What is the minimum word count of an article to be complaint with Adsense TOS?

14 years ago

since when does adsense care how many words are on the page? for example someone's contact page might only have like 30 words on...this would be breaking the TOS to have ads on this page? I highly doubt it

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yukon

Banned 14 years ago

There is no minimum word count per Adsense page. I have 2,000+ Adsense pages that average around 1 sentence of content text per page (not a typo) on 5-6 year old sites.

The world doesn't revolve around articles, that only happens on WF.

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seo2ever

14 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

There is no minimum word count per Adsense page. I have 2,000+ Adsense pages that average around 1 sentence of content text per page (not a typo) on 5-6 year old sites.

The world doesn't revolve around articles, that only happens on WF.

Is this means if I wrote 100 words per Adsense page it will be normal?

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Mike Anthony 14 years ago

Originally Posted by seo2ever

Is this means if I wrote 100 words per Adsense page it will be normal?

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If you mean 100 words and only one hundred words come on - you know the answer
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yukon Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by seo2ever

Is this means if I wrote 100 words per Adsense page it will be normal?

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Normal for me or normal for you, because I don't do articles & you do (according to OP)?

Articles are only popular here on WF because most folks got hooked on meeting article directory requirements (EZA, etc...) in order to drop backlinks, which somehow was misinterpreted along the way as being the only way to earn money with Adsense (wrong).

There's a lot more to the net than articles.

Example, running Adsense without articles: http://www.dafont.com/

How much text do you see on this Adsense page? There's 69 words & that includes every single bit of plain text & anchor-text on the Google Cache page (text version).

There's plenty more examples of low text count pages on Adsense sites, just look around the net. I've been doing this for 6 years & Adsense has never had a problem with my Adsense sites which are very similar to how dafont is setup, only in a different niche (same concept).

Low text count does not mean thin content. In the dafont example, there's no reason in this world to create an article for a downloadable font. Dafonts pages deliver exactly what the traffic expects, zip files that include a font, the zip/font file is the content. Don't get caught up in the fascination on this forum to continually count words for every single thing you do (SEO, Adsense, whatever...).

Read the Adsense TOS & use common sense when creating your page layouts.

More importantly, don't follow the herd, do your own thing.
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rendell

14 years ago

Look at image sharing website like 9gag or lol .... there is ZERO word per post.
There is no word count penalty.
All they are looking for is value to reader.

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seo2ever 14 years ago

Originally Posted by rendell

Look at image sharing website like 9gag or lol .... there is ZERO word per post.
There is not word count penalty.
All they are looking for is value to reader.

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