Adsense - is there an optimum number of words per page

do you operate a minimum and a maximum

[meg8]

Hi,
I'm in ecommerce and thinking of branching out into adsense. I want to start a content based site. In my ecommmerce site people often crticise me having too many words.
Given that I want to make each page on my adsense site properly useful, can you suggest a good number of words (thinking only of the main content.)

Too short, and the content won't be good enough, people will click away, too long and their eyes will get tired reading.

Any suggestions?
Thanks

[Webwork]

There are optimum "hot spots" for placing AdSense.

Optimum number of words for AdSense can obviously vary, depending on your mission. Just enough words to trigger relevant ads is one approach. What's your mission? To educate? Inform? Entertain? Or, make AdSense revenue?

Are you aware that WW has an entire section dedicated to AdSense questions?

[meg8]

Hi Thanks for the reply, I posted this in the adsense forum and they seemed pretty convinced that it was a content question. I want to write good interesting educational articles that my visitors will like reading, so obviously there will be a natural length -from the beginning to the end. However I do want to make money from adsense, perhaps not millions, but enough to grow the website.

I've noticed that a lot of the articels I read online are actually very short, I know that its not as easy as reading on the page, and was wondering if anyone felt there was a word limit where the words cease to be useful to both adsense and the person reading.

[abbeyvet]

For readability, coherence of information, ease of printing and other reasons something between 400 and 600 words seems to me to make sense. I tend to split pages somewhere around that number of words.

It is reasonable to suppose it would also be good for AdSense as it is enough words to contain a good body of information on a fairly tightly defined sub-topic, which would mean natural use of very closely related key phrases. Any more and you are probably introducing too many ideas on the same page both for the user (who may be looking for something very specific) and for good ad relevancy.

Of course it really depends on the topic and the audience - writing about Quantum Mechanics and "how to bake apple pie" are obviously going to need different approaches.