Question

I see many types of observations and opinion on content lengths. This might be confusing because I also have seen many ranked articles have more than 4000 or 500 words in the first 5 in SERP. I have seen the opposite too. 800-word articles are dominating the first page (there might be other factors such as quality Backlinks or recent information updates etc). My question is, if I consider only quality content. which things should I consider? how structure an article? Measure the amount of info is sufficient?  

Answer 1

Whatabout on-page optimization?  

Comments

That does but Im considering the onpage is done, what about the content now?  

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To your question: answer questions people search and create/use Schema FAQ

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ILS also big factor.  

Answer 2

Content length has little to do with content quality. Generally, short articles risk being treated as "thin" content but it's not that simple.  

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Yes, I forgot to mention the thin content issue. but the plagiarized one is also considered as a thin content.  

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@kicker Well, plagiarized content could be duplicate content but it's not necessarily "thin. " Thin is just that - not much there.  

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@mikimikihisa2 which one should i call thin? A 100 word paragraph?  

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It's just not that simple. It can depend on competition in the niche, among other things. If you don't have a well informed intuition about what could trigger a machine looking for "thin" content, go with the old school method of writing what your readers need to know.  

Answer 3

Like @mikimikihisa2 said, the word count has little to do with quality. Basic onpage SEO and backlinks will play a much larger part in getting you to the top 3. You can help by making shareable content, something that is worthy of visitors linking back to. That's what I would focus on.  

Answer 4

Focus on the problem your content will solve. If you can solve your customers problem in 300 words don’t write 3. 000! If your customers need more information write as long as you solve the problem. Google will honor it. But remind it’s all about E-A-T your expertise needs authority and trust! The more trust you have the more comfortable is your situation. If your site is new, you have less trust so you need longer texts to prove your expertise.  

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Yes, thats what should have been worked but the culture of content length doing something else. specially some statistical graphs eg. by Neil Patel talks other things. saw recently.  

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@kicker I configured my answer, please read again  

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@splasher772 thanks Michael, read again .