Ask Me Anything Word Count and Question Box Study

[Graybeard]

This is from 2021 so it's pretty current

Word Count Content Study 2021 | Embryo

Embryo’s word count study, undertaken across many months in 2021. This report highlights how much content is on pages within Google’s top 10.

www.embryodigital.co.uk

reasonably well documented
not your typical SEO

 

[Honeybadger]

This is from 2021 so it's pretty current

Word Count Content Study 2021 | Embryo

Embryo’s word count study, undertaken across many months in 2021. This report highlights how much content is on pages within Google’s top 10.

www.embryodigital.co.uk

reasonably well documented
not your typical SEO
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Have you considered this -->
anybody who posts 2,500 words
is likely to employ better technical SEO
than anybody who posts 500 words?
why dont these studies include full metrics

• Page load speed
• Mobile usability
• Adherence to Google guidelines
• Quality of grammar
• Use of images
• Optimization of images

Its quite useless just to see word count

1. Were the meta title keywords front loaded?
2. How many characters in the meta titles?
3. Were the meta title character capitalized?
4. What domain URL was used?
5. What URL file name was used?
6. Were the URL file name keywords included?
7. Were the URL file name keywords hyphen separated?

This is real SEO
and these are the real reasons content gets ranked
so this is the data I would like to see
in an advanced high level study
not just some automated word count software

 

[Graybeard]

Results matter not theory
This is the difference between empirical results v. supposition.
If 80% of the top SERPS are over 2300 word count it's not an accident.
However, this is just a global SERPs study and not niche specific

However, I have a longtail here right now:
'javascript refresh image every 600 ms'

#1 -186 words
#2 - 3141 words
#3 - 1308 words

So the answer is 42? Depends
(186+3141+1308)/3 = 1545 AVG
1308 = median
how and what you are counting matters too.

 

[Graybeard]

Google news just featured this article's domain

Web3 Can’t Fix the Internet

Web3 is touted as the next generation of the internet, promising to break the grip of giants like Google and Facebook. But far from empowering ordinary users, its token-based model threatens to commodify our online lives even further.

jacobinmag.com

interesting point of view commentary --so the content was of value

But look at the word count LOL

 

[Honeybadger]

Results matter not theory
This is the difference between empirical results v. supposition.
If 80% of the top SERPS are over 2300 word count it's not an accident.
However, this is just a global SERPs study and not niche specific

However, I have a longtail here right now:
'javascript refresh image every 600 ms'

#1 -186 words
#2 - 3141 words
#3 - 1308 words

So the answer is 42? Depends
(186+3141+1308)/3 = 1545 AVG
1308 = median
how and what you are counting matters too.

If it was so accurate
we can all just post 3,000 words of anything
unless
there is more to the story.....

 

[Graybeard]

there is more to the story.....

• Topic --popular
• Position --contrarian (limited competition)
• Uniqueness
• Literary content and educated grammar (Don't see much of that these days)
• Quality and quantity.

You may not agree with his positions but it is not mindless banter

 

[Honeybadger]

• Topic --popular
• Position --contrarian (limited competition)
• Uniqueness
• Literary content and educated grammar (Don't see much of that these days)
• Quality and quantity.

You may not agree with his positions but it is not mindless banter

I search for these day and night

1. trending topic
2. transaction related
3. high keyword searches
4. low competition
5. high product availability

 

[Graybeard]

But you are not the news or opinion like that site and its articles.
It's not the same market
They are selling subscriptions and monetizing the free content with ads.

Check the word counts of what you consider competing SERPs
That may be their edge. Stop just obsessing with what Google says and see what it does.

 

[Honeybadger]

Stop just obsessing with what Google says and see what it does.

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