How Many Words?

**james9888** · 04-19-2011, 01:34 PM

OK, for some reason, I guess I read it somewhere, I though for SEO a good length for an article was about 600 words.

Also, a pal (successful aff chap) told me that the ideal length to increase conversions is 250 words (based on someone else's research).

I had been keeping new articles short.

But (big butt)

Just looked at my most popular articles in the SE's and they are all in the range 800-1500 words.

Got me thinking:

**micalaston** · 08-03-2011, 05:06 AM

800-1000 word is enough for article submission

**Agent Campus** · 08-03-2011, 06:02 AM

It's not about the number of words or letters you use in your article to get conversions. heck it ain't the search engines who are going to buy your products or services through your article so stop creating them for the search engines. Create those articles for the people who are going to buy and actually pay for your products and services. As long as the article is descriptive but brief, people are going to like it and as long as the content is original, search engines are going to rank it.

**tricialicious** · 01-12-2012, 05:35 AM

i follow ezine and squidoo word / article which is 400... and is a good standard IMHO

**sandrah** · 01-14-2012, 10:49 PM

In fact 250 words for an article is more than enough as people don;t usually read articles which are long and having such a length it is ok to put enough keywords there.

**WinaltHome** · 02-24-2012, 08:01 AM

Originally Posted by james9888

OK, for some reason, I guess I read it somewhere, I though for SEO a good length for an article was about 600 words.

Also, a pal (successful aff chap) told me that the ideal length to increase conversions is 250 words (based on someone else's research).

I had been keeping new articles short.

But (big butt)

Just looked at my most popular articles in the SE's and they are all in the range 800-1500 words.

Got me thinking:

The standrad lenght for an article is 500 words. It does not need to be so long - as long as your articles is well explained and written about what it is and what it conveys in around 500-600 words.