One of the things we are very proud of at innogage is our business blogging software, innoblogs. About a year ago, we got a little nuts with our blogging software and our goal to crack the ROI nut. We developed a mantra at innogage called “Search and Convert”. In other words, any enhancements to our blogging software were immediately halted if they did not relate explicitly to Search Engine Optimization or Customer Conversion – the two pieces of the ROI puzzle in social media.
The result was a cool piece of technology called the Search Engine Optimizer inside Innoblogs that coaches non-technical / non-SEO writers during the blog creation process to ensure that blog posts are strategic and driving brand, as well as being optimized for the RIGHT keywords and phrases for SEO.
Because of our diligence to building a collaborative blogging tool that optimizes for Search Engines, we recently struck a partnership with The Search Engine Academy! The partnership between innogage and the Search Engine Academy represents to major things.
- A global group of SEO experts loves our business blogging software (innoblogs) so much they want to use it and recommend it to others
- innogage has access to the incredible SEO knowledge across a global team of SEO practitioners
As we continue to build more and better functionality into our innoblogs business blogging tool, it's great to know the Search Engine Academy will be using our platform and assisting us as knowledge experts to help make our software even better.
Be sure to read the Press Release from Search Engine Academy!
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Keyword density as it concerns content optimization, is the percentage that a keyword appears in your content, as compared to the total number of words in your content. There was a time when keyword density was extremely important to your search engine rankings. Today, not so much. At least, not in the way it used to be.
Keyword density: old news, but still relevant
A little keyword density history
Over time, a couple of things began to happen. First, online content writers became proficient in applying keywords, and this method of website optimization became the norm. Second, webmasters began to take advantage of keywords, to the point that they abused them. Terms like keyword stuffing, search spam and spamdexing came about as a result of this abuse. Essentially, search engines are smart enough to realize when content has too many keywords and this can result in lower rankings for your website. In fact, it is Google’s policy to remove a website from their search engines if they find this happening. Why? One, they find it unethical, and two, keywords repeated endlessly renders your content useless to the reader. Remember, Google searches for quality content.
So when it comes to keyword density, content optimization doesn’t just mean slapping some keywords in your content to get noticed by the search engines. You need to find that perfect balance for content optimization. Too much is a bad thing; too little is not good enough. Most experts state that anywhere from 2 to 8 percent is a decent balance for keyword density. If that’s all we can use our keywords, then we better use them wisely.
Three things to do to “optimize” your keywords
- Give them prominence: put them in your title, near the top of the page, and in the start of your sentences.
- Give them proximity: that means, put two of your keywords, or keyword phrases together if you can do so naturally. For instance, if I am writing an article on content optimization, it would be good to start a sentence with these two phrases: When you are writing for the web, it is good to have search engine optimized content. The words in italices are the keywords (or phrases) in this situation.
- For the advanced writer, try to include a keyword or phrase in an H1 or H2 title tag. Search engines give these words a little higher priority than words buried elsewhere in your content.
If you do these things, and you always keep in mind that you need to maintain between 2 and 8 percent keyword density, you will have created keyword rich pages.
*Image credit: http://blogs.longwood.edu/mediacrit/
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