What's it to be, until or unless or do you mean non-unique?
How long should articles be nowdays for good seo?
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YoungCeaser
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500+ and dont forget to authorship as well video and pictures in the article. That's what i think is best, also use formating on the text and keep keyword density 2%.
prab1996
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The article I quoted from took the data from a bunch of URLs and calculated the average. The fact that the average is 2000 words is not to say you can't rank a 500 (or 100) words article. Exceptions (and blackhats) are everywhere.
it is a 90k Exact search niche with many long tail keywords , and #1 has a 100 word post #2 has just photos.
all those people are trying to rank for other keywords. this is my dream niche . all EMD's are for sale , some are being used for clickbank.
looks like people are trying to make some dollars but they are standing on gold mine .
niche can be monitrised by amazon,clickbank,adsense[$1.80per click ]
there are still good niches you only need good links . all site have got 1k-10k links in past 1-10months and links are spamy.
google will only compare link quality of sites and then rank them.
i am a noob in seo , i not know too much.
Roparadise
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Long tail keywords are much easier to rank for, the last time I had a website I was getting 90-95% of my traffic from those.
Techxan
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Write for your visitor, and put enough words on the page to do so. If you are writing for a younger audience you need to write in small bites. Short sentences and short paragraphs, lots of images and video.
The more technical the audience the more you can stretch out the paragraph and phrase length.
Generally the longer the (quality) article the better for SEO. It stands to reason that if you write a quality article on a subject, the longer it is the more semantic phrases it will contain. This brings in the long tails, and is great for adsense sites.
Articles for adsense sites should be long and wide. The object of an adsense site is to bring in someone looking for some particular information, but not to give them everything on that subject. You want them to come to your site and read your article, and then still are wanting more information so they will click on an ad for more information.
This is what I men by wide. Your article should be made to draw in a lot of keywords and provide "shallow" information about the subject. For depth, the visitor (hopefully) clicks on the ads.
This is different if you are writing for a product or a technical site. For a product page you want narrow focus, and hard fast details. A product page should be short and simple. It is not casting a wide net, because the focus of the page is one product. Making it deep is of no value to someone who is thinking of buying the product. They are interested in what it does and what it costs. The history of the industry, competing products, and so on should not be on a product sales age, unless they are reviews.
For a tech article, you can go as deep as you want, and write page after page of text. Technical folks will read 15 pages of stuff just to learn how to properly build a backlink.
There is another real benefit that longer articles give you for SEO. 500 words is basically one written page of double spaced type, 3 or 4 paragraphs or so. It takes about 45 seconds to read.
This means that a visitor who visits a 500 word article page they are interested in reading will finish it in less than a minute. At that point they will either go deeper into the site or leave.
If they leave, unless they close the page, they will count as a bounce.
If you write a 1000 word article, and split it into 2 pages, they will go deeper into the site and not leave.
This is powerful for SEO on many levels. It reduces your bounce rate and increases your time on site. It increases customer engagement, and if you are careful in crafting the article, the second page can target a related keyword that the first page does not focus on. This gives you two opportunities to get on the front page of Google with one article.
This post has just over 500 words. How long did it talke you to read it?
The more technical the audience the more you can stretch out the paragraph and phrase length.
Generally the longer the (quality) article the better for SEO. It stands to reason that if you write a quality article on a subject, the longer it is the more semantic phrases it will contain. This brings in the long tails, and is great for adsense sites.
Articles for adsense sites should be long and wide. The object of an adsense site is to bring in someone looking for some particular information, but not to give them everything on that subject. You want them to come to your site and read your article, and then still are wanting more information so they will click on an ad for more information.
This is what I men by wide. Your article should be made to draw in a lot of keywords and provide "shallow" information about the subject. For depth, the visitor (hopefully) clicks on the ads.
This is different if you are writing for a product or a technical site. For a product page you want narrow focus, and hard fast details. A product page should be short and simple. It is not casting a wide net, because the focus of the page is one product. Making it deep is of no value to someone who is thinking of buying the product. They are interested in what it does and what it costs. The history of the industry, competing products, and so on should not be on a product sales age, unless they are reviews.
For a tech article, you can go as deep as you want, and write page after page of text. Technical folks will read 15 pages of stuff just to learn how to properly build a backlink.
There is another real benefit that longer articles give you for SEO. 500 words is basically one written page of double spaced type, 3 or 4 paragraphs or so. It takes about 45 seconds to read.
This means that a visitor who visits a 500 word article page they are interested in reading will finish it in less than a minute. At that point they will either go deeper into the site or leave.
If they leave, unless they close the page, they will count as a bounce.
If you write a 1000 word article, and split it into 2 pages, they will go deeper into the site and not leave.
This is powerful for SEO on many levels. It reduces your bounce rate and increases your time on site. It increases customer engagement, and if you are careful in crafting the article, the second page can target a related keyword that the first page does not focus on. This gives you two opportunities to get on the front page of Google with one article.
This post has just over 500 words. How long did it talke you to read it?
charliedog
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depends on the website. before I used 400 words articles, now - 550-600. but it's inform blogs.
but in example in some niche it's hard to write 300 words, not talking about 600 ))
but in example in some niche it's hard to write 300 words, not talking about 600 ))
AlfieDingus
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it depends on the niche, what tier the article is in as well.
ideally
tier 1 - 500-600 words
tier 2 - 300-400 words
tier 3 - 250 words
in my opinion though it is always best to write an article for the sheer fact that you want people to read the article rather than hoping for a nice juicy link in return.
ideally
tier 1 - 500-600 words
tier 2 - 300-400 words
tier 3 - 250 words
in my opinion though it is always best to write an article for the sheer fact that you want people to read the article rather than hoping for a nice juicy link in return.
TheGreyMatter
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Actually when it comes to content, I have always believed that the bigger the articles are, the better it is.
I constantly read some of the authority blogs and most of the articles I found on them were mostly from 2000 to 3000 words.
But that again depends upon the niche, sometimes people looks for sweet and short solutions to their problem, so you need to know what you are writing about and whether it could keep the visitor reading your post or else if you can't make the visitors read the whole of your posts since they are not worth the quality, I would rather suggest you to keep them to 500-700 words.
I constantly read some of the authority blogs and most of the articles I found on them were mostly from 2000 to 3000 words.
But that again depends upon the niche, sometimes people looks for sweet and short solutions to their problem, so you need to know what you are writing about and whether it could keep the visitor reading your post or else if you can't make the visitors read the whole of your posts since they are not worth the quality, I would rather suggest you to keep them to 500-700 words.
totalseolinking
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500+ works great but there is now a new step that will give you more power and value in googles eyes... Authorship... make sure when you are posting your article you clearly link to your website, google+ etc... Become an authority in your niche will have more power long term... search anything on google these days, what comes up first,, a little pic with the author beside his article.. you could be next... good luck!
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Roparadise
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I prefer getting long tail keywords without focusing to much on SEO for a certain keyword.
Techxan
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You should focus on the best root keyword for the main keyword, and "bring in" the related long tials.. Use the root keyword in the title, desc, h1 tag, in the opening and summary paragraphs. Spread use of the root keyword across the page, so it is evenly distributed and not bunched at the beginning or end only. Use a mention in the opening paragraph to bring in the longtails, and create a h2 heading for each one. Put content under this heading about the longtail, and keep most other keywords out,except maybe the root.
Your goal here is to keep the information about the long tail keyword in close proximity of its h2 tag, and not under any other h2 tags.. Use h3 tags if possible to further develop this long tail (or to brig in longer tails of this one), but keep all other long tails out of this one's H2 umbrella.
When you mention the long tail in the opening paragraph, you signal that it is important to the page. When you add it to an H2 tag, you are giving more weight to the phrase, because of the algo. This will almost always bring in a long tail on a page, if the long tail is related..
You target the root keyword because some people in your area will search for it. Because SERPS blend their results between local and global results, when someone searches for the root keyword in your area, you will pop up in the serps even if they did not search by city name. Keep in mind that they have now entered your site not on a long tail, but a root keyword. Now, if they stay on our site it is an indicator that they found value in your page, for the root keyword. When this happens over time, the algo will adjust your ranking up for this root keyword upward, until it matches the competition, or beats them. This is slow ranking, but when it happens, the strength of the national ranking really cements the local ranking in place, making it almost 10 ft tall and bulletproof.
Your goal here is to keep the information about the long tail keyword in close proximity of its h2 tag, and not under any other h2 tags.. Use h3 tags if possible to further develop this long tail (or to brig in longer tails of this one), but keep all other long tails out of this one's H2 umbrella.
When you mention the long tail in the opening paragraph, you signal that it is important to the page. When you add it to an H2 tag, you are giving more weight to the phrase, because of the algo. This will almost always bring in a long tail on a page, if the long tail is related..
You target the root keyword because some people in your area will search for it. Because SERPS blend their results between local and global results, when someone searches for the root keyword in your area, you will pop up in the serps even if they did not search by city name. Keep in mind that they have now entered your site not on a long tail, but a root keyword. Now, if they stay on our site it is an indicator that they found value in your page, for the root keyword. When this happens over time, the algo will adjust your ranking up for this root keyword upward, until it matches the competition, or beats them. This is slow ranking, but when it happens, the strength of the national ranking really cements the local ranking in place, making it almost 10 ft tall and bulletproof.
m2bsolutions
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you can write article according to your need but it is important that do not repeat your keywords again and again and use 3 to 4% density of your keyword in your content.
Brainiac101
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I think that as long as your content is good and unique it doesnt matter how long they are. I think having every article between 300-1000 words is best just to variate though. That looks most natural.
Corydoras007
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I would say it depends on what kind of info you have.
The norm as many would say is 500 but I have some blogs that contain new never heard of before informative posts of around 200-300 ranking pretty high.
The norm as many would say is 500 but I have some blogs that contain new never heard of before informative posts of around 200-300 ranking pretty high.