Posts Tagged "Keyword density"

Understanding Word Count

Posted by on May 15, 2010 in Search Engine Optimization | 1 comment

Understanding Word Count

Understanding Word Count Obviously, word count alone won’t determine your search ranking, but it may be one of many factors to consider when writing for optimization.  To understand what works, consider successful sites in your industry and follow their example. We can learn a lot from modeling industry leaders – how do they use keywords?, do H1 tags matter?, and how long are their posts?  By doing so, we hope to garner Best Practices to improve our work and ultimately increase traffic and conversion on our own sites. First and foremost – you should write to provide value to the reader, not just to meet an arbitrary word count goal.   Simply...

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SEO Glossary – Stop Words

Posted by on May 3, 2010 in SF Business Services | 2 comments

SEO Glossary – Stop Words

Image via Wikipedia STOP WORDS Certain words, such as “the,” “a”, “if,” “of,” and “with,” are extremely common and don’t provide meaning for search relevancy.  Most search engines don’t include them in their index, or database, of web page content. The stop words on your web pages are disregarded, as if those words didn’t exist in the text.  Typically, this is a non-issue except when the stop word is crucial to the search – for example – when you are search for Pete Townsend’s band “The Who.” List of English Stop Words (list, PHP Array, MySQL Stop Words) Including a lot of stop words in your title tag dilutes the title tag’s...

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Are keywords dead?

Posted by on Oct 24, 2009 in Websites | 0 comments

Are keywords dead?

Image via Wikipedia Back in March, we asked this question. Most of you thought if they weren’t dead, they were probably on life support. Here’s what Google had to say recently - Google doesn’t use the “keywords” meta tag in our web search ranking. What does this mean? Should we eliminate keywords? There are those who say save the space, don’t include them. Google acknowledges keywords neither help or hurt you at this point (your not penalized for having them), and there are some other sites that still look at them. Further, Google hasn’t ruled out that it may revisit using them in the future. Bottom line it’s the content that makes the difference....

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Keyword Density

Posted by on Mar 5, 2009 in Search Engine Optimization | 2 comments

Keyword Density

Image via Wikipedia Keyword density is how often your keywords show up in the text of your site. If they never show up – then the text and the keywords seem unrelated – if you over do it then it’s just a spam site. But as poor Goldilocks found out – it’s not always easy to get it just right. No more then 2-3% of you text should focus on one variation of a keyword or keyword phrase. Some people debate this and will say 4-5% and some will even go as far as 7%. Google tends to like a lower keyword density, so err on the low side Related articles by Zemanta Keyword Density (ronmedlin.com) [SEO] How to Use keywords Effectively in Your...

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Understanding Keyword Density

Posted by on Mar 1, 2009 in Search Engine Optimization | 0 comments

Understanding Keyword Density

Image via CrunchBase Keyword density is how often your keywords show up in the text of your site. If they never show up – then the text and the keywords seem unrelated – if you over do it then it’s just a spam site. But as poor Goldilocks found out – it’s not always easy to get it just right. No more then 2-3% of you text should focus on one variation of a keyword or keyword phrase. Some people debate this and will say 4-5% and some will even go as far as 7%. Google tends to like a lower keyword density, so err on the low side Related articles by Zemanta Keyword Density (ronmedlin.com) Can Too Much Keyword Density Be Interpreted as...

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