how many times can you repeat your keyword on a page?

[jlyons1234]

how many times can you repeat your keyword on a page?
isnt the whole game the person who repeats his keywords the most will be listed higher? but i dont know how many times i can repeat my keywords without it being spam?

thnaks
jay

[Liane]

If there were an answer to that question, life would be pretty boring as every page on the internet would look pretty much the same. My best advice is to just write good copy for your product and see how the page fares. Then write a whole lot more content "for the benefit of your readers"

isnt the whole game the person who repeats his keywords the most will be listed higher?

Absolutely not! Stop writing for the search engines. It will drive you crazy and likely get you into trouble. Try writing for your readers and see what happens. Hang around here and do a lot more reading. There are many, many factors taken into consideration in search results.

Read Brett's thread from 2 years ago;

"Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone" [webmasterworld.com]. Then read it again and again. Then set about doing it! :)

Good luck!

[MikeBeverley]

Keyword 'repetition' is not the weighting factor these days. (At least not on any search engine worth its traffic.) Many sites rank in the top ten without even mentioning its keyword more than once or even at all.

[SEOQuestions]

Florida changed things quite a lot (or so we think). When your keyword is a location it is completely logical that it will be used again and again (and trust me it is hard to come up with other ways to reference the place you have created a site for) -- in November it was "see ya" for most travel sites who over optimized (aka overused their keywords). I know I changed my usage in response and came back a few months ago. So (IMHO) avoid keyword slamming (even if there seems to be no other way to describe what you are talking about).