How to achieve the optimal keyword density in your content

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How to achieve the optimal keyword density in your content

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Key quotes:

  • "When you want to optimize your blog posts for SEO, the first thing to do is to search for relevant keywords and use them in your blog post."
  • "You may also like: How to write stunning blog posts that'll drive massive traffic to your website To help you get the best keywords that are relevant to your topic, perform the following task: This is important because your audience vary and so are their search terms."
  • "The screenshot above shows the result I got after entered the keyword "blogging." The above mentioned tools are easy and simple to use."
  • "Yoast offers you multiple WordPress plugins that will enable you optimize your blog content and website for SEO and Skyrocket social sharing."
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  • "It involves editing your blog post and other web content including your website for SEO."
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Key quotes:

  • "As an SEO copywriter, your target is not only to write content that is optimized for search engines, but to also make it interesting to the reader (persuasive)."
  • "Let’s learn about two aspects in content optimization: Keyword and Linking Keyword frequency is the number of target keywords that appear on web pages."
  • "For example, if your keyword target is “best hotel Jakarta,” how many times will this keyword phrase appear in articles containing 300, 500 or 1000+ words? Instead, keyword density is related to the ratio of “best hotel Jakarta,” with other words on the same page."
  • "According to Brian Dean, keyword density / frequency is one of 200 ranking factors, meaning you have to keep it in mind as long as you don’t overdo it."
  • "One of the 10 things that Google believes is “there is always more information out there.” Linking to other sites and pages indicates that you respect the work of others."
  • "Google will respect you for being in line with their mission: organizing world information and providing universal access."
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Key quotes:

  • "It’s been a long, long time since we’ve looked at the keyword density of a page."
  • "But amazingly, there are many people out there who still think that putting a keyword in a page a certain number of times will lead to search engine ranking gold."
  • "Every now and then, I hear people ask about it, and you still see a lot of SEO tools that will look at the keyword density of a page."
  • "Instead, algorithms lean more toward the overall topic of a page, looking not just for “keywords” but anything and everything that relates to the page’s topic."
  • "Keywords still matter, both from a topical perspective as well as ensuring you write content that meets the needs of the searchers."
  • "But you won’t get very far looking to add each keyword X number of times for every word of content."
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Key quotes:

  • "Make sure each page of your site (and each blog post) has a short and descriptive title — for example, the page where you can learn more about the Grammar Chic content marketing services is www.grammarchic.net/content-marketing-services."
  • "Content management systems like WordPress usually make it quite easy to change your URL to whatever you want it to be."
  • "Make sure the headline itself is compelling, and that you break up the content with descriptive section sub-headings."
  • "Instead, just naturally and judiciously insert keywords in titles, section headings, and meta descriptions, then perhaps once or twice in the content itself."
  • "If there are other pages of your site — or blog posts, for that matter — that augment the page in question, include strategic links to them."
  • "We’d just caution you to make sure the links you include really are relevant and helpful."
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Key quotes:

  • "Sometimes it’s easier to improve the effectiveness of your content by optimizing for SEO."
  • "This is also one of the most effective ways to get your content to rank in search results pages and reach a wider audience."
  • "Right from the start, optimizing your content for SEO means you are writing about topics people are searching for."
  • "A niche topic may have good results for a small group of people, but if you’re looking to scale your blog, it needs to reach a larger audience."
  • "Beware that this doesn’t mean pushing as many keywords as you can in your content pieces."
  • "At the same time optimizing content for SEO also means remembering that you’re writing for people."
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