Google on Best SEO Practices for Short News Articles
In the recent Google Search Central SEO hangout recorded on 19th February 2021, Google’s John Mueller has answered some questions about best SEO practices for news sites, especially since it relates to uploading short articles. According to Mueller, news websites need not worry too much about the length of their articles as sometimes short content is better for a given search query. During the latest Google Search Central SEO hangout, Mueller answered a question put forward by an SEO practitioner who manages a news website. She wanted to know the risks of having shorter articles regarded as thin content. Further adding to her statement, she said that she is even thinking about noindex-ing the shorter articles, which can be as short as a paragraph in length, in case this will help her website in search rankings. Now, these concerns are valid since Google is known to devaluate thin content. Moreover, Google’s Panda update is designed to minimize the prevalence of low-quality thin con