how Many pages needed to rank a website

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Yes you can. I have seen pages that are been ranked even less pages and sites which are still struggling to be ranked even with 100 pages.
 
Number of pages will not be counted by google just the quality of articles with relevant keywords means a lot. Even 1 page with proper content will rank much faster than 20 page content.
 
there are adult sites with only 3-5 pages and around 100 videos.
they still have top google, and over 90% views are searches.
So I don't think a lot of content is important to SEO
 
Completely depends on your niche/product if you can do content in a single page and you think that's enough its's fine try to make it more unique relevant and test the traffic to the page hopefully you won't stop with 1 page:d
 
Ainan said:
can i rank a website with only 20 pages?
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How long for website to rank?
According to multiple sources, the average time for websites to rank on Google through optimization (SEO) techniques is about three to six months. That's right – jumping to the front of Google's results usually takes between 90-180 days, depending on the competitiveness of your industry and popularity of your keywords.
 
Its irrespective of number of pages in most cases.
Long-form content improves better chance of indexing.
 
Ainan said:
can i rank a website with only 20 pages?
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Of course.
Google stated a long time ago (I think!), that number of pages is not a ranking factor.
Some sites rank #1 with just a few pages.
And no, you do not even need 20 pages, we have sites ranking with less than 10 pages.
Anyway, this is too vague, depends also on niche and competitivity.
 
Camper321 said:
Hey Dude,

I did a lot of experimentation with niche sites and these were my controls:

  • A site with 100 posts with 500 words each, 1 image per post, optimized tags, and meta description
  • A site with 10 posts 5000 words each, 10 images per post, optimized tags, and meta description.
  • A site with 50 posts 1000 words each, 1 image per post, optimized tags, and meta description.
  • A site with 20 posts 2500 words each, 3 images per post, optimized tags, and meta description.
No backlinks were used, no social signals were used, no unique images were used. Images were obtained using scrapebox.


Two sites ranked the fastest and were more resilient to algorithm movements and competition over 12 months: 10 posts @ 5000 words and 20 posts @ 2500 words.

The site with 20 posts @ 2500 earned the most from amazon.

This was not because medium form content performs better than long-form content - this was because I had more posts covering more of the niche. If I had 20 posts @ 5000 words I would have out earned the site with 20 posts @ 2500 words easily.

Google prefers long-form content which includes:

  • Gif's
  • Videos
  • Images
  • Interlinks to other pages and posts
  • Embed social posts
  • Links to other websites within the same niche
  • Links to education website, Journal Studies, and government websites
  • Obama tweets for some reason? (not meming here, try incorporating a few Obama tweets into your affiliate posts).
  • LSI - Synonym variations of your main keywords; Google usually knows what your target keyword is by checking the density of your first 100 words and comparing that with the words in your post title.
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True if you want to go deep into a niche and rank for a lot - this is the rounte.

I have several sites with one page - yes ONE that is doing juuuuuust fine.
 
Ainan said:
can i rank a website with only 20 pages?
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check difficult niches such as DUI lawyer new york or DUI lawyer los angeles. most top ranked sites, have less than 20 pages. do that should answer your question.
 
Pages and content don't matter at all, a good domain with authority and a HQ backlink profile will rank you anything!
 
This is all kind of ironic to me, when you consider that peoples' attention spans have decreased so much over the last decade or two.

Ha! Google doesn't seem to understand >90% of the population doesn't have the mental capacity to sit still and read a 1500-2500 word article... a single meaty paragraph is pushing it.

Having said that... give the G overlord what it wants...
 
Does anyone have a successful case of 1 page website ranking?
 
EdwinCol said:
I am ranking single page (6000 article one page ) It's a amazon site. Wanted to to say it doesn't really matter how much you post ( post count matters if you are into splogging etc) But in genaral all you need is worth content where you arrange for readers. 70% of my site no more than 5 pages including afiiliate declare page :/
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Aggree with u. Your domain authority most important. I even see just url anchor is in top google ranked.
 
Thats another way of asking how many links you would need to rank. The answer is no one know
 
redbandit said:
Thats another way of asking how many links you would need to rank. The answer is no one know
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Count of pages is not a matter to rank a site in google, even you can rank a single page with great quality content without building backlinks by the way of sharing a post in social network, or else build few high authority or guestpost backlinks
 
Yes You can,, no of pages dont matter.. the quality of the content in the page and its corresponding backlinks along with 200+ metrics determine your ranking...
 
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