Keyword density penalisation

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    Finally I think I have discovered why my home page has been de-indexed!
    I had over optimised my keywords!!! I had 1 keyword at 15%, I know that sounds a lot but that included all my alt tags and meta tags. So the actual on page content did read OK. I stupidly thought that it was more keyword phrases that I was optimising for but I now realise that it is individual words. Stupid me, just goes to show that a little knowledge is a bad thing, well for me anyway. I have now corrected things and my max density is down to 9%.

    So the question is how do I get my home page re indexed??
    Is there any way back???????
     
    ched, Jan 12, 2007 IP
  2. mad4

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    I would bet you £100 that it was nothing to do with keyword density.

    Submit a re-inclusion request using webmaster central to see.
     
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    stOx Notable Member

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    Keyword density means nothing. It's neither going to have your site rank well nor get you penalized.
     
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  4. ched

    ched Active Member

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    Finally I think I have discovered why my home page has been de-indexed!
    I had over optimised my keywords!!! I had 1 keyword at 15%, I know that sounds a lot but that included all my alt tags and meta tags. So the actual on page content did read OK. I stupidly thought that it was more keyword phrases that I was optimising for but I now realise that it is individual words. Stupid me, just goes to show that a little knowledge is a bad thing, well for me anyway. I have now corrected things and my max density is down to 9%.

    So the question is how do I get my home page re indexed??
    Is there any way back???????
     
    ched, Jan 12, 2007 IP
  5. jakomo

    jakomo Well-Known Member

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    Hi!

    mmmm I don't know if it is a problem, there are pages ranking top 5 in Google, and they have around 25% (keyword density)...

    Best regards,
    Jakomo
     
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    I had the same situation about 1 week ago, noone on this forum could answer my question! The only way to fix it, do following

    In your google site map, make your home page from 0.5 to 1, so it differentiate it from the rest of the pages. Get rid of the extra keywords, make sure you have a name of your domain in the title, description and keywords

    for instance if it is www.mishon.com then put mishon in all your metatags.
    Make your page for humans not for robots. Plus put the link to all the subpages in the footer that links back to your home page.

    Hope this helps!
     
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  8. ched

    ched Active Member

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    Thanks for all the suggestions.

    I posted it again as I thought that SEO might only be read by a small number of people and I thought I might get a better response from the main Google forum. But on reflection I think the SEO forum is probably best as people who are into SEO and not this current 'PR' juggling that is going on.

    Once again thanks for all the help.
     
    ched, Jan 12, 2007 IP