If you use the keywords internet home business opportunities Will someone some one searching with Internet home business by itself find my site or do I needs to use Internet home businesses by it’s self for someone to find my site. I am trying to avoid having to use the keywords Internet home business and internet home business opportunity both as keywords to get someone to find me typing internet home businesses and internet home business opportunity
Good question. Using your example, a user search with the term internet home business will find your site that's been optimized for internet home business opportunities. As an FYI, they will also find other sites where the words internet, home, and business appear in the content, even if they're not consecutive or in order. Like your Username, by the way. HTH, Sam
Not necessarily. The current SE algorithms are insanely complex, and keywords and keyword phrases are only one piece of many that they use to determine subject and relevance. Using a ridiculously long keyword phrase, e.g. "internet home business opportunities work from home home owned business", would more than likely draw a spam penalty. Ultimately, you're looking for a perfect blend of content that's valuable to your visitors, that also includes the keyword phrases that your visitors are using as search terms - in that order. Sam
Does your quote above also apply to long directory names and file names that extend the url? example.... http://www.online-business.co.uk/internet-home-business/opportunities-work/from-home/home-owned-business.html -
That's a really good question. To be honest, I've yet to see any evidence that keyword stuffing a URL either helps or hurts SEO and rankings. In fact, the most recent data I've seen indicates that the SEs ignore keywords in URLs altogether - this would lead me to believe that this is due to keyword stuffing (much like what happened with meta tags), but I don't have any evidence to support it. If someone were to ask for my advice on it, I'd advise against it - based on the facts that there's no evidence that it's helpful, and that from a "visitor experience" perspective, it's an eyesore. Sam