How Long Should My Copy Be? Avoiding Google’s Thin Content Penalty for Better SEO Copywriting

Is your web content long enough? Does it have enough substance—does it add enough value? If it is, it’s in danger of getting dinged with a “thin content” penalty from Google’s Panda algorithm.

While Panda’s been around for a quite a few years now, it got asignificant update at the end of September that helps it sniff out low-quality (i.e., “thin”) content.

So, how’s this affect you? What kind of word-count should you shoot for with your web pages and blog posts? Is Google going to downgrade your valuable content? Don’t panic: as long as you’re not doing anything sketchy, you should be fine.

How Long Should My Copy Be? Avoiding Google’s Thin Content Penalty for Better SEO Copywriting

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Rick Duris is CopyRanger.

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