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hst · 03-17-2008, 02:57 AM

How much is too much? How little is too little? What are the quantity rules for keywords?

bogs · 03-17-2008, 07:29 PM

IMO there is no limit of use of kws, as long as you don't spam or stuff kws..
you can't really avoid to repeat some kws, especially if its necessary... the best to do is don't over use(redundant use) kws in a "particular page"

mrichards1984 · 03-22-2008, 07:55 AM

I usually go for 5%..

But always remeber to add you KW in the first and last sentence!

marketraise2007 · 03-24-2008, 04:35 AM

Proper keyword selection will always provide good search results for your website.Want to increase traffic, build credibility, improve your search engine rankings and get people talking about your business--at no cost? Then open up your word processor, and start writing. By determining your best search keywords, writing an article that includes those keywords and getting it distributed online, you'll be putting yourself on the radar of people looking for what you provide.

The density of keyword affects the ranking of your page. The higher the keyword density the higher is your rank so one should always include a 30-40 word paragraph containing key-word rich content, thus increasing the keyword density.

The keywords you have chosen should appear in title, Meta and H tags with some occurrence in the body also. So you should not define Google without putting the word Google in the body of the definition. This means H and P tags should go hand shaking with each other.

crispyseo · 03-25-2008, 05:04 AM

One thing that you should be aware of is that some search engines (namely Google) do have some penalities if you go crazy with keywords.

You should be careful about doing too much keyword stuffing. In particular, avoid the obvious stuff that Google can detect easily with it's algorithms (for example: stuffing keyword meta tags).

On the other hand, keyword stuffing is highly effective for Yahoo. So it is a balance.

Let me know if you want further thoughts. I'm a professional SEO consultant.

Ben

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Thomas Schulz · 03-30-2008, 11:26 AM

Be sure to match title, headers and some body content to the primary key phrases you are targeting... But yes, 5% is probably a quite good estimate, but I have seen pages have a MUCH higher density and rank high on Google

Lovely · 03-31-2008, 01:01 PM

It is much more complicated than just amount of keywords, some languages allow a certain amount of keywords but they must not exceed so many characters. Other markets allow different amount of keyword combinations according to their total added length (a keyword combination may be made up of 2 to 4 words.

I think 10 for Meta Keywords is okay, but dont repeat the words, separate with comma only. In other words most of the seo guru says that there is no actual number of keywords allowed.

**ho$ter** · 04-01-2008, 11:10 AM

I've read that the range is between 2 to 12 %. Most recommendations are for 5 or 6% keyword density.

JLHC · 04-01-2008, 11:58 AM

Just remember that more doesn't mean its good.
It's always good to have limits for everything.

What I've read about somewhere (which I forgot where) is that about 10 meta keywords is ideal for SEO, not to mention header, site descriptions, etc.

MrCat · 04-01-2008, 08:24 PM

Everything that is in excess isn't good.

It depends if the OP is referring to metas, content, URL, etc....