If I want to write an article and target say the phrase "diet secrets pills", it would be awkward to keep throwing out the phrase "diet secrets pills". Instead I'm asking does it work just as well (unless the person searches for their term in parenthesis) if I change it but still include all the words such as "diet pills secrets". Not the best example, but does that work/is that the basic idea? I don't want to miss out on sweet long tail keyword "combinations" just because they are awkward.
If the keyword is "diet secret pills", then that's how you have to use it. If you change the words around it becomes a new keyword, doesn't? You can add anything before or after the keyword, but not between the words.
you need to use the keywords to get the keyword density and for google to show you for that keyword. But sometimes this can be really hard, so make sure it makes sense. Remember although you want to be ranked by google, your selling to people. They need to understand and trust you, and if you sound weird, they are less likely to buy. So if you've already got the keywords in there around 3 times thn you can mix it up a little bit if you need to.
Don't get too caught up on just using a specific keywords, remember Google and other search engines are using LSI now, which means they also look at the words around your keywords to make sure they match. I have found that if I use the main keyword around three or four times in an article and then use other keywords the articles tend to do fairly well. Cheers Jason
Google is apparently relying less on keyword density. You can just mention it once a paragraph or so. No need to worry about including it too often.