Procedure pages should be 1,000 to 2,000 words. Location pages should be 800 to 1,500 words. Blog posts should be 1,200 to 2,500 words. These ranges reflect what ranks well in competitive cosmetic markets without becoming padded or unfocused. Length should serve the reader, not chase a word count target.
Length is not a direct ranking factor but correlates with the depth and comprehensiveness of content, which is. A 2,000-word rhinoplasty page that addresses procedure variations, candidacy, recovery, cost, and surgeon selection comprehensively covers the topic in a way that shorter pages cannot. This comprehensiveness is what earns rankings, not the word count itself.
Some practices pad pages with redundant information to hit arbitrary word counts. This produces content that ranks poorly and converts worse, patients who encounter obviously padded content lose confidence in the practice's credibility. Every paragraph should add information a prospective patient would find genuinely useful. When you run out of useful things to say, the page is the right length.
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Book Free Audit →Uday Rajaram is the founder of Medical Marketing Firm. He has spent 22 years in digital marketing, starting as a developer in New York, and has run Google Ads, SEO, and AI search programs for more than 100 medical and cosmetic practices. He is the author of Earned Traffic.
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