Comments on: Search Engine Optimization Tips for Blogs – Using Keywords

By: mariah

mariah — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:42:38 +0000

Its all sooooo confusing. Do the keywords I chose when I registered my domain or individual post labels matter most?

By: SEO UK

SEO UK — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:32:52 +0000

I think your slightly wrong with what SEO’s recommend I ve never heard anyone recommend anywhere above 10% and I certainly don’t advise anyone to go anywhere near 10% either.

I tend to advise people to stick to around 5-7% keyword density.

By: Exclusive Concepts' Internet Marketing Blog

Exclusive Concepts' Internet Marketing Blog — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:59:17 +0000

Weekly Roundup

Keyword rich content : in titles, url of page, in outbound links, in bold tags, in heading tags and in the first few sentences…. Stephen Baker writes about Google’s new patent and smarter algorithms in Advice on how to optimize your site for sear…

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:45:08 +0000

One of the main uses of Alt tags is for search engine optimization, but you want it to stay relevant with the picture. One of the main purposes of Alt tags is for section 508 compliancy, which is why you want the tag to be representative of the picture.

By: Cary

Cary — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:53:28 +0000

It didn’t seem to me that anyone was suggesting spamming the ALT tags.

By: My Internet Marketing And Promotion Blog » Blog Archive » Search Engine Optimization - The Eternal Topic…

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:42:26 +0000

[...] ation – The Eternal Topic Darren follows along today with the next in his SEO Tips series “Using Keywords”. [...]

By: Miha

Miha — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:03:10 +0000

I’m with Gerard about using keywords in image ALT tags. It sure is spamming if the keywords used are not relevant with image.

By: Search Engine Optimization Tips for Blogs: Blog Tips - ProBlogger

Search Engine Optimization Tips for Blogs: Blog Tips - ProBlogger — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:30:22 +0000

[...] naturally impact the way you blog. Continue Reading this Series at – Offsite Techniques – Keywords

[...]

By: Dag Joar

Dag Joar — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:58:10 +0000

Just an observation/question:

The keyword for this blog entry is ‘keyword’ right? It was used 17 times :)

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:42:07 +0000

Great post Darren, I think it covered most of the key issues surrounding SEO.

I guess the biggest danger is to concentrate too much on keywords and not enough on the content. I tend to write something to make as much sense as possible, and then revisit it, looking at where certain terms can be replaced unobtrusively with keywords that I wish to target.

I’ve noticed since changing my site structure and the way things are labelled to clearly identify them (and the biggest change seems to be from giving each page is own unique title) that my search engine ranking has crept upwards for nearly all the keywords I’m interested in.

Mildly tweaking and then letting the site settle, along with using google sitemaps seems to be doing the trick. You need to give the engines time to reindex and access your site, which means doing a tweak at a time and then leaving it for a few days. Theres a real temptation to begin with to really hammer the changes through – but this doesn’t allow you to see what changes are really effective.

By: Gerard McGarry

Gerard McGarry — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:13:52 +0000

Darren

On the point about using keywords in image ALT tags, these are primarily for accessibility. If you can marry a description of the image with some well-chosen keywords, that’s great.

We shouldn’t sacrafice accessibility in the name of SEO, though.

Gerard

By: Lei

Lei — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 04:54:22 +0000

Bolding the keyword(s) really does work. I just noticed with a post I wrote less than an hour ago that Google adsense already picked it up. Amazing.

By: Cary

Cary — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 01:59:41 +0000

So in response to the above comment, in a blog setting, would keyword density be based on only the actual post, or on the entire page? ie, does Google understand and filter out the basic links, navigation, etc that is on ALL of the pages, or do these get worked into the keyword percentage also?

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:27:20 +0000

I do some SEO tools programming on the side, and through a non-insignificant data set, we’ve found that optimal keyword density is closer to 3-4%. Getting over 7% starts hitting google’s spam filters, and 20% is definitely too high. Every 5th word as a keyword? That’s just ridiculous.

Also remember that Google will filter out stop words and phrases (the, and, or, a, an, it, …). So if your density is 5% on the raw page, it may be higher once you take those words out, and start hitting spam levels.

The better way to do it is by figuring out how dense your keyword phrase is in your document based on the number of different noun phrases. I didn’t write this one, but you can find a tool to do that analysis at the following URL: http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-density/

Just wanted to provide some more insight.