The Other Search Engines

**brokensoul2271** · 05-12-2005, 12:09 PM

I was just wondering how high your keyword density should be before its classed as spam. I remember someone saying it shoul be really low??? 3.88 isnt bad is it? for a single word...

**chrishirst** · 05-12-2005, 02:25 PM

keyword density is just another myth. There isn't any such thing as ideal each site/phrase is different. Create pages for users they are the ones with credit cards.
Write your copy, Read the page aloud, if it makes sense it's fine

**brokensoul2271** · 05-12-2005, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

they are the ones with credit cards.

I'm not selling anything, heh heh. I'm not going to be penalised for having many keywords though am I?

**chrishirst** · 05-12-2005, 07:29 PM

only by your visitors if it reads like a spammy doorway page.

if you think about it, the SEs do rank the auto generated spam doorway pages that are simply a keyword list. But it's not the density that gets them binned, it's the redirect footprint.

**brokensoul2271** · 05-13-2005, 10:48 AM

Ahhh.. I see. So I should be fine then... I'll take a couple out just to be on the safe side.. Web CEO reckons I have 1 too many.. Anyway thanks for the help!

**RichTC** · 05-13-2005, 10:39 PM

I would say watch your density. 3.88 should be ok. Anything more than 6% is a risk imo, also more than 11 mentions of the same keyword is risky???? Anyone else noticed this?

Without doubt some kind of google filter will hold you back in the serps if you have too many keywords in a short space of each other as well, at 3.88% you may get hit by the filter if you have say keyword, word, keyword etc close to each other.

I also notice that it looks like older sites or high PR sites have a little more flexibility with regard to spam pages. Ive seen sites with pages with 9% density ranking well but never on sites less than a 3 yrs old.

No one knows for certain but as the previous poster said, make your content of use to visitors and you should be ok