Google's John Muller confirmed: "Word count is not a ranking factor. Save yourself the trouble."
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Google's John Muller confirmed: "Word count is not a ranking factor. Save yourself the trouble."
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Google's John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that Google does not use word count as a ranking factor. He wrote "Word count is not a ranking factor."
I mean, this is literally short and to the point and I am not sure how many ways you can look at this and interpret this a different way? It was in response to someone looking for a tool to analyze the word counts of the top Google listings for a specific query.
John Mueller from Google responds "Word count is not a ranking factor. Save yourself the trouble."
SEO consultants recommended that every page has at least 250 words. In fact, a 2017 study by ahrefs found the average #1 ranking page will also position for about 1,000 related keywords — which is something super-short content can't do.