Keyword Density - Secret to Being #1
Last Update: June 22, 2010
Last week I rewrote the 6 articles that make up one of my sites to increase the keyword density from 2% and less to between 3.1% and 3.4%. I published the new changes on the 15th.
The interesting thing, I started to rank for 6 keywords I was not fighting for (with positions of 4, 4, 122, 162,59, and 5 respectively, the 1st and 4th of these have decent traffic, the others get less than 500 searches, exact match) and for keywords that contained misspelling of a word, one of them is actually #1 (unfortunately, between the bunch of them, they don't have even 500 exact match searches a month).
Here are the results 1 week later (you'll notice that 1,2,3,6,7,8 stuck, 11 improved:
14-Jun | 15-Jun | 16-Jun | 17-Jun | 18-Jun | 19-Jun | 20-Jun | 21-Jun | 22-Jun | |
1 | 46 | 45 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 48 | 56 | 2 | 2 |
2 | 162 | 115 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 110 | 90 | 4 | 4 |
3 | 110 | 83 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 96 | 139 | 4 | 4 |
4 | 101 | 101 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 126 | 166 | 160 | 164 |
5 | 296 | 288 | 289 | 318 | 325 | 321 | 442 | 439 | 422 |
6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 18 | 1 | 3 |
7 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
9 | 235 | 89 | 87 | 88 | 134 | 132 | 43 | 121 | 140 |
10 | 460 | 115 | 115 | 118 | 114 | 114 | 149 | 147 | 144 |
11 | 489 | 195 | 93 | 196 | 202 | 197 | 108 | 106 | 112 |
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jatdebeaune
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Really respect the way you track things, Dusan. I have number resistance for some reason. You have to look at numbers. How else would you know?
maureenhannan
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Okay, you've convinced me. I'm going to get more aggressive with using my keywords. Thanks for sharing your stats, Dusan!