New Website

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Originally Posted by krichardson

Thanks, Darren.

I like your site as well. Is that a custom CMS site?

Kevin

It's either Joomla or Mambo to me. Nice template. I'd suggest using sh404 for the SEF URL's as it'll allow you to get rid of the index.php for each page address.

[dbelmont]

Originally Posted by krichardson

Don,

Thanks for the heads up!!

I'm in the process of adding the description and keywords for each page. However, you got me on the density. I have no idea about that.

Kevin

Simplified the density is how the search engines judge relevancy of your website to a particular search phrase. You telegraph what you think is important on the site by using the Tital, Description and Keyword metatags.

Then the page itself is parsed and the recognized words/phrass that are in the metas are compared to the page copy. Typically you want at least 1% but I've always found 2-4% a good target. If it gets to high the search engine might flag you as spam but they do seem to use a more sophisticated algorithm then just keyword density to flag spam site.

The agreement between the metas and the body copy give the search engine an intital idea that the site is about xxxxxx. Of course the engine can't read so it's doing a strictly mathematical comparison.

Not the end all and be all but important.

[Dominic J. Maricic]

One of the most important things that guys don't realize is that if you don't have content in the body of the document to match the page title, keywords and description then none of them will have an effect! I usually aim on the higher end of 3-4% like Don said, but in reality I just try to work in the phrases where they will make sense.

[dbelmont]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

One of the most important things that guys don't realize is that if you don't have content in the body of the document to match the page title, keywords and description then none of them will have an effect! I usually aim on the higher end of 3-4% like Don said, but in reality I just try to work in the phrases where they will make sense.

And I agree with Dom.

Your copy needs to make sense to people too. Without being just a string a keywords and phrases. But good copy for people can also be good copy for the search engines. But it can feel like a bit of a balancing act at times.

Beyond 3-4% density you can enhance the effect if you can include the keywords/phrases in heading tags or as links to other pages on your site. There's also some weighting for them occurring towards the top.

[Dale Duffy]

Originally Posted by krichardson

Just launched my new "The Home Green Team" website. I still need to add some images, but what do you think?

www.thehomegreenteam.com

Kevin

Nice Kevin....Good Work...!!