SEO Freelancer

Minimum Number of Pages

Is there a Minimum Number of Pages Required for Decent Organic Rankings? A recent hot topic, as question implies simplicity, strategy, tactics, user experience, link environment, site age / respect, and more.

Let us remember that:
1) web sites are made for humans, not for bots, spiders, crawlers, nor any robot (Rule #1 by Google)
2) the least of pages is greatly depends on quality of the delivered information
3) quality of content defines min efforts for info delivering.

One page is a Minimum Number of Pages. We can create a single html-page with just one image containing, for example, map of the city or metro, DIY nuclear gun scheme, UFO message to the Earthers - any image which will deliver socialy important information. People will digg it, stumble it, bookmark it, link to that page and eventually we will got a hot Page Rank. Or, we could invite Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, Time Warner to make backlinks to our single page - eventually we will got PR10.

But what about quality of content?

That seems our topic (Minimum Number of Pages) aided towards min linking structure, and rather behaves to the esoteric question of SEO Alchemists - whether there is a minimum structure of links to achieve high SEPR? That question goes directly to Google' Patent and we can suppose, probably, that - yes - Minimum Number of Pages exists! But, in every special case! with its ethics, informative structure, environment, its audience, with the inner voice and message.

This is an abstract question.

Bug and Dragon

If you are even not a fan of Opera or in case Opera is your magic powerhorse, you might be interested to know Opera alfa-released its own Developer Tools called Opera Dragonfly, which allows debug JavaScript, inspect CSS, DOM, and view any errors.

I don't know what the most popular browser SEO Freelancers use, but Firefox maniacs (as me) love additional Firefox plugins, especially beloved Firebug - a Firefox important Web Developers Add-on (created by Joe Hewitt in 2006), which is now free and open source, and available for IE, Opera and Safari.

Sooth to say, I never heard of any Web Developer with Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. But you?

Search Optimization Monkey

Recently Yahoo launched Search Monkey - an open developer platform which will allow site developers use

'semantic markup and structured data to enhance Yahoo! Search results and make them more useful, relevant and visually appealing'

For freelancing SEO Optimizer that means rise of new wave of services, widgets, microformats for SEO specialists, as we all know Yahoo delivers more quality results on backlinks, number of indexed pages. In this sense Yahoo make faces of Google with Search Monkey for Search Optimization.

Future Of SEO

IN REPLY:
In fact I very like your, Jennifer, article and surprised why nobody did it before, including me 8)
In spite of your irony on my comment, I will continue.

SEO will be the Huge Industry within Search Engine's politics forever without doubt.
SEO specialists will deliver to SE' developers human mistakes / bugs.
Nobody wants to be lost.
A huge companies (++150 employees) will seek for SEO teams which could deliver Top results.
Also we wait for RSS-specialists, which could publish RSS-streams fast and effectively.
SMO-guys wait for a special tactics similar to bulk-posting for Social communities.
Including rising of Visual Recognising SEs, we can wait for picture/image optimizers. Media optimizing - is the future of SEO specialist.
Mobile community wait for SEO specialists of mobile search optimization. XHTML isn't enough for mobile sites. Including Mobile Social Networking rise we can wait for a special mobile social network promoters in very close future.
But also Semantic Web is a new aspect of SEO freeelancers knowledge. Anyhow.

Conclusion.
SEO freelancers are the specialists of the future. A competition in search will do SEO-specialists bigger, smarter, taller of all even programmers, that is why it is unimportant how web site built: Perl, PHP, Ruby, XSL, LAMP - how cool software is - the question - what position it has.