Wheres the line at keyword stuffing?

[woopwoop]

Is it good practice or keyword stuffing to try and get the main keywords in as often as possible?

For example, a geo forum you might want to stress the geo name often. But would you want to name each of the forums:

geo name general chat
geo name for sale
geo name accommodation
geo name jobs

in which case your breadcrumb would look like:

Birmingham Forums > Birmingham Classifieds > Birmingham Accommodation

This will probably put the geo name in page titles and in H1 tags etc depending on the forum software...

Is this overdoing it though? If the forum is just starting there will be no other content - just these headers and forum names?

Would a breacdcrumb trail like the following be better:

Birmingham Forums > Classifieds > Accommodation

or am I missing out on a good opportunity to get people searching for "birmingham accommodation" by not listing ... > ... > Birmingham Accommodation ?


Many thanks for any help - this is a big project and so am trying to get it right at the start...

 

[loredan]

Keyword density is a tricky thing. There is no absolute figure for choosing the right keyword density. Some people would recommend the following:

Title : 30% - 50%
Meta Description : 12% - 17%
Page Content - 3.5% - 9%

...some other people believe that Kw density it's just a myth...

I'd say prepare your forum for people rather than for search engines and the search engines will follow...

Both breadcrumbs above are fine...it's just that the first example it's a bit more targeted (both for users and SE's)

From the two above I'd choose the second one (for Kw dilution reasons). Your sub-forums titles would look like "Classifieds|Birmingham Forums" or "Accommodation|Birmingham Forums" so you still have the city name in the titles.

Hope this helps,

Thanks

 

[crat3rs]

Keywords got it's own formula also. Using keyword more than 3% is considered search spam.

(4*3/400)*100

or

(Nkr/Tkn)*100 =keyword density value

Nkr=times you use the same keyword,
Tkn=total words in the analyzed text
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