More pages = Better Rankings?

Hello again, this is now my 2nd post of the day...I just keep thinking of new questions

I read that if you have more pages it is better for your ranking.

I am still building out the pags/content for my site. I have a FAQ section which i could easily fit in to 1 page, however is there any benefit in me splitting out each answer to its own page?

My soon to be competitors seem to be creating pages at every opportunity, do i follow suit?

IMHO if someone said more pages means more ranking, he or she probably mean more pages result in more contents therefore better for your site.

now answering your FAQ page question, if your FAQ page is going to be a long page then I would go ahead and put the answers in a different page. but if it's going to be a short FAQ then no.

more pages will leave more work...but it will make your site more informative of course, if you happen to make successful pages, definitely your site will do better in rankings...

The advantage of separate pages is that you have the opportunity to give yourself more internal links with relevant anchor text. You just want to make sure that you link back to your FAQs page from the individual answer pages.

The most important thing is to keep your users in mind when designing your page. If either method makes the interface awkward or cumbersome, drop it. Sometimes it's nice to have them all on one page so I can read the FAQs above and below the one I'm looking at.

you can check usually the numbber of indexed pages when uyou search

It is usually the first one has thousands of indexed pages

If you have more pages, you could target more business related keywords. That's all and yes if all are interlinked than you could have strong internal linking structure.

Correct me if I am wrong.

Best rgds,

Definately no true.
See the stock trading / one page site thread for example?


(I'm not saying more content doesn't help - Cutts has said it does for example, just pointing out you don't need a huge amount of pages to rank well)

Most important, make it valuable and informative. Even if you had a thousand pages, more exposure and doesnt make any sense / trash. its useless.

Its an indirect link not a direct one.

More pages if they all conatin useful information, will generate more traffic and backlinks which overtime will help your whole site to rank well.

but there is no direct correlation between how many pages on your site and how high a page on that site will rank.

To say that having more pages is better for your rankings is a gross over-simplification. It depends entirely on the quality of those pages, whether they are "necessary" to target more keywords/add more meaningful information/linkbait or whether they are full of garbage and are simply designed to increase the size of the site (in which case they won't help your rankings but will probably hurt them).

The main advantages of extra pages are:
1. The opportunity to target additional keywords (without compromising existing pages).
2. The opportunity to add quality content/link bait (to attract more incoming links).
The main disadvantage:
1. You need more incoming links to your site just if you don't want the extra pages to "dilute" your PR (in other words you need more incoming links just to maintain your existing average PR levels).

If you suddenly add hundreds of pages to your site you will usually experience a drop in PR for many of your pages and you will probably increase the number of pages which are (what used to be called) "supplemental" (ie: indexed but not listed).... in order to reverse the situation you will require additional incoming links.

Adding extra pages is fine so long as they contain meaningful content; adding extra pages purely to increase the size of the site is counter productive.

So far as your FAQ pages are concerned - as a rule of thumb - if the page contains more than 100 outlinks, or the page weight is more than 100kb, or you are targetting multiple (medium/hard) keywords (more than 3/4... "unusual" for an FAQ page) then you should split it, otherwise you probably shouldn't!

Precise targeting of keywords is the one main advantage for opting for several pages rather than one in your frequently asked questions section. Ie each keyword can be mentioned in the page url, the page h1,h2, image names, alt attribute etc. But make sure you have enough quality content to make each question worthy of its own page. Add poor quality content just to fill out a page at your peril. If you cant draw it out with something worth reading then dont bother. If it belongs on one page then do it that way.

Adding pages can expand KWs and it is beneficial for a site to target more related KWs, and getting some links for the pages might lead to a good SERP position (creating content and link building is a must)