Topical Authority question word count

[pbentpop]

I have my website ranking top 10 in every keyword I want + a bunch of generic at the moment. I just wrote about 40-50 articles and need to go back an revise them. Right now they are sitting at 400-600 words human written. Most blogs I found of competitors are just repeated content barely updated on blogs under 500 words, just tons of service page adding up to 150-200 pages and I found 1 repeated the same content on every page but updating the blogs monthly.

I am curious how to finish off this strategy so I am just in update mode. Is 750 words enough for all of them in little clusters of matching content maybe with some mistakes. I dont think it will matter much until another google update but 1500 words would result in tons of fluff. I am trying to gauge a word count really. I am not trying to outrank all of them, I just want to rank 1-4 in serps from 8-10. It looks like none of them are doing a blog strategy, I just see spammy backlink updates biweekly. I am adding backlinks as well very niche, when i can get them via outreach

 

[SirLouen]

Words is not a thing. I understand that some tools suggest some word counts to match your competitors, but these are just extra easy to implement features to put things a little more fancy

 

[k2h2]

Ranking with just 500 words and all competing forums also doing good with this. Is there any moment to be made in this niche? Personally, I do not post an article less than 1500 in any niche now to remain safe from Google updates.

 

[BlackShield]

Keep it real and helpful—stick to around 750 words, make it interesting. Google likes that. Toss in some longer bits for big topics. Focus on quality, not just words.

 

[1SEOWarrior]

I have seen websites that have more total keyword count than content word counts. So, the main factor here is EEAT.

 

[Fang Yu]

Prioritize quality over quantity. Avoid adding unnecessary words just to fill the space.

 

[RMX]

Avoid unnecessary fluff and write relevant articles which prioritize use value over word count

 

[pbentpop]

Words is not a thing. I understand that some tools suggest some word counts to match your competitors, but these are just extra easy to implement features to put things a little more fancy

Thanks i needed to hear this

 

[pbentpop]

Ranking with just 500 words and all competing forums also doing good with this. Is there any moment to be made in this niche? Personally, I do not post an article less than 1500 in any niche now to remain safe from Google updates.

It is an adult Niche, so what you usually get is a person creating repetitive blogs with the same text of hire me, sexy, me hire, i sexy, you hire me, i am sexy. And just a bunch of this w/o context. I am not sure if these blogs help their authority. Websites that have nothing to do with strippers have all the SGE spots i think due to this.

 

[pbentpop]

Keep it real and helpful—stick to around 750 words, make it interesting. Google likes that. Toss in some longer bits for big topics. Focus on quality, not just words.

When I go back for my next edit on all like 45 of them I will hit this count on each. A few longer ones exist because of the topic. Am I waiting for the next helpful content update for this to be meaningfulr?

 

[pbentpop]

Prioritize quality over quantity. Avoid adding unnecessary words just to fill the space.

Roger that, this is why i stopped at about 45 blogs instead of 100. But still dropping one a month for 2024. I think I am competing with AI for the most part.

 

[pbentpop]

Avoid unnecessary fluff and write relevant articles which prioritize use value over word count

Thanks you guys kind I set in stone what i was thinking. When I do my monthly edits will remember this.