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What's The Keywords Golden Ratio For Google Crawle

Posted by Anonymous on 12/20/2008 at 8:01 PM ET 250 Points
Dera Gurus,

What's the keyword golden ration for SEO with google?

What I mean is, assuming that google crawlers love a 5-7% keyword ratio per page crawled, does this include alsokeywords in the metatags, links and menu items, or only the ones in the content articles?

Is this 5-7% per each keyword, or overall for the page?

Also, I'm not very clear on whether the keywords in the keyword metatag have to be found later in the page content, or they can be as many as you like(assuming they are relevant to the website).

I ook forward to hearing from you.

Davide Pasini
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  • Posted on 12/20/2008 at 10:25 PM Accepted
    If you are describing keyword density there is a lot of folks out there who think the golden ratio is a myth. Me included.

    https://www.hobo-web.co.uk/seo-blog/index.php/keyword-density-seo-myth/

    Write naturally with a focus on searcher intent - (to buy, to learn etc) and forget about thinking there is a magic number to hit. You will never find it.

    Google doesn't seem to care about the meta-keywords tag. I don't either. Probably neither should you. Spend your time on things like ensuring keywords are in links, internal links, page title and somewhere on the page for best results.

    :)
  • Posted by excellira on 12/20/2008 at 11:39 PM Accepted
    I agree with Sandpetra that KW density is not as vital as it once was. In fact, as a result of Latent Symantic Indexing, I have observed pages which have ranked well for HIGHLY competitive terms even though those terms were not contained within those web pages.

    If you write naturally you will find that the density ends up "about right". Include the KW in the title and a few times in the body copy and, ideally, get it in the h1.

    Also, the 5-7% number you are referring to is a number that has traditionally been associated with Yahoo and MSN. The number for Google has traditionally been 3 - 5% though I'm finding these numbers to be high now.

    If you want to thorough about it, do a search for your keyword phrase in quotes (IE: "search term"), then examine the KW density of the top three ranking pages. Lately I've been observing top ranking pages with densities ~0.3 - 0.7 range. This of course, is very low but it is difficult to argue with success.

    If the top ranking sites are 0.7 and you have a 7.0 KW density you may be considered a spammer. So, the answer is that the number will depend upon your industry and keyword.

    How to calculate? To keep it simple, just count everything between the body tags. This would include links, navigation, etc.

    And I also agree with Sandpetra in regards to the meta keyword tag. It's deprecated.

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