Content, keywords, SEO

[pepperfield]

I submitted a few articles to AritclePR sites, such as articlnetworks and ezine. I plan on changing the articles to make them original and more appealing to our customers and search engines after the original content has been downloaded and posted on other sites.

If my 700 word article is on widgets, how often should I use the keywords/phrases:
- buy widgets
- widget products
- widgets
- blue widgets, etc.?

The article will be geared towards the user but would also like the search engines to crawl and consider my content favorable over other widget articles.

I will be using short paragraphs and bullet points (benefits, uses, etc). Any other tips?

thanks in advance.

[amygrech]

Use anchor text that points to multiple pages on your site.

[Fortune Hunter]

Amy:

Your comment sounds like there is a piece of info in there that would be really helpful to me, can you please explain more. I am not sure what you are referring to. Thanks.

Fortune Hunter

[apple2849]

Hi,

Best way according to me will be to write what u have in the way you want to express. Then see to it that your keyword is evenly distributed all over the content. Thanks

[pepperfield]

In a 700 page, 4 parargraph article, how many times should I use the keyword/phrase before Google think it's SPAM?

In one paragraph, is it ok to use it 3 times? Or would it be optimal to use it more often?

[justawriter]

Pepperfield,

I've been writing for the Web for a lot of years now. So let me suggest to you that if you're writing a 700 word article that you want humans to read on their monintors you need to use a lot more paragraphs than just four.

[pepperfield]

Great answer justawriter. Will be doing that.

In each paragraph, I will be using the keywords/keyphrases no more than twice. I am writing this for people to read but would also like to maximize any SEO abilities that Google may appreciate.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

cheers, p

[Article]

The more I read through this forum I realize justawriter is quite astute and on the button.

However let me put a little of my advice to ya...

Each search engine has a different level they consider spam or just heavy. I would suggest a nice medium of about 5% keyword density. That way you are pretty much covered.

Again, it will depend if you are expecting humans to read the work or just using content for search engine fodder.

Big difference.

- Article

[BigDave]

Write naturally and forget about keyword density, and leave it up to the search engines to sort it out.

You are probably better off at this point using synonyms and related words, than if you repeat your keyword a lot.

[VegasRook]

I have been creating web content for over a decade now and I agree with the statement on paragraphs. You need to understand the the typical Internet reader is not a book reader. Think newspapers and headlines.

Write your article naturally and weave in your terms naturally. If this article is for other websites (free submissions), don't worry about that. Should you decide to rewrite the article for your own site, do a total rewrite to avoid current and future duplicate content issues.

As to the amount, don't get so narrow-sighted that you forget about what should be your true goal--quality and your reader. Don't treat visitors like one-off disposable units. If you give them quality and rope them in, you will be able to accomplish more with less marketing than being 100% SEO-writer and marketing like a madman.

[Fortune Hunter]

Those of you who have discussed key word density, do you have a recommended program that can go through the text on a page and count the words and show the key word density?

I found one program from Planet Oceans, but I don't think it is very good. So any other suggestions would be appreciated.

Fortune Hunter

[petra]

My suggestion is split the article into 2, 350 but no more than 400 words each and repeat kws not more than 6 times in body of article and not more than 12 in source code (including body).

[deejay]

Fortune Hunter - Brett (Tabke) has a keyword density analyser up at search engine world that does a good job.

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