subject: Advanced Keyword Density Techniques For On Page Search Engine Optimization [print this page] Advanced Keyword Density Techniques For On Page Search Engine Optimization
Every time I write an article especially on SEO I try not to dwell on the obvious, so for those of you reading this article with no SEO experience I would suggest that you do some research on the basics of Search Engine Optimization which will help you understand exactly what I'm going to be discussing here.
Please remember that this is not an article based on how to get top rankings, but rather a solution to keyword density which in turn can improve your sites rankings.
The technique I am going to discuss here is based on keyword density for better ranking; there is so much discussion on this area that it's impossible to really know what is right or wrong and how to really apply the technique to your webpage, so I've come up with a simple solution to this problem.
Its been said time and time again that when building content one should focus on the reader and not the search engine and while I do agree with this to some extent, I also know that both are very important and deserves the same amount of attention, but personally I would lean a little more towards the search engine.
So here I am writing this article and I've only used the phrase "keyword density" once in the third paragraph, but by the time you read this article you will notice that the phrase will be place many times throughout this article including the title, do you know why?
Well, I'm doing exactly what's obvious, writing for you the reader at this moment but I know that if I depend on the search engines to pick up this article and rank it in the top ten for the phrase "keyword density" then it has to have the right density for that to happen, but what is the right keyword density. (Did you ask that question?)
Keyword Density in my opinion is the number of times a particular phrase has been used on a page, and while most people would suggest that your phrases should be placed in your title, keyword tag, description tag, h1, h2, alt tags, title tags, url tags, and so many other areas that you can think of it only boils down to one thing. Are you getting anxious?
Patience is a virtue my friend, something my mother use to tell me quite often. OK, before we get to that one thing I just want to ask a question about keyword cloud, how important do you think it is? Very Important, Not Very important, to some extent it's very important but if the keyword phrase is more prominent because of spamming then its not. So when you come across a site with the app pay attention to it.
Not long ago I was working on one of my sites and I realise that the SEO software I was using was not giving me the results that I needed although the makers even promise a money back guarantee if you don't get one of your keywords in the top ten. Then I suddenly realise that although I was doing everything as suggested by the software, the one thing missing was commonsense.
Most of these SEO software packages work on averages, by taking the top ten sites and scoring them on every element then suggesting that you try and fit somewhere in the middle, so if one site scores 50 and another scores 45 then you should try and score 47.
Good idea but there are too many ranking variables so its not always possible to achieve top ten ranking based on this technique because sites rank high for many different reasons, Fantastic Backlinks, Great Content, Niche, Good HTML validation and much more.
Now we're almost at the heart of this article on keyword density and the simple method that I use which is producing great results is now yours to ponder. Many of you would have come across this little app but not really realise how important it is because its so obvious, free, simple but trust me when I tell you it works every time.
The site I have been using is SEO Chat, there are many other apps like this one but some excludes keywords in various areas but SEO Chat shows you the total number of times the keyword phrase was used and here is the link
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-density/ - you should set the word count in the phrase option from 1 3, if your keyword is longer than 3 words then you might need to look at other areas to see how well your site is optimised.
When you analyse your site for its keyword density, the idea is to have your main keywords at the very top of the list. Now I can't tell you how many times you should use your keyword on your site but I can tell you that spamming will do you more harm than good, so the idea is to analyse other competitor sites in the top ten to see what their keyword density is and try to out rank them.
Now, if you are sceptical about my simple solution I don't blame you because it took me months to really realise how simple and easy it is to get better or higher rankings. After reading this article on keyword density why don't you try it out, take any site that ranks high for a keyword phrase and see where that phrase rank on the list. It's probably going to be the first one on the list.
If you find a site that ranks high for a very competitive keyword but does not have that keyword phrase at the top of the list, I'm more than certain that it's heavily weighted on backlinks.
I hope this little insight or simple solution gets you the ranking you deserve and if it does then send me an email, it would make me very happy.
