Are Long Articles Better For SEO?

Are Long Articles Better For SEO? A question arises about the word count or word count in a blog article. According to the news, long articles are better for ranking in search results.

After Google can read the entire blog post page, Google prefers pages that have more text.

The length of a blog post is generally enough with 400 words, it can be said as the standard length of a blog post. But if it can be longer then it will be better.

To straighten the understanding of this long article, that articles made long are not necessarily good for SEO, may not necessarily get good rankings on search pages.

It could be an article with 2000 words or more could be defeated by an article that only has a smaller number of words. It could be that an article with only 400 words beats a long article with 1000 words or 2000 words or more.

If we only stick to the length of the article, only count the number of words so that up to 2000 words without regard to the quality of the article, then this can make your writing a waste.

If your writing is only to meet the criteria of a long article so that your writing extends everywhere abysmally out of the topic of the article, then this is no better than a short article that only has 400 words with a simple, dense, and clear discussion with use the right keywords.

So, what is a long and good article on SERP?

Create a quality long article

Then how to make a long or quality article or post?

There are two criteria that must be met so that long articles that are made well in SERP and become redundant, namely: favored by search engines and favored by readers.

1. Favored by search engines

Make articles with the most searched keywords. Suggestions for making long articles are intended so that the placement of keywords in the article becomes more and more evenly distributed. That way, the keywords in the article are increasingly diverse so that they can be relevant to many search keywords, because now the keywords are not enough just in the search description.

Especially now that long tail keywords apply, users no longer only use short keywords but many use long keywords like a question.

With long posts, it allows us to make a combination of keywords into a variety of long tail keywords become more.

But avoid using excessive keywords, keywords that are repeated, or placement of many keywords in paragraphs.

Make a keyword that blends with the sentence with a variety of variations so that it remains easy to read by visitors.

2. Liked by the reader

It is also important to pay attention to the audience or reader. Make articles that readers like, so they can read all of their writings.

Articles that ramble and digress everywhere will certainly not be liked by visitors. Instead of opening other pages or sharing posts on social media, but they will immediately close the page because it is considered useless and boring.

Make articles that are useful for visitors, make articles that can solve the problems they are facing, make articles that are detailed so that they can be better understood and become solutions to their problems.

Detailed articles that sort the root of the problem topic will automatically make the article long but not boring.

Dividing the article into sub-sections according to the topic of discussion, of course this will make long articles become more interesting to read and become clear enough to be understood.

That way, the user experience or reader experience for the page gets better. Without having to be forced, readers will share our posts to their social media because they are considered useful and can help others with similar problems.

Conclusion

The goal is to make a long article so that keyword placement becomes more diverse so that it is liked by search engines. Long articles are also made so that they can better explain the topic in more detail so that it can be better understood and liked by the reader.

But of course all articles do not have to be long, it must also be adjusted to the topic of the post so that it becomes straightforward.

 if you use Adsense and activate auto ads, then a long article provides many opportunities for auto ads to insert Adsense ads between paragraphs.