The Ideal Word Count for a Home Page

Jan 17, 2005 - 11:27 am 0 by
Filed Under SEO Copywriting

A HighRankings thread asks the question, what is the ideal word count for a home page. And a quick and witty reply by a forum moderator read;

Copy should be like a woman's skirt, long enough to cover the essentials, short enough to be interesting.

How funny...

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