Stripping Excess Words From Your Blog
Sticking with my theme lately of blog SEO, let’s talk about keywords, search engines and excess words on your blog.
I found this post over at Digital Point mentioning this strategy of stripping “garbage” words that affect your keyword density.
Every blog has them - they are words in the template like “RSS2.0″ and “Add Your Comment” - all stuff that is necessary but can possibly be done better.
Now, as I have never tried it, I don’t really know how useful it would be, but it certainly easy to implement if you have a spare 20 minutes and the upside could be enough to bump you up a few spots in the SERPs.
The basic reason that it could very well work is that those words still have an effect on your keyword density from the point of view of a search engine which only sees your page as a bunch of code.
Stripping those words out of the page simply remoeves them from the equation of the search engines where they could possibly detract from your results in chasing position for certain keywords.
You could even replace them with images if you wanted to.
Something to think about for when you are really trying to squeeze every last bit of SEO out of yout blog.
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April 14th, 2006 at 1:45 pm