Q&A articles vs individual question articles

Holzr said:

I use the keyword golden ratio and each question is a new article on my sites. There is way less competition, you'll get targeted traffic and better CTR as your page will have the question in the title which will encourage searchers to click on your result. Sure some of your answers may be shorter but who cares? What matters is that you serve the user and answer their intent. Google has confirmed word count does not matter, if you can answer a searchers question in a few hundred words then great!

Edit: Many SEOs bang on about creating huge long form content. This is ok for broad topics, you can talk about loads and therefore end up ranking for loads of stuff but I think long form content is overrated. I'd rather write more articles and target very focused long tail questions to rank quickly and drive easy traffic than take ages ranking a mega article. Besides even if you write about a long tail in a massive guide you might not get the CTR. Say your keyword was how to run faster and you write a how to be a better runner mega guide. As a searcher I'd much rather click a result that matches my search intent. The article might be 500 words but if it answers my question quickly, that's all I care about.

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