Jim,
I looked up some term a while back to see what the number 1 site was. I can’t remeber whose site it was, but the home page was a 15 line paragraph with the keyword used many many time. It managed to be well written, and no doubt the keyword concentration was pretty high. Is that a bad idea to write some sort of opening page using the most popular keyword as many times as possible, and then have an arrow or whatever to take the vistor to your regular page?
Thanks,
Roger
Hello Roger,
I would not use such a technique if I were you.
Look at your site and find all the keywords that you would like to target that do not have a lot of competition. Find your main keyword and focus in on the with your main page.
Then, take your others keywords and write content around each of those.
When writing content, write from the heart and think about the people you’ll be writing to, but also keep in mind to fit you keyword into the document somewhere.
You don’t have to repeat the keyword over and over, just a few times. The document as a whole and the way your internal pages point to the page in question is what works.
So doorway pages, no.
Also, I know your use of ‘doorway’ is done so with good intentions, but this term is considered bad by the search engines. It is used to describe a page created for the sole purpose of obtaining high rankings among the search engines that send visitors to another site – an unethical practice that only leads to penalization by the search engines.
Jim,
I agree, but it’s also true the higher the density of popular keywords on a page the more hits your page will receive. I’ve been adding to one much shorter page (brushing your teeth) where the topic is much narrower and it’s gaining on my heart.html page. Si I think I’ll take a look at the opening of my pages and see if I can increase density for just the beginning of the page. One good way to appeal to search engines is to use pronouns only when there’s can be no doubt who or what the pronoun referrs to.
Thanks,
Roger
Jim,
I may have fixed two problems with one change. Some of my pages are too long for quickest downloading for readers. With pages that are 25kb and longer I wondered how much would I destroy my keyword density if I split the page into two pages. Looking the pages I found that I used the keywords quite a bit more often in the first half (maybe first 40%) than the second, so my density should actually increase. So I copied and pasted the first half into a test page (uploadded to my site) and used the keyword density checker at www.seochat.com to check the density changes. Foe my original page on potassium and preventing weight gain (www.actualcures dotcom/gain.html) I had these 1% and highrer densities:
potassium 82 4.30%
sugar 51 2.67%
weight 35 1.83%
blood 33 1.73%
food 29 1.52%
magnesium 29 1.52%
fat 23 1.20%
blood sugar 24 1.14%
cells 21 1.10%
loss 19 1.00%
For the new page (now the first of two pages)I have:
potassium 37 4.62%
sugar 23 2.87%
blood 22 2.75%
blood sugar 20 2.40%
glucose 16 2.00%
weight 16 2.00%
symptoms 15 1.87%
deficiency 13 1.62%
glycogen 12 1.50%
meals 12 1.50%
juice 12 1.50%
loss 12 1.50%
cause 10 1.25%
low 10 1.25%
overdose 9 1.12%
eating 8 1.00%
level 8 1.00%
meal 8 1.00%
orange 8 1.00%
potassium deficiency 8 0.96%
weight loss 8 0.96%
I went from 3 keywords 2% and higher density to 6.
I went from 10 keywords 1% and higher to 19.
So I turned the gain page into two pages, gain.html and gain2.html with a little doo dad link at the bottom of the first "Go to page 2".
It also saves on bandwidth becuase if a visitor is not going to read the whole page why load it all?
Of course this probably would be useful only if the first page has more than the same amount of text found on 8-1/2 by 11.
Thanks,
Roger
Good information Roger, thanks.
I’m going to be splitting up the pages on one of my WP Blogs – even with compression, they take way too long to load. I am concerned with keyword density, but I think it will all wash out. Because it is a wordpress blog, chopping the page in half is not as easy as you might think (moving comments can be troublesome
Thanks,
Jim.