Length of review pages

[RyanWeb]

The best advice I would give is, don't write for Google, don't even write for your users. When writing an article, start from the beginning and write everything YOU would want to know about before playing at a casino. Write for yourself, pick a casino, do some research and write about the points you would want remember most. Then actually play at the casino, and write about your experience. Those are going to be the best reviews, once you can reference and be proud of. Your review will likely be on your website for years, Google's algo will change, and then change again. When you write that way, keywords will come naturally and you may even rank for unintended keywords. I have written many US reviews that way... Unfortunately I am limited to US casinos, and can't give full honest reviews of some of the top rated casinos. So I hire those out, but no one is going to do a better job on your site then yourself.

Anyway, I stand by my 500+/- words, with a few good long pages thrown in when needed. I've always done fairly well in the serps for a 1 man team.

 

[TheGooner]

Anyway, I stand by my 500+/- words, with a few good long pages thrown in when needed. I've always done fairly well in the serps for a 1 man team.

Indeed you have and that's a good recommendation - as is YOUR passion for the subject.


However, the BEST recommendation of all is ... SHOW ME THE MONEY.

Where do your monthly earnings stand ? 1-5K? 5-10K? 10-50K? 50K+?
If you are earning 10K or more per month and doing this full time then you underscore your point with REAL WORLD kudos

With conversations like this - REAL MONEY TOPICS - I would love to see where people stand.
I'd love to see a $$ value rating with posters - even if it's unverified - just to understand experience levels.

But it's unlikely to ever happen - for some reason the money is kept secret.

 

[RyanWeb]

I have always liked these https://www.affiliateguarddog.com/community/threads/how-much-do-you-make.750/page-10

 

[Vargoso]

So a resume of the ideas here:

- Lenght from 500 to 1000 words
- Include like 2,5% keywords in the post
- To write down thinking about your users and market
- To write down thinking in yourself as sharing your experience

So I will give a try this month doing a mixture to see what the traffic says

But it's unlikely to ever happen - for some reason the money is kept secret.

Yep, it's quite cool to see the forums with "let's share our knowledge" phrases in the main page and the reading the typical "I would not share that"

 

[RyanWeb]

I'm pretty open about everything. I also enjoy helping others, as well as learning from others experience.

Only hesitant to post some info publicly, to the entire world. But if any fellow affiliates want to know anything more specific, I'm more then happy to share in a PM or private thread.

 

[Batman]

I'm very open to anything however I only got back into being an affiliate in December 2017 after many Years away.

I was all about poker then really with some casino mixed in. Went from £30k a Month to literally nothing due to some affiliate programs closing, and others being down right rouges.

But now I'm back and am treating it as starting all over again and learning from fresh, but with a bit of knowledge. It seems a lot harder now though mainly because the forums I used to use are pretty dead and a lot of old contacts have gone.

The reason for this post was to get feedback for me and others and to opinions from more experienced that can help make an informed decision.

All that said I would love to have a mentor to help with rankings and call to action which may be my weakest point.

I'll also add some reviews of different lengths and a mix of in-depth and brief overviews and see what difference is. Obviously this will be difficult to gauge because of well....everything!

Thanks very much to everyone who replied, it's much appreciated.

 

[Batman]

And to help with grammar, because once again I've just read that back!!

 

[AussieDave]

Casino Reviews etc... What sets a great review above others? Is if it sounds genuine.

After all these years, I'm still mystified how someone can promote a product, but not be interested in said product.

My advice (as others have said)... write content which you'd like to read. Don't make everything positive, try to be objective.

 

[Batman]

Don't make everything positive, try to be objective.

I struggle with this on the occasion, especially when you have been given an excellent hybrid deal. Suddenly everything about the casino is amazing! In reality parts of it are shockingly bad.

I'm Going to add a note on my board to always be honest with reviews no matter what!

 

[NDG]

If you can incorporate visitor feedback into the review, then it also gives more
legitimacy to the review. It's not just an affiliate hyping up the casino in order
to draw in players. Real players can give input about the casinos too.

 

[eenzoo]

After all these years, I'm still mystified how someone can promote a product, but not be interested in said product.

IMO that´s a quite old school point of view on sales
I don´t gamble at all. For me personally, it´s boring and a huge waste of money but a business.
I didn´t wrote just a single review (or other content) for my sites. Why should I waste my time on a task who can other deliver better and cheaper?!

 

[Mason Jones]

I typically use reviews of around 1200 to 1500 words. Works best for me.

 

[Rick Perry]

According to the latest Google Quality Guidelines is the length still important..

 

[xecutable]

It is but not in terms of some useless metric, the way many people see it. "If I write 1200 article (review, guide, whatever), im going to rank well".

Can a car salesman sale a car, by describing the car you wanna buy in 2 sentences? Probably, most likely NOT. He is gonna give you a DETAILED description, for the sake of convincing you to buy it, not because on a list he read that the best car salesman, use 1500 words to convince their clients. Catch my drift?

 

[Deathstar]

really good thread this guys, thanks for sharing all this info. Massive help to newbies like me

 

[Zamsino]

Don't focus to much on the text length, focus on elements that will keep your users on the site and use it for the longest moth interactive way possible.

 

[LandofOz]

I usually order articles that are between 400-500 words long. I'm not sure if people actually have the time and patience to sit there and read ultra long reviews.

 

[themilann]

Awesome info!

Thanks, folks!

 

[xecutable]

I usually order articles that are between 400-500 words long. I'm not sure if people actually have the time and patience to sit there and read ultra long reviews.

I actually wondered the same, so I installed crazy egg for a while to see videos of the user sessions. They read. In fact they read and then scroll back up a bit to key points and read again. The average time was about 3m 11s 05. And that's nearly 99% mobile traffic.

In addition unless you are the rank 1 spot, you'd be trying to convert users that have already passed on rank 1, 2, 3, 4 etc whatever your page 1 position is.

If they have passed those sites, it can be for various reasons: not interested in registering just reading reviews, the sites above you did not create urgency and left the user in-between, their sales pitch sucks.

After all how MORE creative can you get with a review right? But the visual representation and the sales pitch as well as the colors?

If I was selling you the national lottery and went "Come buy a ticket with your odds to win 1 to 14,000,000" "Buy Now" and then A/B tested with "Do you wanna be a millionaire and win over 15,000,000" "Buy your ticket now" it's pretty obvious which would pull ahead right?

In both cases you are selling the same product.

 

[PROFRBcom]

We are big fans of multi-thousand word reviews. We have found it helpful in most cases to expand our reviews from their original form to being very expansive. With that said, we do not care much about mobile traffic and focus on the desktop users so that is who we try to rank for.