Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Strategic positioning of keywords

Even several years ago strategic positioning of keywords on the page and in the source code was the major factor for successful search engine optimization. This situation has changed: in current SEO, remote votes of confidence for the web pages mean more now. I would say that sixty percent of optimization happens off-page and forty percent takes place on the web page.

When I talk about on-page optimization, I naturally need to start with keyword density. Sometimes, it is called keywords weight instead. Keyword density is a measure of how often a keyword is found in a specific area of the Web page like a title, heading, anchor name, visible text, etc. against all other words. Since search engine spiders see web page as HTML code instead of what visitors view through a browser, you must have an understanding of the structure of a typical HTML document.

The title of the page that a webmaster adds between HTML tags is considered to be one of the most prominent places on a web page. Title should not be longer than 8 words and should contain the most important keyword. It is also highly recommended to have keywords in the URL.

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