Elijah The Prophet

Keyword Density is key to SEO

All week I have been working on a program code that will increase the keyword density of this blog. SEO is very important these days and unfortunately the experts have all been repeating a fallacy such that webmasters have forgotten to think for themselves. A programmer knows how a computer thinks and a search robot thinks like a computer. If a robot compares your keywords and tags against your content and finds 100% density, then the robot can skip much of the remainder of its analysis code. The robot already knows that if a search parameter is one of those keywords or tags, that returning your page near the top of the results will give the customer (searcher) very relevant content.

To prove my case, I edited a mod for the SMF Forums and made a program function that compares a posted message to a predetermined list of keywords relevant to my forum’s theme, which is serving God through Christ. The function picks three levels of keywords to put into the:

meta name=”Keywords” content=”text”

of your html page.

The first level are any words greater than one character, in order to include the beginning few phrases of the message. The next level picks some words with more than six characters which would represent large words important to the subject of the message. The last and third level, picks words that match your keyword list. If the total from the three levels is not as many as set by the program, then up to three url links are added. yes, you can put urls in your meta keyword list. Details on the code can be found here: How to add meta name keywords from the post that is being read in SMF .

I certainly had naysayers among SMF SysOps, but within weeks my Google rank and Alexa rank shot up from nothing to 4 and 700,000 respectively. The reason was high keyword density. Many experts argue that content is king, but this approach is not entirely correct. Your content choice is perfect for all those human beings who are interested. Letting the search engines know what your content is, is the most important aspect of SEO management. Keyword density lets search engine robots know that whomever has interest in your content will find what they are looking for on your website.

Much of what passes for SEO service is a scam to promote the burgeoning new industry. You do not look for good keywords to attract users, but instead choose good keywords from actual words that are in your content. A good program to analyze your content against the theme of your website will do the hard work for you, and present you with weighted choices to put into your keyword list. The two main intentions are to use keywords that are repeated throughout your website, and are also mentioned on that specific html page. Let the search engine robots figure out how to place them on the search engine, because they do a great job for you. The search engines know that a page whose content is also highly related to the entire website, is more likely to give the searcher what he is wants. By contrast, another page which has what is being searched, but whose site is about altogether other things, will not be put on the first page of search results. Right?

Much analysis has gone into the code for my keyword function. I can not take all the credit for this masterpiece because God helped me pursue the idea from the start. Many people told me that I was wasting my time, and I had to resist listening to much contrary advice. God knows. Even if a page is off topic for your website, the program includes up to three urls from your website. If your website has good rank then if someone is searching for that off topic content, the search engine will still put your page near the top. The reason is, the content, though off topic, matches the search parameters, and you have a high rank. Forums and Blogs should be king of the results pages on search engines. The webmasters of these sites are not managing their SEO properly. To raise your rank, let the search engines know what your content is with high keyword density. There are no tricks about it. The reason this approach works so well, is that your total website score will be high. Add the high keyword density of each page together and the robot will say, “wow! This website is highly efficient”. Can you say instant Google rank 4?

As far as link exchange goes, you will want to give, in order to receive. Instead of looking for sites with high rank and begging to exchange links, look for sites whose content highly correlates with yours and put their link on your site. They do not need to put your link on their site. You will create a nexus of sites with relevant content and raise all boats. And then look who has all the links on their site? You. Instant web ring potential. Instant community potential. Instant Wordpress MU free blogs potential. All with your site as the hub because of work you did without asking the other sites to help or paying anyone to help.

So, this week I am adding the keyword function to my WordPress blog. I started by researching the web for any WordPress plugins or programs that would help me. I found three programs:

Autometa
Simple Tagging for WordPress
related-posts-2.04.zip

I cut and paste my keyword function from the SMF Display.php into the autometa.php and I got no errors on my first call! I had to make changes to autometa and simple tagging to make everything work the way I want. Remember to NOT use a keyword meta field with related posts. The related posts plugin picks the best related posts from just the title, and picks much better than simple tagging’s related posts option. I turned OFF the simple tagging’s keyword option. I changed the tag suggestion code to work with my own list of system wide tags. There is work involved which consists of training the program to know your site’s content. A test mode is used to string all content of a posting into one line with plus signs in between the words. When you see a word or phrase you like, cut and paste it into the program code array. The next time you run the program it will offer that word or phrase as a tag suggestion.

Once I train the program then I will have tags that are highly related to my entire blog and 100% related to each post! In addition the meta keyword list is 100% related to the post. Lastly, I found out by mistake that by exporting the tags as categories with autometa, my mirror blogs will have categories that are highly related to the post. This by product of the program helps with free blogs where you can not choose your own plugins. A trade off, however, is that your WordPress category list will become HUGE. This trade off is worth it to me, because they are mirror blogs and their SEO will improve and point back to the main blog site. As an aside, I am also using you comment I follow or do follow.

There are many other ancillary benefits to this approach to SEO management for blogs, forums and websites. One is that you can create new buzzwords that can become popular. Example: smf sysops. Please do a google search on that one. Or you can use buzz phrases and expect your page to go near the top of searches on that phrase. You can also expect more linkbacks as your pages become the expert page on a particular topic. I am expecting this blog entry to become popular within one month. I will come back to it next month and give you a report!

If anyone knows how to contact Rich Boakes the author of autometa then please ask him to contact me. I would like to share the code I have with him. I have left messages on his site. Thank you.

glenda
aka ladynada
aka Me114

p.s. I will show you the autometa meta field for the meta keyword list produced by my code in a comment. And then I will show you the mytags meta field content produced to create suggest tags in another comment. I will load up most of those as tags, and as categories on my mirror blogs, as I expect to write on these subjects more.

p.p.s. If any programmers out there adapt my code for their use please mention one of my web urls and give me some blog love!