There is often this misconception that in order for your pages to
rank, you need at least 500 words on a page or some other number.
That
is not true. Ranking is dependent on a ton of factors, and while more
words on a page may help Google understand the relevance of the page to
the query - it doesn't necessarily mean the page will rank.
He wrote:
Rest
assured, Googlebot doesn't just count words on a page or in an article,
even short articles can be very useful & compelling to users. For
example, we also crawl and index tweets, which are at most 140
characters long. That said, if you have users who love your site and
engage with it regularly, allowing them to share comments on your
articles is also a great way to bring additional information onto the
page. Sometimes a short article can trigger a longer discussion -- and
sometimes users are looking for discussions like that in search. That
said, one recommendation that I'd like to add is to make sure that your
content is really unique (not just rewritten, autogenerated, etc) and of
high-quality.
So clearly John is saying there is no magic number - the most important thing is how unique and valuable that content is.
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