{"id":39,"date":"2007-02-13T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=39"},"modified":"2007-02-13T07:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T12:37:00","slug":"want-top-organic-search-engine-placement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2007\/02\/13\/want-top-organic-search-engine-placement\/","title":{"rendered":"Want Top Organic Search Engine Placement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want top organic search engine placement, then you absolutely must use the tool that we use.  Click our blog post title to view this neat online tool that is instrumental in getting good search engine organic placement.  It is a keyword density tool.<\/p>\n<p>Now the real trick comes in to just how much density on your keywords do you need to have.  Well if you need to move up in the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">SERPs<\/span> you should be looking for 5 to 7% density on your chosen narrow keywords.  Google and <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">MSN<\/span> like about 3% at this point, so I might hedge to be around 5% at this point.  You know we don&#8217;t want to spam the engines do we?  It used to be that 7% was my benchmark, but I am seeing more chatter on this topic in the professional forums and I think that I will personally be striving for about 5% or so at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Easy?  Well go ahead and try to write readable content that looks good, sounds good, and makes sense to a reader all the while catering to the search engines.  It is tough, it is a craft, and it is an art.  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