hey, while working on my website I am often left wondering whether I should try to write more at the expense of key word density, or keep it concise and have a very high keyword density. My website is an online store, so i have to make the content sound good and if i am going to write a 150-200 word description then I have to digress to some extent so I can keep it interesting and relevant. In doing this I lose some keyword density. i want to know if any dper's find this challenging as well, and what you think is best, a 50 word description with a higher density, or a 200 word one with a lower density. thanks!!
Are you talking the content and keyword in the pages or in the meta tags. I think your description shall be concise and focus the main point, meaninglessly write a long descrtiption will give visitors bad inpression. So I don't think there is word limit for your description, just make sure it's neither more nor less. As for the keyword, senselessly repeating is not good. But you have to pay attention to the density, because keyword is the main factor to show up in a search.
I always wonder because i have a few sites that are number 1 position on msn.com.au and are full of key words. However msn.com and google and yahoo are stricter on too many key words i think
150 to 200 words is not a lot of content. And will not be diluting keyword density. 50 word descriptions may even be too short in some cases. And could inflate your densities to spammer levels. Just take more time in writing good quality descriptions. If you find going to 200 means running out of ideas on what to write then go with 100. Ideal densities are 3 to 5 percent. So thats only a few occurrences in a 100 word text. Plus take into account occurrences in links, header tags, title tags etc. Don't focus too much on repeating your main keyphrase 3, 5 or 10 times. Be sure to use some variations of your terms. Plurals and singular, ...ing, ...ism, etc. Differnt word orders where appropriate. And other related but different phrases that may be commonly used for that subject or item.
really good advice, thanks a lot. So in general it is better not to have to high of a keyword density, like if you are up to 10-15% this will be viewed as bad by google??
Yahoo likes 10% Google likes 3% 5% to 7% is a good compromise But when you get down to these low levels of content (50, 100, 150 words) it may become a matter of how you calculate density. Do you include your title tags and description tags? Or not? Just the main body text or also the text and links in your navigation bars and footers? I work mostly with content rich pages (500 to 1500 words). So I'm not too sure about how densities effect things at these lower content levels. Someone with experience with shopping cart sites, and other types of product catalog sites that tend to be slim on content, should chime in here with some opinions on this.
my site is http://vortexfilms.net so people can get an idea, there is almost no content yet, as I am in the process of writing it, but yeah, i was wondering that aswell, if i just include the content, then there is a fairly normal keyword density (or will be at least) but with all the title tags etc.. it will boost it a lot, are these tags included?? also, i have a new question i will ask here, this is probably a silly question. I am going to host MP3's on this site, but also on another site, so to save on diskspace i would like to host them both on my 2nd site. Is this less SEO friendly as the MP3 links really count as a backlink?? or do internal backlinks mean nothing?? or do backlinks to files mean nothing?? axe thanks for your help, how do you add rep, i need to give you some
to add rep, click the scales icon on the top left of a post that you want to add the rep to. And ty in advance I'm not sure about linking to your mp3's. Not something i'm familiar with.
It is fine with normal keyword density. In fact, always create your content with the topic in mind then comes the title, META, headers, bold tags optimization. It is advised not to create content based on the keyword density % as this will make the article unnatural at times.. If you only want to optimize the pages in your MP3 site, then it does not matter where you host the files and their link structure.
thanks to both of you! very helpful tips indeed. I have one more question now, if you don't mind. With regards to meta tags, how many do you think a good number is? should you put 10 that relate very strongly to your site, or is there no problem with putting 30 just in case a few apply. also if a frequent search term is "old time radio". should i put "old time radio" as a tag, or is putting old, time, radio the same thing?? thanks in advance! and sorry to leech all this info
your keyword meta tags have very little importance, if any at all. I would keep it to 10 or less. Don't bother throwing in a keyword that does not occur even once in the content of the page. Adding other terms can get spammy, real quick. Don't waste your time.
They mean completly nothing. Don't worry, they aren't backlinks at all. We have done and we are doing exactly the same you are going to do, and there is no problem with it. Good luck