One keyword per page: once more with feeling
By Mike Moran. Filed in Organic Search |Tags: Keyword, Web search engine
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Stop me before I blog again! I really thought I had laid this subject to rest with last week’s post, but more folks have been explaining just how wrong-headed my advice is, with one labeling it “utter nonsense” (which is, I think, the worst kind of nonsense around). If your eyes have still not glazed over on this topic, go ahead and read my last (I promise) Search Engine Guide post on the subject: “One keyword per page: once more with feeling.”
Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 at 6:23 am |
Now I am going to read your first post on the subject, but as a blogger for some reason I have an unstopable urge to add my two cents. Anyway how I seo my site with a decent amount of success is take the top 3-5 phrases and words in my niche then place them on my home page then when I get into the sub pages I usually cut it down to two or three. Of course when optimizing keywords I stick with the same subject. Such as my website’s home is optimized for make money, make money free, make money online, and earn money. I make sure as I traverse the web leaving my link here or there to switch up the text within the hyper link. Anyway before I say anymore I should probably read your first post.
Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 at 11:37 am |
There was nothing wrong with your post it made sense to me.
I have always done things this way.
So long as your internal linking structure is done right, targeting one keyword per internal page
Works real well.
Google look at your total site keywords site wide, this is how it first determines what your site is about.
The only meta tag google will not index is the keyword meta tag.
It takes all it’s information from title tags and description tags, internal links and incoming external links.
It then builds a picture of your total site.
Once it as this information it delivers the best site to the searcher .
So if your main site is about “women’s shoes” and you have internal linking to a page that is optimised for “women’s shoes in Sheboygan” google will give you a double indent listing.
1 your site is clearly about “women’s shoes”
2 you are locally targeting “women’s shoes in Sheboygan”
The use of Mata tags on page and in a text file on the route of your site will help to grab that top spot. Get your internal linking right has this is just as important to your site a long with your incoming links.