What is the critical number of pages to rank in Google?

On whole site: 50, 100, 150, 200, ... 1000?

[physics]

All other things being equal, what do you think is the minimum number of pages a site needs to have to be considered big enough by the SEs? I remember seeing something about this in another post a while ago... I think they said 200 but I'm not sure and would love to hear other opinions.
#physics

[NFFC]

10

[click watcher]

i had a private site linked only from one of my main sites, it has its own domain name and had only 3 pages for about 4 months of last year, the index page had a google page rank of 2, now it has more pages but still under 20, it still has page rank and every page is in the google db, the only incoming link is the same original single one.

it shared the same ip address as the main site, but i don't think that was a factor.

[physics]

Thanks. Do you think there will be a PR/ranking boost if one has 1000 as opposed to 100 pages?

[mona]

I can't say for sure, but based on my experience, no.

I've had several 6-8 page sites do very well in Google.

On one of the sites, I managed to get 2 pages listed in DMOZ. Both immedialtely received a solid pagerank. (Mac user, so no toolbar, but it looks like 4-5).

[starec]

mona: if you have a page of the site in dmoz, you can check its pagerank on Mac by looking at the google directory category.

physics: no boost there I'm afraid. Some people say that bigger sites tend to have better PR, I still have not seen any conclusive supporting evidence.

PR depends on the number and quality of inbound links. I have seen a 1 page site with PR=6 due to 1 good inbound link from dmoz...

[mona]

> if you have a page of the site in dmoz, you can check its pagerank on Mac by looking at the google directory category.

Thanks, starec. I guess I'm a bit confused on finding out exact page rank. That is actually where I saw my page rank to make the estimation.

But everyone seems to refer to an exact number, so I figured it was displayed on the toolbar.

Maybe my eyes just aren't as good as the rest of ya all;)

[click watcher]

>>But everyone seems to refer to an exact number, so I figured it was displayed on the toolbar.

it is displayed as an exact number on the toolbar,

although of course the exact number is not exact but only an approximation to the nearest whole number

eg. all 5s are not equal (and so on)

[agerhart]

Some may say that it is possible to have a site rank well within Google with less than 5 pages, and this is probably true. This being said, I would never advise to leave a site that small. I think that Google does prefer large sites that are optimized well and have strong links......but still likes large sites.

I like to think of it in themes and as a whole. If it is a competitive market, and there are two sites competing against each other: Site A has 5 pages, all following the same theme and targeting the same keywords and keyword variations. Site B has 50 pages, all following the same keywords and keyword variations. If each of them has one strong link for every x amount of pages, then Site B will have more. Even with that aside, there will be pages to strengthen Site B's theme and in turn its keyword strength.

In my opinion.

[physics]

I guess there is always the fact that the more pages you have targeted to different search terms, the more likely you are to bring in more visitiors. i.e. a site with 500 different pages about quilts has many more 'natural doorways' (he he) than one with 5 pages.

[physics]

On a related note, what about throwing up red flags for having too many pages? I mean, will my site show up in bold on some search engineers screen because I have 100,000 pages? Then they check it out for spam and maybe nix it?

[brotherhood of LAN]

Hey physics

I get a not bad PR6 from about 70 pages, waiting for Google to catch up with my site to get another 40 or so Ive made

I wouldnt think "too many" pages would get penalised unless the content in them overlaps too much. Also, the more pages you own, the more chance one of them will be disliked by the search spiders and banned

never happened to me so i couldnt say! :)

I keep building and building pages. Had plenty time yesterday and made 10 new ones. On av, the ones already there attract 50 page views a day, so I guess I just earned myself '500 impressions a day'

My site used to be on a free domain with half as many visitors and half as many pages. Keep building up until your subject area could be learned solely at your site

[Marcia]

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[TallTroll]

If its well done, I'm sure you could get a 1 page site to rank on any Search Engine. Of course the more quality content you have, the more chances you have to be found. If you want to really hammer half a dozen keywords/phrases, you really need at least 6 pages (1 per page)

Its the same thing that keeps cropping up time and time again thoughout WmW : CONTENT IS KING!

Everything else is just trimmings. Without quality content, any success you have is likely to be temporary (even if it does last for months).

To misqoute Denethor of Gondor :

For a little space you may triumph in the SERP, for a month. But against the Spider that now arises there is no victory. To this site only the first finger of its hand has yet been stretched. All the crawlers are moving