Posts Tagged "Word count"

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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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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