Do comments dilute KW density?

by rob1123

Posted: 15 years ago 8 replies

Comments add to page content right? So unless each comment contain the pages KW surely density goes down surely.

#comments #density #dilute

dp40oz 15 years ago

The better question IMO is do you really think a keyword density of 2.38% or 2.12% is really going to effect your rankings in anyway? I wouldn't sweat keyword density these days at all.
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- aygabtu 15 years ago
  
  Make sure your keywords are in your title, description, and h1/h2 tags along with them being in the first 200-300 words. That is where the weighting is worth the most. I've read search engines don't even bother with content past the first 500 words or so.
  
  Don't worry so much.
  
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  dp40oz 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by aygabtu
  
  I've read search engines don't even bother with content past the first 500 words or so.
  
  Thats not true at all. If that were true pages like Wikipedia would loose 90% of their traffic considering the majority of their results are from keywords present throughout the articles. Also PDF's would be useless in searches.
  
  You may be referring to way back in the early days of search, like the late 90's early 2000's Google recommended KB page limits because their bots could only crawl a certain amount of KB's. But thats long gone.
  
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dadamson 15 years ago

Don't worry too much about keyword density, the fact that real people are leaving comments on your site and interacting with your content would be much more beneficial than the small percentage you lose on keyword density.

Also, as for the comment about search engines not reading anything past the first 500 words... where did you read that?

Flat out untrue.
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Buyseech

15 years ago

The more content the better.

The more (real) comments the better.

Dont bother with the density. If the comments are real and relevant people will use the phrases in the comments as well.

Sincerely, Buyseech

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aygabtu

15 years ago

Here is an example quote from an SEO site. I've read it other places too:

"In the HTML code for the page, the text should be as close to the beginning of the page as possible, because there is a limit to how far down into a page a search engine spider will go to try to find text. It is generally agreed that this is 3kb. That's only about 80-100 lines of code! So make sure your text comes before some really long JavaScript menu in the code for the page, or else the search engine won't make it far enough into the page to index the text. They'll never see the text if it is buried way down at the end of the code. "

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