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What is the minimum amount of content a page should have to be seo friendly?
What is the maximum amount of content a page should have to be seo friendly?
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There is no formula of winning!
I am working for a real estate industry and can tell you the fact that quality of content impact the most when it comes to rankings for long tail keywords. I think a content between 500 to 1500 words are fine but if you are going to make it too long without any good level of interaction for readers (i.e images and videos) then i personally don't think it will help you increase rankings and traffic.
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Hi Joel,
Since I'm not in the real estate business nor does my business rely on local traffic or business, nor have I been a "local SEO" I feel poorly qualified to answer this question. However, I can tell you this: I moved here in September 2011 and I needed to find a place to live, fast.
One of the top two local real estate companies that kep coming up in searches was this one: http://www.rants-group.com/default.htm The other one was this one: http://www.hometownpm.com/ However, I should throw in this caveat, the pages that I landed on and that I continue to visit are the "home rentals
pages here: thttp://www.rants-group.com/residential_rent/res_rent_page_houses.htm and here: http://www.hometownpm.com/rentals.htmlPerhaps by studying those two sites it might help you a little? I don't think either one of them have any significant SEO yet those are the top two that I used to help me find a nd rent a house when I moved.
Dana
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Hi Joel,
Since I'm not in the real estate business nor does my business rely on local traffic or business, nor have I been a "local SEO" I feel poorly qualified to answer this question. However, I can tell you this: I moved here in September 2011 and I needed to find a place to live, fast.
One of the top two local real estate companies that kep coming up in searches was this one: http://www.rants-group.com/default.htm The other one was this one: http://www.hometownpm.com/ However, I should throw in this caveat, the pages that I landed on and that I continue to visit are the "home rentals
pages here: thttp://www.rants-group.com/residential_rent/res_rent_page_houses.htm and here: http://www.hometownpm.com/rentals.htmlPerhaps by studying those two sites it might help you a little? I don't think either one of them have any significant SEO yet those are the top two that I used to help me find a nd rent a house when I moved.
Dana
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No problem, Thanks again for your help. It is greatly appreciated.
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No, I don't pay any attention to RE. Sorry.
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Thank you for your response. What is the ideal home page structure for a local Real Estate Site?
Do you know of any realtors that are doing their on page seo correctly?
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Thank you for your reply. I am trying to find a balance between Words, Pictures and Video. Obviously the search engines like worded content, but Pictures Speak a thousand words and Video is even better in some aspects. Do you know of any sites that are in the service industry like Real Estate that strike a good balance?
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Hi Joel,
I don't think there's a hard and fast rule here. The length entirely depends on the subject matter and your audience. If your page is a product page on an e-commerce site and the product is a microphone clip, 2000 words would be silly. If your page is a blog post targeted towards audio-video professionals and is about how to mic specific instruments in specific situations, 2000 words might be too short.
Remember when you were in school and you inevitable got that professor who answered your question of "how long should my paper be?" and they answered "As long as it needs to be to express your point.." ? It's like that.
Good luck Joel!
Dana
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I had about 50 pages with about 15 words and a great image and they ranked on the second page of google and they pulled a little traffic.
I improved them to a couple hundred words and their rankings went up and they pulled even more traffic.
I have been improving them more to 500 to 2000 words with several great images and now they are ranking near the top of the first page of google and the long tail traffic that they pull in has increased by 10x.
I don't think that there is a minimum or maximum number of words. However, the more words you use the greater your long tail traffic. And, more important, the higher quality of your content the more popular your pages will become and that will propel them to better rankings.
The problem with minimum content is that my 15 original words could today be considered thin content and subject to panda problems.
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