KEYWORD & SEO Advice

:cat3:I work hard trying to do good seo and have always implemented 3 groups of keywords within a site. 2 for high traffic, 3 for medium traffic and 3 or 4 for lower traffic. When doing this, I also bold, highlight or underline the keywords. I create a title and description using as many medium and low traffic keywords as I know I can hit #1 relatively quickly even if a new site. My question is has the practice for bolding, highlighting and underlining now been ignored by google or is it still recognizing this. Within my optimization, I also place my keyword by priority placements and strategically throughout the site. I am also finding that some people don't believe in this anymore. Help Please?

snowflys said:

:cat3:I work hard trying to do good seo and have always implemented 3 groups of keywords within a site. 2 for high traffic, 3 for medium traffic and 3 or 4 for lower traffic. When doing this, I also bold, highlight or underline the keywords. I create a title and description using as many medium and low traffic keywords as I know I can hit #1 relatively quickly even if a new site. My question is has the practice for bolding, highlighting and underlining now been ignored by google or is it still recognizing this. Within my optimization, I also place my keyword by priority placements and strategically throughout the site. I am also finding that some people don't believe in this anymore. Help Please?

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I think Google still recognizes it and gives you some ranking for those terms but it is marginal when compared to backlinking and especially title/url/h1/h2 tags. Stuff has to be really low competition or have words from your primary target that is ranked high.

Meaning if your title/h1/url had "fluffy bunnies" and you built links for that, etc. You could put "pink fluffy bunnies" in bold somewhere and rank for that as well if it's low competition or you had enough power just for "fluffy bunnies" that it starts to consider you an authority for that topic. However, the difference between putting it in bold and just having it on your site somewhere is marginal I think.

You may want to also consider sprinkling in some LSI keywords throughout your content. Google rewards me with high rankings when I do this and that's the way I build every single content page now.

I find the LSI keywords by putting my primary keyword in the Google Adwords keyword tool and taking the top 5 or 10 results. I use those LSI keywords in my content and I've had no trouble getting first page rankings even for competitive keywords.

I have some new sites I've built and it works for them too. But I like to buy aged domain names to build my new sites on and I write my own original content not any rewritten stuff so that gives me a little advantage also.

I do research in reverse engineering Google's "Content Score" portion of their rank equation.

Best HTML Tags for SEO - The Current Rankings...

"Best HTML Tags" are refreshed every 15 minutes.

rank - Indicates where it fell in the SERPs.

test - Indicates what was being tested.

code - Indicates the ordinal of the test page's link on the index of tests that was submitted to Google

rank test code
1 title 001
2 title 001
3 dl > dt > dd 055
4 blockquote 014
5 p 011
6 thead > td 050
7 tfoot > td 051
8 samp 027
9 dfn 025
10 u 007
11 h5 061
12 h6 062
13 caption 021
14 q 043
15 tfoot > td 051
16 acronym 016
17 sub 047
18 var 029
19 strike 046
20 p 011
21 legend 030
22 h4 060
23 b 006
24 h1 003
25 samp 027
26 strike 046
27 i 008
28 ins 034
29 ins 034
30 big 019
31 h6 062
32 span 012
33 center 022
34 h5 061
35 label.for 035
36 body 002
37 h3 005
38 del 024
39 em 026
40 big 019
41 h4 060
42 small 045
43 td 049
44 q 043
45 dl > dt 054
46 abbr 015
47 acronym 016
48 code 023
49 font 031
50 legend 030
51 caption 058
52 h1 003
53 textarea 033
54 i 008
55 kbd 028
56 strong 009
57 address 017
58 pre 042
59 h2 004
60 ul.li 036
61 tt 018
62 div 013
63 span 012
64 h2 004
65 ul.li 036
66 pre 042
67 caption 058
68 strong 009
69 s 044
70 em 026
71 caption 021
72 index index
73 img.alt 053
74 select > option 040
75 a 056
76 img.alt 053
77 meta-author.value 039
78 meta-description.value 037
79 object > param.name 041
80 document document
81 meta-value.value 038
82 input-input.value 032
83 a.href 057
84 a.href 057
85 unknown other

tag A > tag B - Nesting of Tag B within Tag A

tag . attribute - Using an attribute inside the opening tag

index - A page linking to all the tests

document - An empty page with the secret keywords in the document name
path - An empty page with the secret keywords in the the url path

unknown - Not a test, but probably a registrar log entry about the creation of the domain name

NOTE: Some tests don't appear in the Google results. All Tags and Attributes are continually tested. We obtained our list of tags from w3schools

NOTE: Some tests appear more than once in the results at times. This happens when Google ranks both www.domain.com/test014.html and www.domain.com/test014.html. In the near future I may resolve this by using canonical tags to credit the best url for the content. Currently I don't understand why google crawls both. I only submitted the www. version.

see: http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo/116692-wh-info-bh-mind.html for details on my method.

Yes, these methods are still recognized by Google. I've had particular success with the <strong>keyword</strong> tags and italic tags as well. I don't particularly use underline but I suppose it still helps.

Can you IM your system. It is partially blanked out. or even send me and email here or whatever works so my computer can read it. Thank you so much!!

Very choicy info in this thread. A lot of us are understanding SEO as the perfect alternative to the fussy, temporary CL effects. Smart SEO is much better results for our efforts and nothing here is black hat so far but it still makes higher page ranks quicker than the traditional 6 months.

(Thinking out loud.) Hmm. I think it's a good idea to have some keyword structure. It keeps the site focused on its objectives.

Very low impact on serps I will say it is fine tunning...

Nemanja

snowflys said:

:cat3:I work hard trying to do good seo and have always implemented 3 groups of keywords within a site. 2 for high traffic, 3 for medium traffic and 3 or 4 for lower traffic. When doing this, I also bold, highlight or underline the keywords. I create a title and description using as many medium and low traffic keywords as I know I can hit #1 relatively quickly even if a new site. My question is has the practice for bolding, highlighting and underlining now been ignored by google or is it still recognizing this. Within my optimization, I also place my keyword by priority placements and strategically throughout the site. I am also finding that some people don't believe in this anymore. Help Please?

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I just put everything in blue, works for me too.

Just put metatags like h1 to embrace your main keyword and then use h2 and h3 for other relevant but not big keywords in your content. You can underline a bit just don't over do it. Otherwise i think you are on to something.

All the best.