I am trying to optimize my site for search engines. I have looked some articles in this regard as i am still new for SEO. Now i am stuck up with the keyword density issue and have some doubts regarding this:-
Is keyword density still useful for a website as some article authors say yes and some say that it is the thing of past.
If at all it is useful then how much in percent shall i use in a web page.
How many keywords should be a limit for using in meta tags.
what should be the limit of the keyword (one word OR two words OR more)
Keyword density is very important with search engine optimization. You want to make sure you aren’t keyword stuffing your website with keywords. Write for your users and allow the keywords to flow NATURALLY. A good rule of thumb is for every 100 words or so, include a keyword.
Wrong! Search engines don’t care about keyword density. Their language algorithms are a million times more sophisticated than saying “There are 1000 words on this page and keyword is mentioned 40 times so this page is about keyword”. Write in natural language, use keywords or their synonyms where they’re appropriate and fit in with the flow of words.
per a web page 3 t0 4 % of Keyword density is best for the indexing.
Wrong! There is no best value for keyword density. If it was possible to manipulate the search engines so that using your keyword 3 or 4 times in every 100 words would magically propel you up the SERPs then search engines would be completely worthless. If you mention a keyword 3 or 4 times in every 100 words of text, that’s going to be horrible to read, completely overkill, and will make you sound like Eliza Bot. Even on the off-chance that you get anyone visiting your site, they’ll see your keyword-stuffed text and run away as fast as they can.
2 to 3 keywords are enough to using in meta tags.
Title:-we can use up to 100 Characters and with Keyword stuffed)
Description:-we can use up to 250 Characters with keyword stuffed
Keywords:-we can use up to 1000 Characters
Wrong! As I’ve said in another thread where you’ve posted the same rubbish:
[list][]It is recommended you cap your title at about 60 characters (although there is no absolute limit), because anything longer is likely to be truncated in SERPs. A title of 100 characters will be abbreviated.
[]If your description is more than about 160 characters, search engines will almost certainly shorten it. You may consider that a worthwhile compromise if you need more than the length of a text message to fully describe the page, and then users will see whatever bit of the snippet or page contents the SE thinks is most relevant.
[*]Keywords are largely irrelevant, because Google completely ignores them. if you can be bothered with them, you should try to keep to a maximum of about 10 keywords per page - any more than that and search engines lose interest.[/list]
better to take combination of keywords. 2 to 3 words for each keyword.
Optimise your site for whatever words and phrases people are likely to search for. There’s no point in putting all your effort into targeting “bargain value accommodation” when people are typing “cheap hotel” into Google. A worryingly high proportion of people do only make single word searches, even when a short phrase would increase the chance of good results dramatically.
Yes, it should match your primary keyword in the title tag to increase relevancy for the page.
This is the problem. Don’t base it on %, add keywords only when it makes sense. It’s so annoying to see stupid keyword stuffing like: “Are you looking for Cheap Samsung HDTVs? I found some Cheap Samsung HDTVs the other day when I was looking for Cheap Samsung HDTVs.”
Include at least some variation in description. Keywords tag doesn’t matter.
Please show your findings & evidence to support this number? Why not 2.7%, why not 4.6%?
So 2 to 3 keywords in the keywords meta tag but also 1000 characters? And you suggest people “keyword stuff” their meta tags? Really, really bad advice there.
Why optimise for a 2-3 word phrase if your main keyword is one word?
Yes it is. You need external links with keyword anchor text, but you also need a balance with keywords shown in your text on pages of your website. And they should be written for the reader, not search engines and include different versions of the keyword and add long tail versions if heavily searched.
Now entirely correct Stevie. This has been discussed endlessly on this forum and the conclusions that were drawn are that there is no 'magic ’ keyword density that will help your rankings abut there is a keyword density that if you exceed it will trip a filter, it might vary by page but at the end of the day keyword density matters, don’t over do it.
Is keyword density still useful for a website as some article authors say yes and some say that it is the thing of past.
I don’t think that its matter although i try my best to take care of it and read many articles but my personal experience is that it has no effect. One of my client site was on first page of Google with keyword density for that particular word above 6%.
If at all it is useful then how much in percent shall i use in a web page.
I read some where
Total Word Count: 500
keyword use: 12
density = (12*100)/500
How many keywords should be a limit for using in meta tags.
155 to 160 characters, above it Google truncate them.
what should be the limit of the keyword (one word OR two words OR more)
I don’t know the exact source but wording of that is normally more searches are done on 2 words keywords about 30 to 35% then 3 word phrases and then 1 word phrase. I follow the same don’t know about others.
yes density of keyword matters in web search on spiders.the high density of keywords enable a crawler in refine web search.
But the following factors that show with actual rank differences is:
a) Volume of inbound links
b) Quality/Relevance of inbound links
c) Anchor text usage
d) Page Title Tags
e) To a lesser extent Alt Text usage on images
Put it this way:
Site 1
Heavy on page SEO (i.e., keyword density, optimized title tags, urls etc)
Site 2
No real on page SEO except an optimized page title
Site 2 would win in a rank competition purely from the volume and quality of their links. If it was really closely matched then at this point some of the on-page SEO stuff might start to play into the decision.
See your search-engine listed keywords in webmasters admin. The keywords have relevancy according to their occurrences. When somebody searches something, the search engines tries to show more relevant site first.
And see the micro bloggers like twitter accounts - who have lots of keywords.
Without a proper distribution of those selected words, your article does not become tasty - neither to humans, nor to the search engines.
Search engine work through an algorithm. i think you know that. Example: Can you please search “ How can I” sentence in Google. See the results to display. Actually in our consideration , search engine have to display exact keyword sites in the top.
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I think u got it now. Here there is no exact keyword. So search engine search on the base of combination of words. Like How I, How can, Can I etc.
Please show your findings & evidence to support this number? Why not 2.7%, why not 4.6%?
I am sorry, It’s a cross Question. I said it approximate. U can take more density but some times more density in content search engine thought that we are manipulating.
Meta tags are the reference of the web page to the search engine. That’s why I suggest meta tags are related to keywords and those keywords are related to content. Whats the wrong on that one. If you thought this is wrong. Tell me the alternate solution for this.
Concentrate on writing content which is related to the topic. Having the keyword in the headline and page title of course but then focus more on unique, meaningful and topical content.
Do not focus on X% of keyword density. Natural language analysis in the search engines goes way beyond keyword density.
“Keyword density” is, and always has been, a waste of time. There is no silver bullet. There is no magic formula whereby if you use a particular word so many times per hundred words on the page you will get the top spot in Google. That doesn’t happen; their algorithms are much, much, much more sophisticated than that. Use words appropriately in the context of the page. Write naturally flowing text that is easy and enjoyable to read. If you try to get your keyword density to artificially equal some magic number (which doesn’t exist), you’ll end up with stilted prose that looks like it came from Eliza Bot, and nobody wants to read that.
I’m of the opinion that keyword density is not a proven, meaningful SEO tactic. So I don’t bother with it. There has been plenty of debate about it on SP, and a consensus that it’s a myth from folks who are in the know:
There is no correct percentage or score. People who are quoting a % are guessing.
The recommendation used to be roughly up to 10 keywords in the meta tag but now Google ignores the keywords meta tag, so that should give you an indication of how little value, if any, it still has. If you’re optimising specifically for Yahoo then use it otherwise don’t bother.
There is no real limit. If you’re optimising for a keyword, that’s a single word. If you’re optimising for a keyphrase that’s multiple words.
You have to consider two things when writing content to your website. Your readers, and the search engine spiders. So keyword density is important as long as your keywords has been carefully researched for competition and search volume. Try not to over stuff keywords for obvious reasons. Doing that would be like keyword stuffing- a black hat SEO technique which violates google’s TOS
Do you actually read threads before you post in them? How, then do you explain all the experts in this thread and all the links to experts in this thread that say its not important.
