is fine. More important is the content of the article. A quality article may include:

      • OBL to similar niche authority sites
      • OBL to relevant Wikipedia / Youtube pages etc
      • Images
      • Related comments
      • Comments where the name links back to authority sites
      • An absence of bad grammar
      • High readability score
      • Good use of text decoration and formatting
      • Social media options
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  • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
    If you can add up some 1000 words on each article - as long as it makes sense and it's informative - you won't regret it. And thats a fact. Longer articles get more out of google in the long run.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ashera
      Originally Posted by Fernando Veloso View Post

      If you can add up some 1000 words on each article - as long as it makes sense and it's informative - you won't regret it. And thats a fact. Longer articles get more out of google in the long run.
      Fernando is spot on. This is truly what Google is looking for nowadays.
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  • Profile picture of the author socialbookmark
    Try to keep density of keywords something about 3-5 %. Also its not the only important factor. There are many other factors too. For exampel you should make powerful backlinks for your articles too to rank in top results.
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    • Profile picture of the author scottmacair
      Originally Posted by socialbookmark View Post

      Try to keep density of keywords something about 3-5 %. Also its not the only important factor. There are many other factors too. For exampel you should make powerful backlinks for your articles too to rank in top results.
      This advice is totally outdated. Do you really think that in 2012 keyword density of 3-5 % will help you rank and can be viewed as an 'important SEO factor'

      Keyword density hasn't been an important SEO factor for years.
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  • Profile picture of the author JKflipflop
    I agree - a good keyword density coupled with contextual backlinks should usually do the trick. Also, make the best out yourself by benchmarking results of whatever you are submitting, over shorter time intervals.
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  • Profile picture of the author quercus5
    Long, high quality articles are never a bad thing! I try to do 500 words minimum on my blog with some shorter ones every once in a while. Important not to ramble though, I think even google knows when you're starting to BS!
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