Density of <h1>, URL etc.

[nfinland]

Hi,

A basic question about the important elements that effect ranking. We all know keyword density in text is important but how do the meta elements work?

If one should use the important keyword in <h1>, <b>, in URL etc. Does the density of these tags matter? Lets say you have a page with many other links and bolded text. Does this dilute the important keyword ranking?

[SEO practioner]

Hello Nfinland and welcome to Webmaster World!

Keywords in H1 and H2 tags are the best for me.

That, combined with bolded text around my keywords and title in pages that will contain my most important keywords and key phrases is what I find really works the best.

Keyword density in pages is important too. If you can have between 400 to 500 words on each page, with all of your keywords properly placed, you should be doing great.

When possible, I am experimenting with the domain name keyword strategy, ie:

www.keyword1-keyword2.com... etc

I think it could work well too.

I hope this has been of help

:-)

[nfinland]

What I really meant (badly explained) was that if we agree that keyword density in text should be something between 2-10 % is there any density % for links, headings etc.

If you have a keyword in a link text and the page conatins 50 other links (navigation etc.) the density % of the "keyword link" is close to zero - does this matter. Same thing with headings, bolded etc.

[martinibuster]

SEO_practioner is right, and I just wanted to add to it:

When using H1 tags etc., don't think about keyword density. h1, h2, h3, etc. were designed to show the topic of what it is that follows. They are topic headings.

According to the w3c [w3.org]:

A heading element briefly describes the topic of the section it introduces... There are six levels of headings in HTML with H1 as the most important and H6 as the least.

And this I posted back in November [webmasterworld.com], from the w3c [w3.org] as well:

<h1> is the HTML tag for the first-level heading of a document.
The title is generally duplicated in an <h1> element towards the top of the page. Unlike the title, this element can include links, emphasis and other HTML phrase elements.

Often, webmasters will use an <h2> element instead, to make the heading smaller. This is incorrect, Cascading Style Sheets should be used to create this effect

[DaveN]

<h1> used once maybe twice on a page keywords only (if possible)
<h2> used several times sales pitch with keywords (buy my cheap widget, free widgets make you blind, ten pint of widgets makes you fall over)

<H6> in the footer (C) keyword in tend to use

(C) <h6>keywords</h6> 2003 - (style sheet to blend (h6) to body text

DaveN

[DaveN]

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double post click click...... are any admins or WG about to remove this.

DaveN