How many key words per page?

What is a good, fair, optimum number?

[Digmen1]

Hi Guys

I am new to web design.

Have my site up and running though!

I was wondering how many keywords per page is the ideal number.

Obviously the more the better! but will say Google pick them all up or is their a limit?

Also is it a good idea to have the same keywords on each page or use different key words on each page?

Any comments would be appreciated.

I hope I have posted this thread in the correct topic.

Kind Regards

Digby

[AussieWebmaster]

concentrate on no more than three keyword phrases per page... use them say 10 times each and then use synonymns and close words... they look for associative words as well to determine the validity of the content

[cgrantski]

There is a lot of very specific, engine-by-engine information on this on the various SEO info sites. If you google on search engine optimization you will find some. you could start with the wikipedia entry which has good reference links. Danny Sullivan and Bruce Clay are two well-known individuals who publish excellent, reliable data on these kinds of questions. It sounds like you need a good intro to the basic concepts of site optimization and I think these will be a big help. There are also some really good books out there that have fresh information that are organized a bit better than scattershot web info is. I got started years ago with a book promising results with a weekend's work and it got me up and running much faster than reading the web info would have because it fed me information in the right order (something we tend to forget about books when we're infatuated with the web).

One concept: every page should be optimized for the content and vocabulary that's on it. That means different keyword sets for different site pages. The SE results have pointers to individual pages (not the site, really) and you want to have at least one page that will be well optimized for every search. Don't try to have all your pages optimized for all the terms - no single page will ever get more than middle ranks for any one search.

Meanwhile, your other questions on this subject should be on the search engine forums in webmasterworld, not this one.

[Digmen1]

Thanks Guys fro the advice.

I have just got a book on SEO.

I must admit that when I started learning HTML and CSS earlier this year I used on-line tutorials, but did not get very far.

When I got a couple of books, everything came into place.

So I hope the same will apply to SEO! (it looks like it will!)

Kind Regards

Digby

[pizzaguy]

Digmen, SEO is not like something CSS or HTML since these programming languages always work same. It just depends how do you write it and how would you like to make it work. Search Engines always change their algo and update their technology to give their visitors better results. The most important thing you can do is, creating a web site full of fresh and useful information. Following Google's Webmaster Guidelines, using couple keyword tools and most importantly creating fresh and unique content is the best SEO. Just my 2 cents.

[dailydollars]

I think it is better to concentrate on 2 - 3 keywords only. increasing lot of keywords decreases click through rate.