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January 20, 2004
The optimal number of words per page.
One of the things that I am often asked about search engine positioning is the ideal number of words that each web page should have. Although in the past there were recipes that had word ranges that were different for each of the major search engines and one was desperately trying to find overlaps in those ranges in order to achieve the best possible results, things and the overall philosophy of this has changed for both search engines and of course search engine optimizers.
The most appropriate answer to this question is write as much as your visitors will be able to read. Trust your copywriting instincts and provide your visitors with all the information they need without being too brief or too long. In other words the first step in your search engine positioning attempts should be to forget about search engine positioning. It sounds paradoxical, but it is certainly a way forward.
http://www.rugles.comOne of the things that I am often asked about search engine positioning is the ideal number of words that each web page should have. Although in the past there were recipes that had word ranges that were different for each of the major search engines and one was desperately trying to find overlaps in those ranges in order to achieve the best possible results, things and the overall philosophy of this has changed for both search engines and of course search engine optimizers.
The most appropriate answer to this question is write as much as your visitors will be able to read. Trust your copywriting instincts and provide your visitors with all the information they need without being too brief or too long. In other words the first step in your search engine positioning attempts should be to forget about search engine positioning. It sounds paradoxical, but it is certainly a way forward.
One of the things that I am often asked about search engine positioning is the ideal number of words that each web page should have. Although in the past there were recipes that had word ranges that were different for each of the major search engines and one was desperately trying to find overlaps in those ranges in order to achieve the best possible results, things and the overall philosophy of this has changed for both search engines and of course search engine optimizers.
The most appropriate answer to this question is write as much as your visitors will be able to read. Trust your copywriting instincts and provide your visitors with all the information they need without being too brief or too long. In other words the first step in your search engine positioning attempts should be to forget about search engine positioning. It sounds paradoxical, but it is certainly a way forward.
Posted by Basileios at January 20, 2004 10:40 AM
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