Should I split long form content?

[mozasea]

I have quite a long content on my site. By length I mean around 8000-9000 words. I optimized it to cover almost all searches related to a topic.

But this length makes me uneasy for some reason. I do not think that users will find what they are looking for in such a long content. However, I don't want to neglect the SEO aspect of the content.

I can talk about something like this without sharing the keywords completely:

• Title + for girls
• Title + for boys
• Title + for kids
• Title + for girlfriend
• Title + for boyfriend
• Title + for students

As I said, in the current situation, these are all sub-headings (H2) of 8000-9000-word content. When I make a separate content for each of them, I can bring them all closer to 1500-2000 words.

However, I am undecided whether this is the right step in terms of SEO and content optimization. What are your views?

[acarrothers]

At 8K-9K words I do think there is merit to split up your content into smaller articles with more focus some of the sub topics

[mattygoforit]

@mozasea said in Should I split long form content?:

I have quite a long content on my site. By length I mean around 8000-9000 words. I optimized it to cover almost all searches related to a topic.

But this length makes me uneasy for some reason. I do not think that users will find what they are looking for in such a long content. However, I don't want to neglect the SEO aspect of the content.

I can talk about something like this without sharing the keywords completely:

• Title + for girls
• Title + for boys
• Title + for kids
• Title + for girlfriend
• Title + for boyfriend
• Title + for students

As I said, in the current situation, these are all sub-headings (H2) of 8000-9000-word content. When I make a separate content for each of them, I can bring them all closer to 1500-2000 words.

However, I am undecided whether this is the right step in terms of SEO and content optimization. What are your views?

I think you're talking about pillar content. What you can do is leave that long -form content as it is, adjust it to rank for a specific keyword, and support it with 7-8 short-form articles.