I know that SERPs depends on many factors like backlinks, page authority, keywords placement etc. But I noticed that Google also look for the word count of the article. In 2010,2011 articles with 250+ word count got ranked in Google. Butin 2012,2013 the trend was different, If the post is 500+ words, itis likely to get ranked top in Google compared to 250 word countarticles. In late 2013 we can see that all SEO bloggers(who watch the SEOtrends) started to publish articles with 1500+ word count and theyranked better that the 500+ word count articles.Now I was googling for making a review about external HDDs and I found this post http://goo.gl/J54Fzm. Its word count is 12K and got ranked top for the keyword portable hdd review in just 5 days. The ranking will depend on many factors but I am a bit confused about the word count. MOZ, Searchengineland and other SEO specialists suggest in 2014 to keep the word count near to 1.5k Q: What should be the word count of an article for better ranking in 2014?NB: Please don't mark this as a duplicate question. These questions are asked two years before. And I am asking about the trend in 2014. The image attached is from a post about word count published in march-2014. What should a page's minimum word count be in order to be effectively indexed?Ideal word count per web page?
What should be the word count of an article for better ranking in 2014?
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Google doesn't care about the length of your articles.   It cares about whether your page satisfies the searchers that it sends to your site.  With that in mind, the length of your articles should be:Long enough to inform the user.Short enough that most users read the whole thing.There is no minimum length for web pages to be indexed.  Web pages often get indexed with just a page title when the content is graphical in nature.  If your pages have content that is textual, survey some users and figure out if it is enough to answer their questions.If you are worried about articles being too long, put some tracking metrics on them.   For example, implement a Google Analytics plugin for scroll depth.