Thin Content - Confusing Issue

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I'm actually confused with the term Thin content even after a lot of blogging experience.

Basically, Imagine, i have a micro-niche site, assume it is regarding some service or sales page. For that type it can't have more than 300 or 200 words. It is a small sales site, so it will have like only 5-7 pages in total. Will it be vulnerable for Google Panda update? What will be the possible solution?

I am planning on creating an authority blog with several pages of content. How many words would be optimum for each post to be safe with Panda. But it's a different niche, for some or most of the post, readers would feel comfortable with short posts only around 200 words. Making it more words, would make it look blabbing and unnecessary content.

However, in my previous technology blog, i had content with less number of words and after a year or so, it was hit by panda. So i'm little skeptical on what solution i could use for this problem
#search engine optimization #confusing #content #issue #thin
  • Google cares about the user experience. The reason why they don't like thin sites is because most of them are designed to makes sales but not to necessarily provide value for the visitor. Made for Adsense Sites (MFA Sites) are another type of site that Google usually frowns upon because they're made to generate revenue and nothing else. They usually have thin content as well. Google is a big fan of authority type blogs with thousands of pages of content,The Huffington Post would be a good example.
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    • Don't worry about Google... focus on your readers by giving them a positive experience on your site. If you give your readers high quality content (which could be an article of ANY length), and if your site is clean (design, colors, minimal ads, etc.)... everything will pretty much fall in place (social media shares and followers, more traffic, more subscribers, and possibly even good rankings for strong keywords). Putting too much focus on Google and SEO and not the reader will almost always end up disastrously.

      Bottom line, it's all about your visitors.
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    Anyone that says you need a lot of text on a page doesn't know how to rank a page. The only time a lot of text matters for SEO is, If your trying to target a lot of longtail keyword variations, otherwise it doesn't matter what the word count is for ranking a page.
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    Thin Content - Confusing Issue

    I'm actually confused with the term Thin content even after a lot of blogging experience. Basically, Imagine, i have a micro-niche site, assume it is regarding some service or sales page. For that type it can't have more than 300 or 200 words. It is a small sales site, so it will have like only 5-7 pages in total. Will it be vulnerable for Google Panda update? What will be the possible solution?