Page Length Rule of Thumb

[Mont]

Is there a rule of thumb from an SEO perspective on page length (there are obviously UX considerations)?   Do Google and Bing ignore content beyond a certain length like with Page Titles? Thanks.

[EGOL]

How big are you talkin' about?

If you look at the wikipedia article for Philadelphia you will find a really long page.  I took the sentence for the Postal Service that appears at the bottom of the page and found that Google indexed it from wikipedia and many other websites - over 2/3 of which were omitted because they were similar. See SERPs Here.

This tells you that Google routinely indexes content of that length.  You can try experiments for pages of even longer length to see how they are doing.

I have a lot of long articles on my site (4000 words plus) and they pull a ton of long tail traffic.  And, I like these really long pages because I believe that the huge content impresses visitors and earns links. That's the SEO value of a big page in my opinion.