Hi I have a two fold question here for seo experts. #1 : Is it good to use title tag in anchor tags and Alt tag in Image tags to increase keyword density? What is the limit of characters we should put ideally on such tags? #2: What would be the impact of increasing keyword density on overall onsite SEO of the page? Does that gives advantage on ranking well for keywords? I invite an interesting debate on this subject.
Hi i believe the recommended limit of words in your title tag is about 5, as for the image tags i am not too sure, the anchor text should include your main keywords and most assumably the words that are included in your title tag. Secondly the effects of increasing the keyword density would be positive unless you was to go over the top and make the keyword density over 7-9% this is the recommended maximum i believe. The effects of having the keyword density at about 7% would be that you should see your site move up in the search engine ranking positions for certain keywords that you have implemented in to your website. Will.
alt tags should be used naturally to describe the image. if keywords fit, use them, otherwise its spamming. title tags dont seem to make very much difference, anchor text is the important one. and keyword density is a bit of a myth from what I can gather. as long as it's no higher than 7% it should be fine.
is there any official forum or article defining the limit of characters or words in alt tag and title of anchor tag?
Check these 2 articles: Tips on using ALT Tags For Optimizing Image, Title Tag Optimization They have enough info to learn !! Well for your kind info: Keyword Density is no more a big factor for rankings !! Search Google for Search Engine and tell me how many times the site on #1 used this word ?
keep body text keyord desity at about 3-5% IN the title keyword etc towards the begining and at around 30-60%
IMO, keyword density has not a big factor on SEO... Keep focusing on how you optimize your Title Tag and Alt tags...
Keyword density is a fossile when it comes to search engine optimizing; writing content naturally for visitors will provide the search engines with enough keywords. Do not write content for search engines, write it for your visitors. Below is a link to an article called Keyword Density of Non-Sense that was written by Dr. E. Garcia and explains how in current modeled search algorithms it would be useless to use any form of keyword density factor. http://www.e-marketing-news.co.uk/Mar05/garcia.html
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