Keyword density
Written by Scott on Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006As I peruse the online plethora of “how-to’s” on the web about how to rank your website higher on search engines, I keep running into the ‘keyword density’ enigma.
No one seems to know what the magic percentage or number is as far as how many times to use a certain keyword/keyphrase on a webpage.
You don’t want to repeat them too much or you might be considered spamming the search engines; but then you want to make sure you use them enough or you don’t get your point across. It’s a mystery. Google certainly won’t give any hints about it, so how do we know what’s acceptable and what’s not? Should I repeat the same keyword 5 times? 10 times?