DIY SEO: Step 4 – Keyword Density

This is the sixth post in our DIY SEO for WordPress series.

Short, but illuminating exercise today: determining your keyword density.

What’s Keyword Density?

Keyword density is how often your keywords appear in your text relative to other words. Let’s say you’ve got a 500-word post and you’ve used your keyword 25 times – that’s a keyword density of 5% (25/500 = 5%) – and that’s the target that’s most widely recommended. Any more than that and you run the risk of Google thinking you’re “stuffing”…

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New Site: Paradigm Shift

Please help me welcome Michelle Lee, CH to not only the vAS family of websites, but to the wonderful world of WordPress!

Michelle was previously blogging over at Blogger, but decided to make the switch to WordPress (yay!) with the Set Me Up, Get Me Started & Guide Me package to ensure she’s able to hit the ground running.

Take a minute and visit Paradigm Shift. Leave her a comment and let her know what a great decision she’s made moving to WordPress.

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DIY SEO: Step 3 – Headings, Bold and Italics

This is the fifth post in our DIY SEO for WordPress series.

We’re heading into more familiar territory in this step. You’re probably already used to highlighting words and phrases within your text using bold and italics. The only thing new here is to be a little more purposeful about your highlighting.

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DIY SEO: Step 2 – Page Title, Page Description and Keywords

This is the fourth post in our DIY SEO for WordPress series.

You’ve done your keyword research, you’ve got your list of keywords you want to optimize for, and now it’s time to put all that good research to use.

Ready?

When it comes to SEO that you can do for your site, the page title, page description and the keywords in your keyword META tag are extremely important. But let’s clear up a point of potential confusion before we start.

Your page title is NOT what you think it is…

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New Site: The Guilt Free Mom

Hey everyone, help me welcome Karen Bierdeman, M.Ed, The Guilt Free Mom Parent Coach to the vAS family! Karen’s specialty is coaching moms with strong-willed children. As the parent of a couple of strong-willed children, myself, I found myself on the pages of Karen’s free e-book, “Secrets and Lies About Parenting Strong-Willed Children: What You [...]

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