How to Place Your Keywords On Your Web Pages!

cacamp · #1 07-06-2008, 08:04 PM

Would you like to know what is the most effective formation for SEO purposes, in placing your keywords within your web pages?

When placing your keywords, do so in the formation of an hour glass figure which makes crawling by the search engines easier so that they can figure out what your page is about. Try to avoid excessive use of keywords also to avoid being penalized by the search engines for spamming, both on your page and in your meta-tags.

Dion · #2 18-06-2008, 06:05 PM

Wow I have never read or heard that. Nice tip.

Does anyone know what the approximate magic figure (% wise) for keyword density?

watto · #3 26-06-2008, 03:20 PM

Just have a look at the number 1 site in your niche and do the same as them. In saying this, I wouldn't wory too much about keyword density. In a recent interview, Matt Cutts (google) said that on page keyword desity has little value.

Instead, concetrate on developing your link pop.

Regards

watto
www.Business-Trader.com.au

HarveyJ · #4 27-06-2008, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by cacamp

Would you like to know what is the most effective formation for SEO purposes, in placing your keywords within your web pages?

When placing your keywords, do so in the formation of an hour glass figure which makes crawling by the search engines easier so that they can figure out what your page is about. Try to avoid excessive use of keywords also to avoid being penalized by the search engines for spamming, both on your page and in your meta-tags.

Sorry, but where the hell did you read that?
Seriously, I want to know, because it sounds so ridiculous to me... like pressing the button at the lights 33 times makes it go green...

Text is text, and layout does nothing. It's only the tags that something is formatted with that alters that.

As far as keyword density goes, it's an idea to keep it to less than 10% I've found.
The threshold seems to be around there.

cacamp · #5 27-06-2008, 01:45 PM

Do you need proof? It's the reason why my site is in the top 1% for one of the most competitive keywords words online.

jam · #6 27-06-2008, 05:01 PM

you should have your keywords in your header and footer, but an hour glass... haven't heard that.. what's the website your using it on and its search term?

Robyn · #7 29-06-2008, 05:46 PM

I have read similar expert opinion recently; - 2 to 3 times in first paragraph, a couple in the middle and 2 to 3 in the last.

"They say" that btw 3-5% density is also best.

I find it unbelievable it matters that much.

Then again that's probably why it's not exactly my best skill.....

Robyn

mpaton · #8 29-06-2008, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by cacamp

Do you need proof? It's the reason why my site is in the top 1% for one of the most competitive keywords words online.

WTF? How is that good?

i.e: Fitness has 495,000,000 results in google, top 1% puts you in the top 5 million. Awesome ranking dude.

cacamp · #9 29-06-2008, 08:08 PM

The term, Top 1%, refers to having your site in the first ten pages for a particular keyword.

Matt O · #10 09-10-2008, 08:19 AM

Keyword density is a grey area. I think that above 2% is fine, once you get up around 8% you're starting to get content that is difficult to read. You should only use one keyword per page, two maximum. Keywords in the page titles are helpful.

I think the site map is important as well, it's good to have logically themed 'silos' of information, i.e. different categories that are related to the overall topic of your site that are easy to navigate.

Obviously there's a lot of other little things to consider as well: backlinks, robot.txt and XML sitemap files, meta-tags etc.

Matt.

John LA · #11 13-05-2009, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Dion

Wow I have never read or heard that. Nice tip.

Does anyone know what the approximate magic figure (% wise) for keyword density?

I have known that keeping this figure under 20% can keep you under Google's radar. You will be penalized with keyword stuffing and considered to be spamming the system if you surpass this.

Candise · #12 14-08-2009, 01:06 PM

After your site is built, it is important to set up your Web pages for getting high rankings in the search engines. One of the major methods to obtain high rankings is for your Web pages to contain effective keywords. This page describes the following major topics:

Add appropriate keywords to each page
Place keywords in the appropriate spots on your Web pages
Additional tips

Make Each Web Page Emphasize Specific Keywords

Each of your Web pages should emphasize specific keyword combinations applied mainly for that particular page. Search engines rank pages higher that have high density for particular keywords. For example, if you have an article about ICSI, then that page should have mostly ICSI keywords on it. Here is how a search engine might "think" about this:

"This user just entered a query 'ICSI'. To satisfy this users request, I want to display pages that are definitely about ICSI and not about other medical procedures. So, I will rank highest those pages that have the highest ratio of ICSI keywords."

Here are some examples of how you might fill some of your Web pages with laser-targeted keywords:

Services page - include the word "infertility" as well as whatever services you offer, such as "IVF," "ICSII," or "GIFT". It is ideal if you can have one page devoted to each service.
Location page - include your office location(s) city and state and perhaps a list of other nearby cities that you serve.
Medical Staff page - include your doctors' names
Home Page - include a summary of your most important site keywords, such as your major services, location, doctors, and any other important features of your organization. Make sure this page contains your most important keywords.

leisadent · #13 07-10-2009, 12:59 PM

I think by hourglass they meant more keywords at top, less in the middle, more at the end - not an acual hourglass shape for the text

benescuanan86 · #14 29-10-2009, 12:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cacamp

Would you like to know what is the most effective formation for SEO purposes, in placing your keywords within your web pages?

When placing your keywords, do so in the formation of an hour glass figure which makes crawling by the search engines easier so that they can figure out what your page is about. Try to avoid excessive use of keywords also to avoid being penalized by the search engines for spamming, both on your page and in your meta-tags.

Sorry, but where the hell did you read that?
Seriously, I want to know, because it sounds so ridiculous to me... like pressing the button at the lights 33 times makes it go green...

Text is text, and layout does nothing. It's only the tags that something is formatted with that alters that.

As far as keyword density goes, it's an idea to keep it to less than 10% I've found.
The threshold seems to be around there.

For me the most important in SEO is the keyword, we should not overdo it to avoid spam and the most important thing of all is the KEYWORD SHOULD BE RELATED TO THE CONTENT.