Search Engine Ranking

Number of words on a page?

[Nil austenite]

Can anybody please let me know, approximately how many words should I write in a web page to be ranked high in a search engine (especially in google)?

I am a little bit confused about this issue. I read somewhere that the number of keyword and the density of keywords helps a page to get a high rank. Somebody also told me less is good for good ranking. Any suggestion?

[edited by: pageoneresults at 3:17 am (utc) on May 5, 2004]
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[pageoneresults]

Hello Nil, Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

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P.S. The above applies to all search engines, not just Google.

[Stefan]

These days, it seems best to use kw's naturally in the normal flow of text. The SE's are on to kw stuffing and if anything they'll push you down, or disappear you, because of it.

What I've seen lately on our pages is that putting your kw's every couple of paragraphs seems to keep G happy... perhaps once every 50 - 100 words for a density of 1 - 2%. If the title is good, (critically important), and there is a lot of pertinent on-topic text with the kw's mixed in, and the anchor text for backlinks is good, (from quality sites), and you link out to related quality sites, (very important... it can help to make you an "authority"), that's about it, unless you go for a link-farm multiple-domain redirect doorway approach on throw-away domains.

<Added>Make sure you have the kw's used right at the top of the page, and if it's a page other than the index/default, make the file name [example....] org/kw1-kw2.htm. Also, make lots of pages geared towards different kw's that are related to, variations on, your main ones... better to have 1 hit a day on 100 different pages than 100 a day on one page.</added>