KEYWORD DENSITY... confusion

lovekissing · 04-30-2008, 11:17 PM

i read that keyword density is not much into the world of SEO nowadays... now my question is what does this issue covers is it when it comes to META keywords or in the content placed in the exact web page viewed by the visitors?

skysoldier · 04-30-2008, 11:23 PM

keyword density is the measurement of the keyword to total number of words in the content! Are you asking what a meta keyword is?

lovekissing · 04-30-2008, 11:29 PM

holy cow no that is not what i meant, i know what keyword density is honey... i just need a clarification what the issue of keyword density playing a minimal role in seo at the present covers--

is the keyword density when it comes to META keywords or the keyword density of content in the exact page being viewed by the visitors...

coolguy27 · 05-01-2008, 09:30 AM

They have the same usage keyword density in webcopy and metas...

Since we know that meta keywords are being stuffed by keywords they want to rank....

This keyword density is useless nowadays because it is an onpage optimization and can be easily manipulated.

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bubaipal · 05-01-2008, 11:32 AM

Keyword ensity is very less important in SEO. Just have your keywords 2-3 times on a page and it will do. Don't think packing keywords is gonna help serps. Hope that helps.

DwarduMT · 05-01-2008, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by bubaipal

Keyword ensity is very less important in SEO. Just have your keywords 2-3 times on a page and it will do. Don't think packing keywords is gonna help serps. Hope that helps.

I can tell you from experience that's not entirely true.

Packing keywords is a no-no, but these factors definitely still count:
1. Making sure keywords make up for a certain percentage of your content (5-7%)
2. Making sure keyword density in first and last paragraphs are higher than rest of content

Palm Coast Coupons · 05-01-2008, 02:18 PM

keyword density is important... keep it 5-12 % of all the readable text on that page... google doesnt care too much anymore on this in my opinion but if you break the thresh hold of 20% you may be deemed as spamming keywords... just my 2 centss

davidgeo · 05-02-2008, 01:50 AM

Its just a metrics. If you exceed the optimum level, your site could be marked as keyword spam by Search Engines.

skysoldier · 05-02-2008, 02:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by coolguy27

They have the same usage keyword density in webcopy and metas...

Since we know that meta keywords are being stuffed by keywords they want to rank....

This keyword density is useless nowadays because it is an onpage optimization and can be easily manipulated.

Yup, this is what I mean though that's why I'm asking you! btw it's already answered! thanks coolguy27

~DaRk-EyE~ · 05-02-2008, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by davidgeo

Its just a metrics. If you exceed the optimum level, your site could be marked as keyword spam by Search Engines.

Agree with this one...
Keyword density is some sort of keyword moderation because too much keyword on a particular web page would be an obvious SPAM...

Hafsoh · 05-06-2008, 01:58 AM

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Originally Posted by davidgeo

Its just a metrics. If you exceed the optimum level, your site could be marked as keyword spam by Search Engines.

Exactly, your keywords should be relevant to the site, describing it, there is no limit of use of keywords, as long as you don't spam or stuff kws..

rakeshmosaic · 05-06-2008, 03:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Hafsoh

Exactly, your keywords should be relevant to the site, describing it, there is no limit of use of keywords, as long as you don't spam or stuff kws..

Agreed...

Have a clear mind while writing your content. Use the keywords when it comes naturally to your content piece. Do not try to stuff it do it in moderation. If you want to know in %, it is 8 -10%

Also if you are good at writing you can use other related keywords in your content. I think this should help.

skysoldier · 05-06-2008, 03:50 AM

For me, as long as I give fresh info and I'm sure that I have a reliable article and i'm within 2% of the keyword density then it is enough!

francis84 · 05-06-2008, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by lovekissing

i read that keyword density is not much into the world of SEO nowadays... now my question is what does this issue covers is it when it comes to META keywords or in the content placed in the exact web page viewed by the visitors?

Keyword Density & Meta Keyword is two (2) different things.
Keyword density is the ratio of the total number of keywords to the total number of word in a PAGE. To get the keyword density, you have the formula:
Keyword Density = # of KWs in page / # of words in page.

Meta Keywords, on the other hands, is a set of KW visible to both only. Here, you keywords is listed based on it priority.