Is 500 word articles Better Than 1,000 Word Articles?

11 years ago

It always suggestible to have 500 words of two artciles for a week, as 1000 words will sometimes irriate the user to read the whole story at one stretch.

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Andyhenry

11 years ago

Originally Posted by jaisonjohn

It always suggestible to have 500 words of two artciles for a week, as 1000 words will sometimes irriate the user to read the whole story at one stretch.

That is complete BS.

If what you're writing is useful to someone they will want more content rather than less.

500 words is nothing for a subject people care about.

How many sales pages to you see with only 500 words on?

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selfmadetycoon

11 years ago

I'm not asking about the content itself but I was asking because google obviously favors fresh content or blogs vs websites. If that's the case is two 500 word articles every week better than a 1,000 word article once?

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Andyhenry

11 years ago

Originally Posted by selfmadetycoon

I'm not asking about the content itself but I was asking because google obviously favors fresh content or blogs vs websites. If that's the case is two 500 word articles every week better than a 1,000 word article once?

To get what result?

What is it you're trying to get Google to do?

If you're targeting different keywords then use more articles. If you're targeting the same keyword then put the right amount of content for the searcher you are trying to attract.

Don't spend too much time trying to fit your content into every tiny algorithm element as they can change that stuff whenever they want - write for the people you're trying to have find you.

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Oranges 11 years ago

Originally Posted by jaisonjohn

It always suggestible to have 500 words of two artciles for a week, as 1000 words will sometimes irriate the user to read the whole story at one stretch.

Can you write a 500 words article on "CONTENT IS KING"?
or may be on "If Content is the king, then who's the queen? :rolleyes:
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- online only 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Oranges
  
  Can you write a 500 words article on "CONTENT IS KING"?
  or may be on "If Content is the king, then who's the queen? :rolleyes:
  
  You can post that to twitter or your friends on facebook. I don't care if the content is king or not, I'm only concentrating on visitors, converting etc.
  
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online only

11 years ago

Why should Google ever love thin articles with 500 words?

I'm always trying to push myself to the 1000+ words even when I'm out of words. Eventually you will see that your content becomes more comprehensive, more logical, more interesting.

Would read an article that has 0 outgoing links, and less than 1000 words - usually not. In some rare cases yes, but juicy posts are always better.

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paulgl 11 years ago

Originally Posted by online only

Why should Google ever love thin articles with 500 words?

Because the real world deals in snippets. The more you write, the more
fluff, nonsense, add ons, meaningless drivel, etc. that muddle up
search engines.

Even sites with longer articles, will split them up into content that
can be view on one page, little scrolling. That's the key.

This is no in concrete. But to say google hates thin 500
articles is just wrong. Yahoo answers ranks quite high for
just a sentence or two.

Most people search on google the exact opposite of what
people here think they do. They want a quick answer. They
want to scroll to the bottom of a huge page.

Besides, ever here of this new fangled thing called, "mobile"?
It's the wave of the future....1,000 word articles would just
plain and simply suck, if they cannot be split and compacted
for the mobile user.

Paul
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steveunited

11 years ago

When you submit your article first think about your visitors. Your article should be user friendly and enjoying to read.

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ilikepie

11 years ago

Not much difference assuming the quality of the article is equal. You might how ever caught more long tail keywords with a 1000 words article. But that depends also a lot on your writing and structuring skills.

My advice, just write an article don't count the words till its done. Because quality goes above quantity.

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justmoretravel

11 years ago

Originally Posted by selfmadetycoon

Hey Warriors,

Do any of you guys know about content length for seo?

Is writing 500 word articles twice a week better than 1,000 word article once a week? I have a budget on paying article writers for my site and I was wondering if google looks for more frequent content for seo rather than long articles but not as frequent.

Any input would help.

My blog is Muscle In The Making | Saving Skinny Punks if you want to know about my content.

Write what is required to answer the question. If it's 300 words, write 300 words. If it's 1000 words, write 1000 words. If you were a visitor to your site how much information would you want to know about the subject?

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pdrs

11 years ago

personally i think that 376.5 words is the only way to go when it comes to writing articles for google. not including the title of course, and you should only have a keyword density of 3 and two thirds of a percentage point.

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Backlinko

11 years ago

Definitely 1000 words plus.

There's actually been some research on this:

This graph shows a clear correlation between content length and SERP position.

Also, Neil Patel at QuickSprout found that longer posts generated significantly more social shares:

Looks like you have your answer : )

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webby0031

11 years ago

spot on mate

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bertsocias

11 years ago

I suggest mixing 500 and 1k word articles. It now depends how well written they are.

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danielph

11 years ago

I think that to have some articles with 300+ is not so bad, i have seen a lot of articles ranks with so less words article But if we are going to see on the wikipedia that we see that on each description of something they have 2000+ words, amazing!

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heavysm 11 years ago

Doesn't it depend on the subject? lol I have pages with 20 words ranking well where there is a custom widget on the page which is the real meat of user experience. Then again i also have pages with 1500+ word articles going into the technical side of a niche i am passionate about. Both rank well.

From experience, not theory but experience, I have found that word count is irrelevant to ranking.
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patco

11 years ago

Aren't so many words (1000) going to distract your visitors and make them LEAVE without even reading your whole article.. I prefer NO more than 400 words. Better make this 1000+ words article to 2-3 articles with 300-400 words... You will see much more success!

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online only

11 years ago

Originally Posted by patco

Aren't so many words (1000) going to distract your visitors and make them LEAVE without even reading your whole article.. I prefer NO more than 400 words. Better make this 1000+ words article to 2-3 articles with 300-400 words... You will see much more success!

Depends on the niche.

If I'm searching for something like:
"Is Elton John Gay?" then obviously I'm looking for Yes/No answer.

However, if I'm searching for "how to to lose weight" then I'm looking for something more comprehensive with "resources" and 1000+ words. Not some random 300 word article with affiliate link to "the truth about abs" or smth like that.

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Backlinko

11 years ago

Originally Posted by online only

Depends on the niche.

If I'm searching for something like:
"Is Elton John Gay?" then obviously I'm looking for Yes/No answer.

However, if I'm searching for "how to to lose weight" then I'm looking for something more comprehensive with "resources" and 1000+ words. Not some random 300 word article with affiliate link to "the truth about abs" or smth like that.

Exactly.

Didn't you see the graphs above? Numbers don't lie my fellow Warriors.

It's IMPOSSIBLE to produce anything of value in 300 words (with the exception of poetry).

Remember that most content sucks because it lacks one thing: depth.

Anyone can write "10 tips for twitter". Articles like that are lame and lack depth.

But the articles that generate links and social shares give you a step-by-step plan for driving traffic from twitter.

And that's what people want from their content: depth.

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yukon

Banned 11 years ago

You could potentially have more traffic from the exact same amount of text If you split the same content up into multiple shorter chunks of text. I'll copy/paste what I've already posted on the subject:

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You could easily get multiple SERP listings from a 2000 word article, If you break that article into 5-6 pages & proper internal keyword linking.

Your short changing yourself having 2k words on a single page.

As an example, look at the site howstuffworks, they split every article up into multiple pages. This one article "How Hurricanes Work" is 7 short pages of text (screenshot #1).

Also see the multiple Google SERP listings (screenshot #2) they created by splitting up that single article into 7 laser targeted related pages of content.

They own the first page for that keyword phrase (How Hurricanes Work).

Use the force...

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Carl Brown 11 years ago

More opportunities to get your adsense ads in front of the reader. That article is broken down into 300 word bites. I prefer it. I think most would too.
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rjames

11 years ago

Originally Posted by selfmadetycoon

Hey Warriors,

Do any of you guys know about content length for seo?

Is writing 500 word articles twice a week better than 1,000 word article once a week? I have a budget on paying article writers for my site and I was wondering if google looks for more frequent content for seo rather than long articles but not as frequent.

Any input would help.

My blog is Muscle In The Making | Saving Skinny Punks if you want to know about my content.

The length of your articles and how often you post has absolutely nothing to do with ranking your site...

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