Hello! I am fairly new to the finer points of SEO, but I do know what keywords are and what they should be. I spent hours upon hours researching the best keywords to use for my site, using a few different keyword tools. My problem is that when Google crawls my site, the keywords that it says it finds for my site are not even the keywords that I wrote for my pages, or for the products that I sell. They are mostly about the coding of my pages (i.e. the color code name for the text on my page, features that are on my pages but definitely not in the keywords I wrote like cart for my shopping cart, search, and the name of the shopping cart program that I use). Below is a listing of the top 15 keywords that Google found for my site: cart search zen imaginationtoystation toys bath commerce data dollar english ffffff languages lingerie modules The name of my business is Imagination Toy Station, but I did not include it in any of my keywords that I wrote, and definitely would not have been written as all one word! Only 3 of these 15 are even close to the keywords that I wrote. Why is Google ignoring the keywords that I wrote, and taking words out of the coding of my pages and making them my keywords???? The full list of keywords Google said it found in my site had 97 words in it, and only 16 of those are anywhere close to the ones I wrote! Google even had the word keywords in my list of keywords!!!! Any help with this would be so greatly appreciated, because I am pulling my hair out over this! Thank you very much!
It is not only the Google Keyword tool that you should choose. You can take a look at here . Let me know if it helped you because that link helped me.
That suggests that you just don't have enough content on the page, and the keyword density is too low. Yes, Google will see what's in your code, and keywords from components added like zencart. This is what people often forget - it is not a person reading your page and understanding it, it's a bot, you have to make what you put on the page in a logical manner for a bot to pick up on what you want. EDIT - picking up on the post following mine, I initially assumed that when you,said you 'wrote' the keywords, you meant in your content.If you meant, in the keyword metatag, then no, Google isn't reading it. At all. They've said so clearly and unambiguously. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1891152#post14706407
That is because you don't have good contents in your web site. You should have a good content which totally focus on your business, you don't need to focus on the keywords, because google doesn't care about the keywords these days. Just make your contents unique and informative and write a good page title and meta description they are vital in onpage SEO.