If I have too many will Google ignore them or penalize me? Should I create separate pages, each having one or two keywords? What is the optimal number per page?
This is great advice. I also encourage you to have a list of target keywords that you base your content around. If you write an article I would advise only use the keyword in a single article no more than maybe 3 times. I would then underline, bold, or use italics on each use of your keyword as this tells the search engine that there is importance to this specific word or words. Does this get you to number 1 ranking. No. But it is a small step in the many steps you will take to accomplish your seo goals.
Google no longer uses keywords in ranking pages â which leaves me scratching my head wondering what use keywords are any more, unless you happen to be using a content management system that can automatically link to pages based on the keywords in their metadata.
Google will not penalize if you have more keyword in single page, it will penalize only if you have same keywords many time in a page(keyword stuffing). So be normal.
This is the reason why I use Wordpress with Good SEO plugins. Keyword stuffing is really punishable offence. Therefore I just focus on the valuable content and leave the rest on Google.
Are you talking about the keyword meta tag or the number of keyword phrases on a page as a whole? Why am I getting deja view, have we talked about this recently?
Iâm referring to the content of my page. For example, how many of my keywords can I put on my homepage? Also, lets say Iâve identified 100 keywords associated with my product, where can I place those keywords. Should I create content on separate pages and include one or two keywords on each page?
And I am talking about the meta tags. Google no longer pays attention to that content.
John, the best advice I can give you about your Web pagesâ contents is to follow the guidelines in Ginny Redishâs book, Writing for the Web: Letting Go of the Words. Make it clear, concise, and effective.
The biggest impact you can have on your search engine ranking is to make sure the title of your page is accurate and meaningful. Next, make sure the same is true of your headings. Generic headings like âIntroduction,â âConclusion,â and so on will do nothing for your rankings. And make sure the wording of links to your own pages are meaningful â âOrder Wafflestompersâ would be helpful, âClick here to order Wafflestompersâ (where only âclick hereâ appears in the link) would not.
The rest depends on getting authoritative sites to link to you. âAuthoritativeâ depends on the subject matter. If youâre blogging about music, having Sony or the major record labels pointing to your site will help you a lot; having Slate.com or whitehouse.gov pointing there wonât. If your site is a political blog, though, the opposite would be true.
Where have you seen that Google no longer cares about content? Everything Iâve ever heard from Google is content, content and more content. The entire point of every product they offer is to serve relevant content to the user. I have a hard time believing that the search algorithm has changed to ignore the content that theyâre actually serving.
Yes, authoritative and relevant links matter and when it comes to ranking in the top 3 they matter more than the content. But that isnât to say that the content doesnât matter at all. The title of your page is part of your content.
John - you should be developing your website not around keywords but around the content itself. If you write quality content that uses keywords then youâll notice your website ranking because others will be linking to you. When you talk about splitting your keywords into multiple pages it sounds like youâre worrying too much about the keywords and too little about what youâre offering your users, Googlebot included.
My advice is to keep writing quality content and to worry less about the keywords that are in it. You may end up ranking for words you didnât intend to but that are more relevant to the product youâre providing.
Thanks to everyone who has responded to my question. The responses have clarified everything for me. Now Iâm ready for the next stage through the long dark tunnel of SEO
I didnât say Google doesnât care about content. I said, âGoogle doesnât care about that content,â by which I specifically meant the entries in the keywords meta tag. (Read the comment again.)
Where did I hear that? From the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog.
A lot of places still encourage you to put the meta tags in there. Wonder if they are just that far behind the times or what.
I suspect there are other uses for the meta tags. Weâve just rolled our site into a new (to us) CMS, and it looks like weâll be able to crosslink pages based on the terms entered in the keyword meta tag.
Also, Google isnât the only search engine out there. Others might have different algorithms.
But, for the most part, I agree: Are those of us who have been conscientiously populating the keyword tags just behind the times?
Use Keyword density checker for your onpage optimization.
Keyword Density = ([Keyword Count]*100)/(Total Word Count]âŚ
Keep it with 3% to 5% in my point of view.
Isnât it ironic how much simpler SEO becomes the more you understand how it works?
Not only Google,for every search engine content is king, so be careful about keyword density, its not be so much either its treated as a keyword stuffing.
Choose keywords and utilize them effectively without over stuffing it. Incorporate your chosen keywords into your content in a way that they will be visible to the search engines.
hi
this keyword includes tags also.
or keyword in the article.
Regards,Anup Kanwar.
the ideal keyword density is b/w 3 to 7 % nearly and if more than that than it can count as keyword stuffing ( Black Hat technique)
not more than 3 keyword is fine