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==Article length==
There does seem to be debate on how long an article can be and still rank well. The gentleman who trained me states you should not go over 70K for an article. One reason for this advice is the many people still use dialup internet service. If your article is very long it will take long to load and some people with dialup who click on your article will give up if the page takes too long to load. However, there is a way around this and it will be explained below.
Generally speaking it is harder to rank well for very short stubby articles.
SEO expert Aaron Wall of [http://www.seobook.com/4515.html SEO Book] states the page length should be optimized for the user experience. Aaron Wall states at [http://www.seobook.com/4515.html SEO Book] that "Since Google's relevancy algorithms are looking more for natural writing, the value of having small hyper-focused pages is not as good as it once was...good copy gets just as much traffic for long tail keywords you didn't intend on optimizing for."
===Way to Avoid Your Article Appearing Too long or Taking Too Long to Load===
There is a way to avoid your appearing too long when initially looking at the page. Also, you can avoid the article/webpage from taking too long to load for dialup internet surfers. In other words, you can have your article be more than 70K if you wish. You do this by creating a landing page with no more than 70K of material and then you have a tab on the bottom saying "Explore More Now!" or something similar like this article does:
http://www.darwins-theory-of-evolution.com/
==A word of warning==