Or used the meta keyword tag to drive search traffic?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nKeyword density is another tactic that is becoming pass\u00e9 as well. I still believe that good keyword density on a home page is still, at this point in time, a way to get organic traffic, but making the content readable is becoming much more important both for visitors and for search engines.<\/p>\n
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