Last week, I included in my recap a link to a Reddit thread that seems to have got some attention. It has John Mueller of Google saying a site with only 30 articles is not enough to be authoritative and be fully indexed by Google. Now people are asking if the minimum for being authoritative is having over 30 articles on your site.

The Reddit thread said “Less Than 50% Of New Articles Are Indexing — Authoritative Site.” Here is John’s response:

I think some other SEO publications picked it up and now people may be misinterpreting what John was saying. There is no specific number, it is not like if you hit 31 articles, your site is not eligible to be authoritative inGoogle Search. He was just saying, it takes time for a site to earn credibility in anyone’s eyes It is not like you write 30 articles and bam, you now are authoritative.

Here are some of those tweets – to be clear, Izzy did not feel 30 is some sort of magic number. She is saying in her tweets below that there is buzz from people in the industry that this might be a magic number. She did not believe it and wanted John to clarify, which he did and why I am covering this.

Forum discussion at Twitter.