Keyword Density
Keyword density is a measure of how many times your targeted
keyword or keyphrase is being used in the content of your web
page.
By repeating your important keyword, your increase the
prominence of those words to the search engines. This will help the
search engines to identify your target keyword and rank the web
page accordingly.
However, there is a penalty if you keyword stuff or use the same
keyword too many times in an unnatural way.
Repeating identical keywords or phrases for more than 3 times in
the body of the the page may actually damage than good as far as
the search engine algorithm is concerned.
Instead, use words with similar meaning - just like when you
write naturally. Search engines are smart enough to recognise words
with similar meaning and variations such as man, men, male, boy,
boys, masculine and etc.
In each page, focus on one or two keywords but not more than
three keywords so that it is apparent to the search engine what
your page is about.
Keyword Positioning
As much as possible, use the keyword or keyphrase in the heading
of the page, in the first sentence of the first paragraph and near
the bottom of the page.
As a rule of thumb, your most important keywords - the exact
phrase should not be repeated for more than 2% of the total word
count. If you have a 500 words page, keep the keywords count to
less than 10 times.
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