I'm having a hard time knowing when to break content into its own page. Been bashing my head against this article all week. Trying not to make it a beast, but it keeps getting bigger and I'm starting to pushing 4000 words and haven't filled out all my headings and FAQs
I'm working on I guess a "comprehensive guide to X". It's I suppose a relatively broad category topic. While doing some SERP analysis, I noticed a bit of a mix between a buyers guide a what is/ how to guide.
To me as someone looking for a guide to doing X, I would think you'd want to learn the "what, when, why, and where's" about the topic as well as what to look for when buying it.
I guess as a similar example I could use a wrench to explain how my content is structured:
Title: comprehensive guide to wrenches
- What is a wrench
- When and where to use a wrench?
- How to use a wrench
- Types of wrenches(each type would link to its own subpage: best 6 point wrench, best 8 point wrenches, best pipe wrenches, etc and those might have more FAQs and a specific buyers guide I suppose)
- Materials wrenches are made from and how it effects the usability (example doesn't exactly match, but you get the idea)
- Shapes of wrenches
- Colors of wrenches and how it effects usability (again doesn't really apply to wrenches I guess lol)
- Storing and caring for wrenches
- Wrench modifications
- FAQs: wrench vs ratchet, choosing the appropriate wrench size, etc.
The example is obviously not a direct example and not all the sections would make sense in either article per day but hopefully you get the idea.
A lot of these sections can definitely be expanded on further, and I just briefly touch on some of them so the reader who knows nothing would at least know said thing exists and could come back to it later.
I plan to link those sections and the more open ended topics/discussions out to individual pages when/if I get to writing them, but I wanted to truly cover the topic and make, well kind of the ultimate guide.
I find most of these guides that are ranking are pretty half assed written and they're just like "wrench is a tool used by mechanics and handymen. Wrenches are good tools to use on cars and machinery. Use wrenches to make working on machines easier." And I don't feel like I'm learning anything.
The keywords have somewhat strong DA domains behind them but most of the individual pages have pretty mediocre backlinks. The keywords the pages are ranking for have decent search volumes so it'd be awesome to outrank these sites hopefully.
Is there anything wrong with the approach I'm taking? I'm not a great content writer but I feel like I should be nearly done with this article by now (been like a week or so of part time working on it, maybe pushing 40 hours?).
I have some worries I may be trying to force it to be "the ultimate guide"? I know it's a very nuanced and broad topic and a lot of stuff surrounding it is preferential. Is this normal? This is my first site I've followed through as far as I have on my own and am trying to do things right so I don't have to come back and fix things too much later. Also don't have much domain authority and backlinks yet so I think I need to really bail my on-page SEO. It's also sort of a passion project...
My concern comes from my last article I did like this (5000 words) which doesn't seem to rank well. While to me, I'd expect to see all this stuff in one chapter in a book, but Im beginning to think Google may have a difficult time understanding it? Or, do these massive guides take more time to rank maybe?
Sorry my question isn't well defined I guess I have a lot of questions concerns unsureness...lol
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