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Title - yes, I include it for all.
Meta description - I run density both ways, but for Google I pay more attention to the result without meta desc.
found rather baffled if title & meta descp is really considered as text for density analysis. Body text is a most certain thing
I look at all of the different page elements separately.
Title you just sort of look at and know. You don't need a tool.
Ditto with description, which isn't that important. I usually try to get my target phrases and peripheral terms in once in the first 150 characters, and if I go to 250 characters I'll try to get a repeat on the most important word... but the description isn't going to make or break you.
I look at body text as a separate area... and I look at different parts of the body text differently (eg, the 1st, say, 250 characters are the most important). With Latent Semantic Indexing and stemming and synonyms now possibly all playing a part in Google, more than ever you've really got to have a "feeling" about what's going on. You just can't do it by numbers. One basic rule I have is that if it reads like it's stuffed, it probably is.
Edited typo. I said "the title isn't going to make or break you" where I'd meant "description." The title is quite important.
[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 4:59 am (utc) on Mar. 15, 2004]
