Keywords Are Very Important

January 17th, 2008 · No Comments

by Jimmy Torres

The keyword density and its position are crucial things to keep in mind when optimizing your articles for Google. Search engine spiders crawl your article in a style that makes it very important to place your keywords where they’ll be recognized and detected as a keyword, so that the article you publish will display in the search results when someone types in that keyword.

So what is a keyword?

A keyword is a specific word that you are going to place several times in your article. When a spider detects that you have a certain word posted in your article several times, it will determine that your article is a good resource to browsers that are searching that keyword.

Don’t over optimize your article

Overloading your article with your keyword is known as ‘keyword stuffing’. Keep in mind that if you do this to try and manipulate the search engines to get a high ranking for your keyword, then you won’t get far. The spiders have the ability to read what is and what isn’t keyword stuffing. If you practice this method, you will risk your articles being removed from the search engines forever.

What’s Keyword Density?

Keyword density means the number of times that your keyword is placed within your article. The majority of people use a percentage to tell how many times they will insert their keyword in their article. For instance, if the article you wrote was 600 words and you wanted to achieve a 3% keyword density, then you’ll need to put the keyword in your article 18 times. You’ll find dozens of resources suggesting a percentage over another and the reasons behind the logic, but in the end you will have to decide which density works best for you.

The Percentage of Density

No matter what density percentage you pick, remember that it’s vital to place your keywords in the beginning as much as the end of your article so that you can create an hour glass effect. Just keep in mind that having the right keyword density in your article will most likely result in that article making you money because it will be placed high in the search engine results and attract more interested readers.

As long as you follow the guidelines in this article for your article marketing, you should have no problem making money and gaining top search engine positions. Also consider submitting your article to several article directories so that you can dominate the search engine rankings and gain lots of readers’ attention.

About the Author:

Jimmy Torres is the team leader of a new program called MyInternetBusiness. To find out how to dominate keyword research with article marketing, go to MyInternetBusiness.

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