Maximum number of Keywords per page

[rajun]

What would be the maximum number of keyword for a webpage that help it to get rank high?

I used 35 keyword. Is it optimal?

Thanks.

[ogletree]

On page factors play a very small roll in rank. Do you mean 35 differnt kw's or the same word 35 times. I try to keep my pages down to one keyword per page that I optimize for. I might repeart that word several times. I have seen some peopole that that just repeat the same kw over and over again on the smae page. That is the whole kw density debate. Since it plays such a small roll in your rank just repeat the term as much as it is needed in the text. If it reads funny take some off. As long as you have the keyword in title and repeated a few times on the page your ok.

[rajun]

I actually means Keywords in META TAG. One of my suggest it shout be between 10 to 20.

But in my page I use more than 35 keywords in meta tag.

[Charlotte]

"Since it plays such a small roll in your rank "

Does it really? Is that just for Google? I've been trying to get my keyword density up over the past week or so having seen a drop in interest after I changed some text. I thought you had to aim for 5-10% keyword density...

[masterjack]

Use just one KW per page or a play on that KW maybe twice per 50-word paragraph. Regards the meta KW, try not to use the same word more than 4 or 5 times and never have it back to back as certain SEs may cancel both words.

[jchampliaud]

Regards the meta KW, try not to use the same word more than 4 or 5 times and never have it back to back as certain SEs may cancel both words.

I thought meta tags don't matter.

[ogletree]

Don't worry about meta kw and meta description. If you are finished getting links and adding content then you can spend some time working on that. There is always something else you could spend your time on that has more benefit. Don't waste your time.

[AcsCh]

We have made the experience that meta keywords are rather negatively used. As if the SE would know then the suspect keywords, and you run into a filter, if it is "overoptimized". We do usually keep the keywords empty and have quite good experiences with.

Description is very often used on SE results pages (google) so make it read good! #2 with a good description is better than #1 with just a senseless keywordlist as snipet. Put the keywords once, max twice into the Description.

Density as an absolut figure is probably the wrong aproach. It's rather the density of the usual use of this word in any text, to the density on your page, so best density is for every widget different. Check the density of your competition to get an idea.