Average word count in top 10 SERP ?

feelfreeto said:

If an average article word count in top10 results is 2500 words, do I have a chance to rank in top10 with a 1500 article at all?

Or should I aim for at least 2500 to have chance to rank in top 10? How important it is?

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feelfreeto said:

If an average article word count in top10 results is 2500 words, do I have a chance to rank in top10 with a 1500 article at all?

Or should I aim for at least 2500 to have chance to rank in top 10? How important it is?

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Dreams411 said:

If you have a better backlink profile, you can even outrank those sites with a content of just 250 words. Word count is overrated.

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MisterF said:

This is a screenshot I left today as a review, but look at the word count figures;

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Topiano said:

@MisterF , Is that the keysearch tool in your screenshot ?

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MisterF said:

Keyword Revealer this one mate.

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praetserge said:

You're absolutely right here that links can rank an article even with just 250 words.
It basically comes down to the trade-off... you need more links to rank a shorter article. So I mix and match so at times I write long articles and sometimes short ones.

Here's an example:
Query: "how to redirect http to https?"
Look at the top results... they all offer me to read what https is, then what ssl is, then why I should do it, some words of warning... and then I finally find a paragraph of how to do it and 2 lines of code. So I had to scroll through those long articles wasting my time to find something something so simple.

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