Content Search Engines Love

One of the most important steps to take to ensure that your site
is successful is to have a site that is well-loved by search
engines. This is actually fairly easy to do—but also fairly easy
not to do. It is a known fact that well-placed keywords and
keyword phrases on a piece of content will attract search engine
spiders. It is also a well-known fact that keyword
stuffing—using keywords way too much—will repel spiders and stop
them from putting your site on a search engine.

So what is the delicate balance of having just the right amount
of keywords and keyword phrases? How do you achieve it? How do
you make sure you aren’t overusing keywords? In this newsletter,
we will go over all of the above to help make your site keyword
optimized.

How do I write content that the search engines love?

The easy answer is to make sure your content has several
keywords. But how is this done in a natural way so not as to
hurt your traffic from actual human beings? Well, it all comes
down to naturally putting keywords into your content. We’ll
briefly go over this process.

#1: Sit down and decide what your content will be about

If your site is all about sports, figure out what kinds of
sports content you’ll put on there. Maybe you’ll write about
basketball or golf or football or any other sport. Or if you’re
running a music site, you could write content about a particular
style of music or band/artist. The point is, make sure that
whatever content you write is relevant to your site.

#2: Make a list of keywords that are relevant to your content

So if you’re writing a music article, these keywords could be:

Rock
Pop
Country
Rap
R&B
Hip Hop
Guitar

But try to narrow your list down to 2 or 3 keywords. The first
keyword should be a primary keyword(used at least 10 times in a
500 word document) and the other one or two should be secondary
keywords(used a few times each in a 500 word document).

#3: Begin writing the content.

As you write each sentence, try to think about where the primary
and secondary keywords might fit in. Wherever it seems natural,
use the keywords. However, you should never try to make them fit
where they don’t fit. If it looks unnatural, don’t use them.

#4: Read over the content.

When you read over the content, try to read it like a visitor
would. Do the keywords you’ve tried to incorporate in the text
distract you from the meaning of the content? Do the keywords
seem blatant? If they do, rewrite the content to make it flow
more naturally.

#5: Count the number of keywords and plain words

If you have a 500 word piece of content, you’ll want to see
around 5-15 primary keywords sprinkled throughout the content—a
keyword density of at least 1%, but ideally 3%. Keyword density
is the number of keywords divided by the total number of words.
A keyword density of 1% in a 500 word piece of content would be
5 keywords, while a keyword density of 3% in a 500 word piece of
content would be 15 keywords. Strive for 3%.

#6: If you don’t have enough keyword density, or have too much,
rewrite the content

Rewrite your content as necessary to have enough keyword
density.

Why is keyword “stuffing” bad for my site?

It is bad for your site simply because search engine spiders
have been programmed to skip over sites with excessive keywords.
These would be sites with keyword densities of at least 10%.
Sites like these are known as spam sites—sites created
specifically to earn high rankings in a search engine due to
high keyword usage. Before, spam sites would be heavily ranked
in a search engine, but not anymore. Spiders are smarter than
ever, able to detect spam sites from a mile away.

That’s why keyword stuffing is a bad thing for your site—it will
actually keep spiders from visiting. Make sure you do not have a
keyword density of much more than 5%. Even 5% is considered too
high.

Keeping the above things in mind will help you to build a site
that search engine spiders love.

Creating and maintaining a site with content that search
engine spiders love is easy as long as you follow the guidelines!

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