Does number of words on a page have importance?

[MickeX]

Can an HTML page that have 2000 words on it getting better result than an HTML page with 1000 words, if the keyword density is the same for the searched keywords?

Will Google care about the number of times the words exist on the page or does Google only care about the keyword density and where the words are placed on the page?

If I for example create an HTML page optimized around the keywords "CD" and "Burner", will a page with 2000 words getting higher than a page with only 1000 words (optimized around the same words), when searching with Google?

Does the number of words in the page have any importance?

What do you think?

[clasione]

I think it the overall size of the document that counts, but yes - the bigger the better and the more words the better....

My guess is that if two pages were thought to be relitive - google would choose the larger file...
If I was behine the algo - I would want to give my users the most information possible...

I'd serve the page with the most info and images...

Google says it'll index 100K - so I always try to supply around 100K of information per document.

[sem-seo-pro]

Hi there

Actually too many words on a page does you no good.

Spider bots can only store so much information.

For example they only read 88 characters in title tags.

For page content the best is about 700 to 750 words.

Repeat keyword terms three (3) to four (4) times each in the content.

Also you will gain higher Page Rank as you increase the number of pages on your website and this allows you to focus the page to 1 or 2 specific keyword terms.

Remember when trying to optimize a page for your keywords that are in your title or metas that after the 3rd, term your competiton will win in the serps for your fourth keyword term if they make it their 1st or 2nd keyword term.

Hope this helps
Clint

[sem-seo-pro]

Hi

Another benefit of keeping pages to 700 750 words is load time. Google loves speed. They measure how fast it takes themselves to return results.

So the faster a page loads the better chance it gets to the front pages.

Clint

[Duncan Pollock]

I can't help thinking the question should be the number of words in a website rather than on a webpage. If content is king -- and I'm among the subscribers to this belief -- the more you say about your topic the better. Thus 2000 words will carry more weight than 1000 (provided they aren't the same ones repeated twice, of course!), but I don't think they necessarily have to be on a single page. In fact, the content probably has (and even ought to have) a number of paragraphs to it and these can certainly be spread over two pages instead of one. Thus, you can use NEXT / CONTINUED / MORE etc. if you're concerned about loading time.

Duncan

[scallihan]

The problem with too many words is that they dillute the importance of your targeted keyphrase(s). If you have too much text, you need to repeat your keyphrase too many times to maintain its importance (relative to the rest of the text), while risking triggering a spam filter (for repeating your keyphrase too many times). A smaller amount of text allows maintaining keyphrase density, without spamming.