Thread: length of article and bolding

My landing (money) pages have length 800 - 1200 words, another posts around 500.

Right keyword length should be 400 to 500 words.

400 words is what ezine articles have kept as a minimum limit for approval. this is what their research gave. i perefer to have 500 words with few important titles and media if any!

400 to 450 word is enough in article.

Of course your write that only bold keywords is not enough we also need to do the optimize our blog attractive and informative.

Thanks for suggesting this.

Better to convey what we are trying to say as short as possible. For example, if we want to say about something in 1000 words, try to short it within 500 words. An article should make readers or users to listen the article with more interest. In any place the readers should not get feel lazy or not good of reading article.. This is the quality of an article.

Originally Posted by Phoenyx

I personally don't like reading an article that has bold words all over the place.

Even I don't like to read such articles. Properly formatted articles looks pleasing to the eyes.

I like h1-h6 tag than bold

on the other hand some wikipedia articles are very lengthy but still ranks well, maybe that works too?

Originally Posted by paco

on the other hand some wikipedia articles are very lengthy but still ranks well, maybe that works too?

Wikipedia is a very high authority site so I don't think length of the article would be an issue there.

For SEO length itself isn't usually a problem unless you have too little content stuffed with too many keywords. Length is mainly for the reader or your potential consumer, too long they click away, not enough information they go to another site. Remember the main purpose of SEO is to get people to come to the site and use it.

Now for bold and H tags.

The H tags and bold seem to work best as section headers introducing an area of discussion. Like I did above

A good rule of thumb is 500 words, but I've also seen and had short articles indexed & rank too. One trick for a short article, say 300 words, is to "fatten the page up" by with curated content like RSS feeds, Google/Yahoo News Feeds, Youtube Vids, Images with Alt tags, Documents from sites like Docstoc, etc.

Let it flow .. if it takes 800 words then so be it. If it only a 400 words then let it be. I've heard somewhere that google might find it fishy that your site has all 500 word articles. Not too sure if that is something penguin is penalizing.

According to my opinion as long as the article explains all the points explicitly, its fine with every length of article. That may be 300 words or even 1300 words. It should not matter much.

If anybody asks me about the normal length of he article I would suggest it to be minimum 500 words and upto 1200 words, though it will be too long but beyond that will make it impossible for user to read it fully, and text formatting in an article for important points is necessary absoulutely necessary, it tells the user as well as search engines that the particular paragraph or line is much important in the discussion and you can use H1-H6 tags for formatting them.

I personally write 300-500 words with three keyword separate on the article. Underline and italic is also good

Google never told for a minimum word count, rather it has always told for quality content. So what does it mean??

When your content is fresh and relevant to your website, the quality increases. Do not put only your link but link to authority sites in your content makes it Google friendly.

When it comes word count, you cant satisfy a user query with a 200/300 word content. You need to be descriptive so you need to be at least 500 word.

I think between 500-750 words is the best.

Somewhere I have read that articles with 1000 words sell better for affilates

I think you should use a lot ob bold italic and undrline bacause it makes blog look easyer to read

The content should be unique, and more than 200 words, the more the better, but it is imporant not to produce text. I mean not to repeat and repeat the information again and again. "To compare intest rate is goo. So interest rates should be compared. That why I recommend to compare interest rates..." Give information and stay readable, to produce text is in my opinionand analysation also a bit DC on page, what the panda don´t like.