Size really does matter

We've all heard the expression "size doesn't matter" well in relation to SEO it does.

Amongst other things the size of your website - the amount of pages it consists of - determines how important Google considers it to be. The more importance Google places on your website the higher up the search results your website will appear.

A good example of this is the encyclopedia website www.wikipedia.org
The Wikipedia website consists of over 15 million pages.
These are just the number of pages that Google has indexed at this moment in time.

Quite often when you search on Google the Wikipedia website appears at #1, try it, search on the keyword SEO, you will see that the #1 result is a page from www.wikipedia.org

The same goes for a lot of the most popular keywords, try sex, you will see that the Wikipedia website is on the first page for this keyword, and this is from over 600 million competing websites.

Now this is not necessarily because these pages from the Wikipedia website have been optimised for these keywords.
It's because Google places such importance on the Wikipedia website.

So, there you have it, in SEO terms, size really does matter.

Myles.