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Does Word Count Affect SEO?

Date: September 10, 2018

Category: SEO

Author: David Hall

About three years ago I wrote a post disagreeing with one of our competitors in search engine optimization who was telling prospective clients that the optimum length for a page to gain high rankings in Google was 500+ words. We see variations of this idea being promoted by various SEO companies. Just Google “long-form content” Read More

Tags: 500-word rule, Casey Markee, Google rankings, long-form content, ranking factors, SEO myths, seo rankings, word count

Writing quality content is more than a 500-word rule

Writing quality content is more than a 500-word rule

Date: July 29, 2015

Category: SEO

Author: David Hall

When Einstein Medical solicited a couple of our clients, they sent them lengthy reports criticizing their websites. The first major point they addressed in the reports was the use of meta tags. I addressed this point in an earlier blog post titled Sleazy SEO Sales Tactics. The second major point was whether or not the Read More

Tags: 500-word rule, duplicate content, Einstein Dental, Einstein Medical, Google Panda update, Google Penguin update, Google quality content guidelines, quality content, user experience, word count