Number of occurances of a keyword
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At the moment my site is down due to issue at the datat centre so please don't ask for teh url as it will be some time before it is back up and running.
On one of my pages I am targeting two related keyword phrases e.g. "How to use Widgets" and "Using Widgets"
Each of these phrases appears once each in the Tile tag, H1 tag and meta description and two or three times in the body text. Which I beileve is current best practice.
However the word Widgets appears more 60 times in total could this be hurting the rankings of the other two phrases?
Many Thanks
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Thanks for the answers and suggestions.
Yes my friend did answer "widgets"
I have printed it and and read on paper rather than screen and now it does make f or some bad reading so changes are to be made.
Reading the link from eyepaq help me decide not to split the page into two as then the content would have been too thin.
So once again many thanks
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Have a friend reading the page and ask fast "whats your name" after that.
If he will reply: "Widgets" then you are going over board with the keyword on page
Just kidding - anyway, the friend approach works well - have someone that is not familiar with the site to read the page and if at a first glance it will make sense and it's you are not going over board with how many times you are saying it then it's ok.
A very good guideline that you can use, that if you manage to de-attached your self from the site, can really help.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.at/2011/05/more-guidance-on-building-high-quality.html
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Keyword density is irrelevant unless you are just spamming the crap out of the page with it. Assuming you are writing naturally I'd have to guess its a really long page to get your partial keyword in there 60 times. If you aren't writing naturally, fix it of course. If however its not a big block of text we are talking about here but rather an ecommerce page with a ton of product listings that just happen to contain the word (for example its a page listing different types of boots and thusly the word boot appears a bunch of times) I think google is smart enough to figure out whats going on there and not ding you for it.
Hope that helps.
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