In your best ranking keyword, what is the keyword density for the page? I'm trying to experiment a bit with keyword density - would love to know how thick your keywords are. Whitehat answers please.
From my expirience not realy,SE will rank higher the keyword for which you have more anchor backlinks
Hi Sigma There is no exact answer to this question as it depends on the site you are trying to optimise... some boating sites for example have ranking one positions with keyword density at about 14% (phenomenally high based on general consensus) and other sites rank number 1 for density down around 4% - 5%. The beauty about SEO is that you get to see exactly what score you need to beat! One of my sites ranks second (in a medium to high keyword) with a density of 5%... My tips: research your keywords well: www.goodkeywords.com research your competitors well: with chosen keywords * this involves everything you can learn about them, their links their site age, where they rank, e v e r y t h i n g work on your content; this is paramount, search engines want to find "good" and "relevant" content hone your content with the appropriate keyword density http://developers.evrsoft.com/seotool/ then, work on relevant links (with keyword anchors)... then, go read everything else you can (both white & black) I've learnt lots about SEO from black sites... (I don't implement them -however I learn from them, most of the blacks are really technically savvy... they eat, sleep and breath this environment. They also have a different way of looking at it, it's clever and often more astute... the most important thing I learnt about SEO was on a black site, and that is SEO is an art form, not a haphazard follow the rules approach, sure learn the rules, but then make them your own... blaze your own path... but I've digressed ) anyway... then, well then just wait
Nice answer loress. I was begining to suspect that keyword density didn't really make that much difference in the grand scheme of things - I think it's probably important to an extent but wouldn't be a make or break thing unless you go to extremes. I also do believe it's more of an art than a science. If it were a science, then there would be a formula you could follow to get to the top 10 - how can everyone be in the top 10? lol Thanks for the food for thought and I will check out some of that black hat stuff - not to use of course, but I'm sure there is a lot to be learned there too. Lisa
what i think is the keyword density to gain a high ranking in the search engines is 3% to 5%...............................................................
Lisa keyword density is an SEO myth and you are better off if you forget you ever heard about it None of the major search engines use it as a metric so why should you? - Michael
It's not worth worrying about density. What is far more important is that you include it in the main areas of your page that the search engines pay attention to, title, H1/H2 tags, bold and italic text, alt tags
This is probably the correct range, if your not writing solely for search engines. You can tell a person is if the density is around 7% or above, roughly speaking.
Is there some link where I can find how to include H1 / H2 tags, I dont have them on my site, but still have good ranks. Maybe that would help me to finally jump from 2nd page to 1st page in my main targeted keyword.
in your code put <h1> before the text you want as a heading and </h1> after and so on for h2, 3, 4 etc. Be warned though that unless you have a style sheet defining the size you will end up with huge text for h1, it gets smaller and smaller the higher the h number. About keyword density - I'm more concerned about it being to high and turning enough keywords in the text into spamming.
Do you have some link to show me how H1/H2 tags look in practice ? I really dont know what it is, excet that is pretty important for SERPs
nothing fancy but here is a quick page with examples and what it looks like and the code. Lisa http://www.kaediem.com/htags
Oh, by the way, you can't put a h tag in the middle of a paragraph or anything to point out keywords, the whole paragraph will adopt the tag. Lisa