{"id":45,"date":"2008-06-26T14:42:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T19:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/?p=45"},"modified":"2008-06-27T11:17:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T16:17:24","slug":"seo-and-title-tag-density","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/2008\/06\/seo-and-title-tag-density\/","title":{"rendered":"SEO and title tag density"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How does keyword density in the title tag affect search engine placement? On Facts about Title Keyword Density<\/a>, it says that Live.com<\/a> rewards high keyword density in a title tag, whereas Google.com<\/a> punishes high keyword density in a title tag.<\/p>\n

I don’t really care about search engines other than Google. I’ve heard SEO experts claim that Yahoo! and MSN\/Live still contribute a fair number of clicks, but that’s not true according to my server stats. I’d like to find out if Google really does punish keyword density in a title tag.<\/p>\n

I created 3 similar pages for a fictional person, whose name currently return zero results in Google. Using the name as the search term, there are 3 different keyword weights.<\/p>\n

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  1. Test A<\/a> (100%)<\/li>\n
  2. Test B<\/a> (50%)<\/li>\n
  3. Test C<\/a> (9%)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This may not be the best test methodology, but at least it’s a start. In a few days, I’ll see how Google ranks them. Any opinions on how the pages will rank?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    How does keyword density in the title tag affect search engine placement? On Facts about Title Keyword Density, it says that Live.com rewards high keyword density in a title tag, whereas Google.com punishes high keyword density in a title tag. I don’t really care about search engines other than Google. I’ve heard SEO experts claim … Continue reading SEO and title tag density<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}