Anybody tested article length effects?

rpkrocks · Apr 29, 2016

Keeping all other factors aside, Google would prefer a 600-word, 1,000-word or 2,000-word article?

Anybody tested?

rpkrocks · Apr 30, 2016

Bump!!! Bomp!! Bomph!

RuthSam · Apr 30, 2016

It seems that the content and the keyword density plays a big role in what articles work and what is simply ignored by Google!

asap1 · Apr 30, 2016

Longer content tends to rank better.

Headmaster Cid · Apr 30, 2016

I remembered a guy who did an experiment with 500, 1000, 2000 etc words and compared the ranking between those articles. And you guessed it: more words tend to rank better. Especially if it is full of information which tend to be shared more

rpkrocks · Apr 30, 2016

fostdecile said:
I remembered a guy who did an experiment with 500, 1000, 2000 etc words and compared the ranking between those articles. And you guessed it: more words tend to rank better. Especially if it is full of information which tend to be shared more

Do you have the link? Is it on BHW?

clevelandslim · Apr 30, 2016

Keyword density plays a major role. Write Original content, because your content is worthy while posting. Don't use same keyword for all posting. Try to prepare your article in short, not more than 800 words.

Cha Wong · Apr 30, 2016

Long article/blogs tends to rank better

SEO Sicko · Apr 30, 2016

Lengthy articles get higher rank.
In another part you can concentrate on content to be fresh and unique.
Because google always look for articles with good content.

TurnedToTheDarkSide · Apr 30, 2016

Best to read the full articles below to put this in context.

http://blog.serpiq.com/how-important-is-content-length-why-data-driven-seo-trumps-guru-opinions/

As you can see, there is a drop in content length as we move from first to tenth position. On average, 10th position pages have 400 less words on the page than first position pages. This does point to the trend that higher ranked sites have more content, but keep in mind that this graph is not segmented in any way - this is just a graph of all of the SERPs we've analyzed.

http://backlinko.com/search-engine-ranking

After removing outliers from our data (pages that contained fewer than 51 words and more than 9999 words), we discovered that pages with longer content ranked significantly better than short content.

In fact, the average word count of a Google first page result is 1,890 words.

whiteblackseo · Apr 30, 2016

1k+ words for the homepage usually lets me rank properly for low comp. keywords.

Gosite · Apr 30, 2016

+1500 word is always good

vitarank · Apr 30, 2016

The longer the better, maybe go with 1k-1.5k

MisterF · Apr 30, 2016

Longer the better, especially for main / pillar articles. That being the case, quality over quantity, so ensure there's not tons of fluff and filler, ensure keyword density is capped and that the article is good for the human reader and not just written for search engines ( unless this is a Tier 2 site ).

Netro · May 1, 2016

In Internet Marketing, Google is a very beautiful chick which prefer long things and being satisfied daily with another long things.

Try to be smart with Google and you'll get where you want.

While you are giving the big things to the chick, try to make every thing long, beautiful and unique. The chick is looking for something unique, not something which she already saw and is nothing new for her.

VictorBox · May 1, 2016

Congratulation seniorita.
Just Remember, Dont put your keywords to often.

VictorBox · May 1, 2016

whiteblackseo said:
1k+ words for the homepage usually lets me rank properly for low comp. keywords.

Well done , but whats your keyword density here?
I will continue to check up on you from time to time, to make sure you are not doing anything stupid.. Or breaking any rules

msoman · May 1, 2016

Longer and meaningful article will definitely rank better.

meetseo121 · May 1, 2016

Quality + Longer content + Exact keyword density is preferred by Google.

myopic1 · May 1, 2016

I did a post on this very topic and why longer articles rank better, you can find it here:

http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo/817899-why-more-content-better-page-search-engine-optimization.html

Anybody tested article length effects?

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