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Well, I have a new site that is indexed in this, November, update (first crawled in the beginning of October).
I`ve got PR6 and have 176 backward links.
The problem is my low position for main keyphrase. I`m on 89th place, and have a bunch of PR5/4 sites/pages in front of me.
And when I search with "allinanchor: my main keyphrase", I`m 15th.
Also, I have good content, keyphrase in title, keyphrases in alts,...
I`m so desperate, don`t know what to do, what to change,...
Anyone experienced something similar?
Please, help.
I'm working on 8 - 12% for single keywords (metas excluded).. leaning heavily towards the 8% end of the scale.
That said, haven't had a chance to look at this month's SERPs in any detail, although on the face of it there's very little change on my pages.
Use your keywords, don't abuse them. Even if you get results from the SE, you will turn off the surfers.
11% on my top single key word
13% on the 2 keyword phrase
This is with meta tags excluded.
I'm going to find a way to re-word the list of page links so I don't have to repeat so much.
I think I'll write something like
Quick Reference to Widgeting Articles
red yellow green
blue orange purple
Anne
1. For 1 keyword?
2. For a 2 keyword phrase?
3. For a 3 keyword phrase?
The one at SEW is saying that I have KWD of 17.02% for my main KW, while another online tool is saying it's 4.38%. That's a big difference!
My own count shows I have 617 words in the text and headings, of which 24 are my keyword. That's 3.89%. Even allowing for the fact that approximately a third of the words will not be counted because they are three letters or less, that's still giving me a KWD of about 6%.
Just checked again with the SEW tool, this time exclusing meta tags, and got 15.98%
Anyone know exactly how the SEW tool is counting words? And does Google count words in meta tags or alt tags?
The competitor who I said (based on Search Engine World's tool) had a KWD of 18% actually has 185 words on the index page and 5 instances of the keyword on the page. That's 2.7%.
I established this by saving the webpage as a Word document and using Word's word count feature to establish total words on the page. I then did a search and replace to find how many keywords were present. I think I trust Word's word count more than I do SEW's.
Anyone have any thoughts about this?
After playing around with my keywords a bit I am thinking that having the keywords in the title makes more difference than density in the text.
Anne
So what's your KWD using the method I suggested, or simply by doing a manual count?
Bodhipaksa
Using the analyzer with the meta words turned off I get 16% on my top two words. The way they calculate the key word phrases it comes out really high,28% but they are only looking at 5 phrases.
Anne
That's using Brett's keyword density analyser over at SEW
For Google, I set it so that it includes the Page title, but excludes meta keywords and meta descriptions.
Brett, can you elucidate?
Bodhipaksa
It must be a penalty of some kind, site structure issues, or something. The site I'm referring to is clearly superior to many of the sites above it so it's strange to be so low. Oh well. I remain stumped, as I'm sure Google likes me to be.
Yep, I checked it when I started using it and actually found it to be more transparent (and accurate) than the one I had used previously.
Have just rechecked and the counts are spot on.
Sounds like it might be worth a new thread. :)
You could a modified version of Brett's quickrank list for keyword placement:
title:
meta descrip:
meta keywords:
large h1-h2 headings:
domain name:
url or filename:
general text:
alt tag:
Note how many occurrences of your keyword in each place and we can have a look at it in some more detail.
It would be interesting to see what it's picking up.
