Any keyword density in the range of 0%-100% is fine!
You’ve given a very limited example to back this up (ie, an image page with only one incidence of the keyword).
Yes, we all know Adobe ranks for “click here.” That doesn’t mean someone deliberately trying to rank for “click here” in a relatively short period of time shouldn’t create a keyword optimized page for it.
Let me see you rank number one for a competitive keyword with nothing on the page except that keyword repeated 500 times. Then your claim will be justified. If you want to make ridiculous claims like
So KWD of anything between 0% and 100% is fine.
provide real proof, not just anecdotal evidence that isn’t relevant to the situation discussed in the original post.
Thanks I’ll check it out. I’m using IBP right now for analyzing kw density and it seems to be a factor for yahoo when comparing it to the top 10 ranking websites.
For example if my site has a keyword density of a much lower percentage than the top 10 results for that keyword it will tell me to increase the keyword density. Vice versa for higher density.
I’m thinking it was a Google algorithm dance. After I dropped out of ranking for several days I came back in a much higher position after not touching it to see what would happen.
I’m pretty new to seo and it’s the first time I experienced this so I may have over reacted initially when I worked so hard only to drop out of rankings.
IBP is good to use, anything with a fair density scan helps if you understand how to use it. About every 2-3 months Google does ‘the dance’. A lot of poorly optimized sites tend to drop fast, but you seem to be staying on top of the science of seo so you should be fine. Glad it all worked out
To the OP. Simple build more inbound links with anchor text. With all due respect, 168 in the SERPS is not considered ranking. Continue link building until page 1.
Simply building a hell of a lot of links is not the answer however, it is a part of the solution. If your site all of a sudden acquired a lot of links, without any associated social signals to legitimize the sudden spike in interest… well your link building would be labeled as spammy. You need a natural link profile to succeed ultimately and to outrank tough competitors.
Google doesn’t exactly ‘do the dance’ anymore. There are of course algo updates which end up resulting in larger shifts for groups of sites, however the index is far more dynamic these days than most people give credit for.
On page content does matter, keyword density as such does not. The grouping of terms and the other associated keywords which appear on a page, along with other naturally occurring signals of relevance are all way more important than ‘density’.
Simply adding the target keyword in 10 times to a page means nothing, the language analysis search engines perform when ranking contents relevance to a query, goes waaaaaay beyond such simple ways of thinking about content.