Comments on: Does Keyword Density Matter?

By: ladynada

ladynada — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:06:17 +0000

part 4 in the series
SEO tips for Meta Description / Keyword Density, Blogskinny, and self hosted WordPress
http://heartdaughter.com/blogs/elijah/index.php/2007/07/23/328/

My method is giving me high ranking in SERP

nada

By: ladynada

ladynada — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:36:02 +0000

I have a totally different definition of keyword density and wrote three articles about it.

http://heartdaughter.com/blogs/elijah/index.php/2007/06/27/192/
http://heartdaughter.com/blogs/elijah/index.php/2007/07/02/224/
http://heartdaughter.com/blogs/elijah/index.php/2007/07/12/278/

My method is giving me highranks in SERP

nada

By: Eric Giguere

Eric Giguere — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:28:52 +0000

Those are good articles, Michel, especially the one about LSI. Again, I think we all agree on the general principle here: write well for human readers and things will mostly work out.

By: Michel Duz

Michel Duz — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:21:02 +0000

Does Keyword Density Matter? Your post came up on my horizon and I have a couple of reads for you; http://www.seo-blog.com/keyword-density.php and http://www.seo-blog.com/latent-semantic-index-lsi-myth.php

I hope they help.

- Michael

By: Eric Giguere

Eric Giguere — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:28:49 +0000

Nice post, Michael, and I think it definitely helps explain the state of the art these days.

Personally, the only time I ever worry about keyword density when I write something is when I’m trying to match an AdWords ad to a landing page, in which case I want the landing page to reference the keyphrase I’m using several times to get me lower advertising costs. Or if I’m trying to fix the occasional mistargeted ad. But generally I don’t worry about it and things work out anyhow.

By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:05:04 +0000

In a word, NO. See my post Five Outdated SEO Myths. Wil Reynolds' speech at Affiliate Summit explains it.

By: Abi

Abi — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:51:29 +0000

thanks a lot.. exactly what i wanted to expect..
if you read a few guides of ewen chia, you can notice he makes some pretty interesting point on article marketing..

primary keyword density: 3-8% [8% is way too much thou]

two additional kws density: 1.5-3%

kinda like using LSI
thanks eric, you made my day with the density tool.. now i see why my competitors rank better than me

and would like to tell you, i am a big fan of your blog and really enjoyed the adsense arbitrage case study..

i hope you make another case study on another money making model..

By: Eric Giguere

Eric Giguere — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:45:04 +0000

It’s hard to answer these questions, to be honest, because pages don’t live in a vacuum. The answer depends on what the other pages you’re competing against are like and what kind of search engine optimization they’ve done. Everything else being equal, a higher keyword density is better, yes. But things are rarely (never!) equal. A low-density page can easily outrank a high-density page if there are more and/or better links to it, for example. Write good content, then edit it with basic SEO principles in mind. That’s the best way to get going. Once you have a page indexed, you can compare it to its competition and start tweaking things.

By: Abi

Abi — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:34:29 +0000

Wow Eric, you made me famous

and this post solves most of my doubts, thanks.

But would a quality article rank better in search engines with a better keyword density? this is in concern to bum marketing.