I have a question about having to much content on a single page. Please help :)

[mikecrib1]

I am working on a music related site. We are building a feature in our system to allow people to write information about songs on their playlist. So when a song is currently being played a user can read some cool facts or information about the song. http://imgur.com/5jFumPW ( screenshot).

Some playlists have over 100 songs and could be completely random in genre and artist. I am wondering if some of these playlists have over 5,000 words of content if that is going to hurt us? We will be very strict about making sure its non spammy and good content.

Also for the titles of the content is it bad to have over 100 h3 tags on one page? Just want to make sure we are on the right track. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

[cbielich]

Is the description associated with each song or right below it?

You could have your code just display a snippet of the description. usually the first paragraph, but then a "Read More" button and with Javascript you can have it display more when they click it. That way Google gets the content on a crawl and your users are not initiated with tons of text.

You could always do pagination as well for huge lists of songs to help keep the number down.

[CleverPhD]

If you paginate an article then you can also use the rel=prev and rel=next to help Google crawl the pages in an article.

I would be careful with UGC.  You may have someone with a list of 100 songs, but then they only comment on 20 of them.  Is it really worth showing all 100?  Seems like you would be ripe with duplicate content with all the repeated titles of songs.  Why not show the top songs with comments or maybe most played with comments?   Put the other 80 on a next page and then canonical link the additional content to the main page.

I would worry less about length and more about quality and originality.

Cheers!