Friday, May 28, 2010

Keyword Proximity for SEO

For Search Engine Optimization or SEO, the proximity of your keywords a phrase is important to how you will rank in search engine results.

Keyword proximity (distance in space) refers to how close your keywords are and how they fit into the context of your writing. In general, closer keywords are better; of course they have to make sense (contextual relevance). You must avoid keyword stuffing and think about keyword order as well.

Keywords are important in all parts of your posts: titles, headers, paragraphs and page content.

Here is an example with the search “quality dog food”:

  • Your dog kennel deserves our quality products and food services

  • You deserve our high quality dog food in your kennel today

  • This restaurant has no quality and their food isn’t fit for a dog


All of these have the key words with the exact same keyword density and they are roughly the same length. If everything else is equal a search will probably give the second one preferential search engine ranking.

Chris Randall

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