What is more important? Keywords or Content

Posted By: djbusiness ()
Posted On: 2008-Jan-13 20:57

What is worth more in the end for SEO, the quality of the keywords, would you say quality is based on having unique relevent keywords (keyphrase). Or is it worth more to have big sections of relevent text on your webpage.


Posted By: beth_lk (Staff)
Posted On: 2008-Jan-13 21:13

Well from a SEO view both are equal in my opinion. From a visitors point of view - content is most important as you always want to be thinking of your viewers first smile



Posted By: Quadrille ()
Posted On: 2008-Jan-13 21:33

The point is to have enough copy for the SEs to get their teeth into; it will do better if it's unique, and one page should only target a couple of key phrases at most.

The key words should be chosen based on terms your target audience will use in searches.

And once finished, the content should be attractive and make sense to the visitor. Over optimized pages don't just upset SEs - they put off visitors, too. No point getting the SEs to bring visitors, if you then show them a poorly presented non-sensical site (and we've all seen them!).

Balance all those points, and you'll do just fine.

Coincidentally, they are all largely common sense wink


Posted By: animated3d ()
Posted On: 2008-Jan-13 22:58

keywords are the first steps to know your niche and what your target audience would be looking for, then after you know the right keywords you build in the content for them


Posted By: amelia_seo ()
Posted On: 2008-Jan-14 03:47

for me both are important:D


Posted By: amelia_seo ()
Posted On: 2008-Jan-14 03:47

for me both are important:D


Posted By: mj1256 ()
Posted On: 2008-Jan-14 03:52

content


Posted By: splendidcredit ()
Posted On: 2008-Jan-14 18:06

well..I think in my point of view..they're both important..



Posted By: akashdwivedi ()
Posted On: 2008-Jan-23 06:51

What I understood - Keyword rich unique content is important for SEs to rank whereas visitors like to have simple and attractive content.

Although I never find it easy to write much content on the basis of some related terms only.

Hence both of them are important for the web page.


Posted By: kynduvme ()
Posted On: 2008-Jan-23 20:27

Relevant, Original Content with your keyword focus at heart is how you should think about it. Do not get overly hung up on density percentages and word counts.


Posted By: shilpi_sem ()
Posted On: 2008-Jan-24 10:40

Both the things are important and go hand in hand to get high rankings. Proper keyword research with targeted audience being the main focus and SEO copywriting makes a site more user as well as SE friendly from content point of view.


Posted By: virkais ()
Posted On: 2008-Jan-30 05:58

Well from a SEO view both are equal important.
From a visitors point of view CONTENT is more important as you always want to be thinking of your viewers first.
Keywords are the first steps to know your niche and what your target audience would be looking for, then after you know the right keywords you build in the content for them. and in this way you dont have to worry coz the u have a content who has good keywords in it. smile


Posted By: jeany1114 ()
Posted On: 2008-Feb-05 15:49

choosing the right KWs is essential in SEO and to succeed with it, it must go along with a good quality content


Posted By: excell (Staff)
Posted On: 2008-Feb-05 16:30

Ha - both are useless if you don't have other things in place wink


Posted By: SportsGuy (Staff)
Posted On: 2008-Feb-05 17:39

unique content


Posted By: guinanie ()
Posted On: 2008-Feb-06 15:31

Content with unique relevant keywords or phrases is the most important factor for seo


Posted By: animated3d ()
Posted On: 2008-Feb-06 18:33

i think of it this way like building a house: keywords are the foundation,content is the bricks,wall..etc.. , links are the accessories such as light,electricity and so on they all need each other for the house9site) to do well.


Posted By: Rezac ()
Posted On: 2008-Feb-20 23:33

Just be natural, sprinkle in those phrases with care,...20 instances of the same search phrase on a page would be absurd.

I think I may understand your what you're trying to identify:

What is the right ratio of keyphrase words to non-targeted phrases/words.

Then, if you find that magic ratio, stick to it, could you amplify or improve SE ratings by increasing the amount of "alleged" relevant content? I personally don't believe so.

Maybe I'm in left field there....But just keep it natural.