SEO Keywords And Keyword Density

Whether you have started your website or blog to make money or because you simply want to share your view and opinions with the world. Either way you want the world to see it, everyone wants people to view there site.

Promoting Your Site
You can use social mediums such as stumbleupon or digg to promote your website, this can become extremely time consuming and tedious. The easiest and most effective way to get pageviews is through search engines. There are so many sites out there that if you want to rank high enough in any given search to have people see your website, you need to optimize it for search engines, this is called SEO. One of the most important factors in SEO is proper use of keywords.

Optimizing With Keywords
Keywords are the most common words used to describe what your site is about. If you are still unsure about keywords, just imagine you were someone looking for a site just like yours, what word or words would you use to search for it. The words used most commonly used to search for certain things are keywords. If you have a blog about dog breeding you may use keywords like dog, canine and puppy. You might also want to use keyword strings like breeding dogs, canine breeding, new born puppies.

SEO Over Optimization
When you are optimizing your site with some solid keywords. You be careful not to over optimize your website. Over optimization occurs when people use a keyword too often. There should be no keywords or keyword strings that appears on your site or any given post on your site more than six to seven percent of the time. You should also avoid using the same keyword too densely in any given part of your website. For example, you have made your first dog breeding post and it contains four paragraphs, each of these paragraphs contain four sentences. The keyword dog makes up only five percent of your post but only in the first paragraph, this is an example of over using SEO. If your site is over optimized there is a chance it could be considered a spam site and that search engine bots could completely over look it or even mark it to be banned.

If you want to increase pageviews to your site you must learn to use SEO and push your site as high up in the search engines page ranks as possible. Below I have posted a tool to check your keyword density. Use this tool to make sure that you are using the correct keywords for your particular niche and that your site isn't over optimized.

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