Repeating keywords

[honestman]

I am changing my site and need help telling my writer how many times keywords should be used.

At one time I read somewhere that 9% percent is a good keyword density. I never use percentage in anyting and it has been a long time since school so I am likely doing this wrong but to make it easy I to experimented on this going for 10 percent density for 500 words and came up of course with 50 times for each keyword to be repeated. That can't be right. Please help. I do not want to go to some keyword density tester online and find out I am Wong after I spent the money to get stuff written. Pleas don't think this is the is something I am hung up on because it is just one aspect of getting ranking and besides that knowing what words to use to link the content together under one theme is a bigger challenge. Besides that repeating keywords to often makes good content hard to write.

[stevesda]

http://www.ragepank.com/articles/42/seo-checklist/

i've found that it is not the quntity of keywords so much as where they are placed

so, having them in page titles, page descriptions, meta tag keywords, h1 and h2 headers, and then in main body.

try writing sentences that are good english too, then identify your main keywoords and make sure they're relevance is emphasised notonly throughout the page, but the site entirely if possible

[Suhrud]

http://www.ragepank.com/articles/42/seo-checklist/

i've found that it is not the quntity of keywords so much as where they are placed

so, having them in page titles, page descriptions, meta tag keywords, h1 and h2 headers, and then in main body.

try writing sentences that are good english too, then identify your main keywoords and make sure they're relevance is emphasised notonly throughout the page, but the site entirely if possible

Keyword density does matter but also does the location where your keyword/keyphrase is found in the body. How you use them also counts.

About Orienting the sentences- Make them more suitable for the human visitors than just assembling them for the SEngine crawlers.

best wishes!

[gobeyond]

i've found that it is not the quntity of keywords so much as where they are placed

Agreed!!! I have seen many cases that the top ranked pages simply have the most relevant keywords in their title tags.

You can stuff as many keywords as you can on a page, but you run the risk of being considered as spamming. Title, h1, h2 tags are more important places to host some keywords. If you links to internal pages, having keywords in the anchor texts may help too.

[Northie]

10% of 500 is 50!

But 10% is too high!!!

Aim between 1.5% and 2.5% and weave in related words.

Get your keyword in your title tag, H1 tag and inbound link text (on and of site).

One can get a page #1 with a keyword density of 0% by wring on-topic content and getting a link with the keyword in it

[Toe]

Read your text loudly - well-written text sounds naturally, it first must be written to visitors, not SEs. So repeat your KW as many times as needed to understand and easily read the text