How to Utilize Keywords and Keyword Density

Any web developer or web article writer needs to have a firm grasp of exactly what keywords are and what keyword density is, in order to get good search engine and directory placement. Many people understand that quality content is important, but what good is quality content if no one can find it? That’s what keywords do for you, help your readers find your content.

Keywords are help your readers or site viewers find your site or content. What you need to do, in order to get page hits for whatever you want your viewers to read, is figure out exactly what phrases or words your readers might use in order to search for the type of information you have. But more importantly, you don’t want to use popular words that everyone would be using in their articles, because then you are competing with all the other articles and sites out there writing about the same thing.

Let me explain. If you are writing an article about cooking, using the keyword ‘cooking’ would not really get you high rankings in search engines, because 1) it’s a common word, and 2) every other article about cooking and every other site about cooking will be using that keyword too.

So let’s look at what your content is really about. Perhaps you are writing an article about cooking with jalapeno peppers – well, there’s one of your potential search phrases right there. Chances are, that would be your title, or at least part of your title, of the article or the webpage you are building pertaining to ‘cooking with jalapeno peppers.’

Now, that is a keyword phrase, and each one of those words, with the exception of the word ‘with,’ will also be individual keywords. Let’s look at the Google Search Engine results page for ‘cooking with jalapeno peppers.’ Right CLICK HERE and open this link in a new page, in order to open the search results page so you can follow along.