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Can you be penalized for having to many keywords by search engines? or is it more the merrier?
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Paul,
are you talking about keywords in your website or on adwords?
you can't be penalised for having too many on adwords, of course - the more you have the happier they are
on your site, you definitely can be - there was an example somewhere on one of these threads a little while ago where someone had a phrase too often and got thrown off google more or less - search on recent threads with e words google and sandbox and I'm sure it'll turn up
I think about 3-5% maximum is recommended - ie each keyword should make up to 5% of the words in a page. In any event, if you use much more than this a page starts to sound like a search engine document rather than an interesting document.
I try and have about 5 or six keywords / phrases per page - hence why I have quite a lot of pages in my sites rather than the 'keep it simple' approach often recommended here. It's difficult to call one house a gite, a villa, a farmhouse and a rental property all in one page...
Incidentally a new site I am working on and only registered and published for the first time two weeks ago has already been identified by google for certain keywords, so they can be picked up quite quickly if you plan carefully - it doesn't have to take months as has been suggested
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are you talking about keywords in your website or on adwords?
you can't be penalised for having too many on adwords, of course - the more you have the happier they are
on your site, you definitely can be - there was an example somewhere on one of these threads a little while ago where someone had a phrase too often and got thrown off google more or less - search on recent threads with e words google and sandbox and I'm sure it'll turn up
I think about 3-5% maximum is recommended - ie each keyword should make up to 5% of the words in a page. In any event, if you use much more than this a page starts to sound like a search engine document rather than an interesting document.
I try and have about 5 or six keywords / phrases per page - hence why I have quite a lot of pages in my sites rather than the 'keep it simple' approach often recommended here. It's difficult to call one house a gite, a villa, a farmhouse and a rental property all in one page...
Incidentally a new site I am working on and only registered and published for the first time two weeks ago has already been identified by google for certain keywords, so they can be picked up quite quickly if you plan carefully - it doesn't have to take months as has been suggested
cheers
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A couple of explanatory articles on keywords:
What they are and what you do with them:
http://www.marketingwords.com/articles/ ... words.html
How often to use them:
http://www.marketingwords.com/articles/ ... rmula.html
One thing to bear in mind - don't let the keywords get in the way of a good read. Too much repetition will put off your human readers. Try reading your text out loud to see if it sounds stilted, or get someone else to read it and give you their view.
What they are and what you do with them:
http://www.marketingwords.com/articles/ ... words.html
How often to use them:
http://www.marketingwords.com/articles/ ... rmula.html
One thing to bear in mind - don't let the keywords get in the way of a good read. Too much repetition will put off your human readers. Try reading your text out loud to see if it sounds stilted, or get someone else to read it and give you their view.
Paolo
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I second that.
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