WebProWorld - View Single Post - Can You Combine Writing Naturally and SEO Copywriting?

**mjtaylor** · #5 (**permalink**) 09-14-2007, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by craigmn3

I took your post, and made a web page using your post title as both the title and the meta description. This was an example of natural writting. Then I ran it through an SEO tool.

Title and Meta Description was 62% relevant

your top ten keywords in density was:

once - 7 - 1.90% - (G,Y,M)
keywords - 5 - 1.36% - (G,Y,M)
copy - 5 - 1.36% - (G,Y,M)
keyword - 5 - 1.36% - (G,Y,M)
terms - 4 - 1.09% - (G,Y,M)
search - 4 - 1.09% - (G,Y,M)
naturally - 4 - 1.09% - (G,Y,M)
engines - 4 - 1.09% - (G,Y,M)
put - 3 - 0.82% - (G,Y,M)
related - 3 - 0.82% - (G,Y,M)

Your top 5, 2 word Phrases

search engines - 4 - 1.09% - (G,Y,M)
related terms - 3 - 0.82% - (G,Y,M)
keyword once - 3 - 0.82% - (G,Y,M)
writing naturally - 2 - 0.54% - (G,Y,M)
sub headings - 2 - 0.54% - (G,Y,M)

If you wanted this post to be searched via your subject of natural writing for SEO you can see that this won't produce much.

So I think the previous poster had the answer. Write it naturally, wash it through a few SEO tools and tweek it. Good web page design has always been a balancing act between the Browser and the Search Engines, you have to placate both to succeed

Well, thanks, Craig, ... though this wasn't written this with any intention to have the post found by any search query. If I cared about a keyword term, it would be seo copywriting, but my intention was to create a thread that might be useful to members who are interested in writing naturally *and* optimizing the copy on their own sites. (Moderators are encouraged to create threads, so I searched around for something I know how to write about, naturally.

and copywriting is one of my specialties, and so a thread was born.)

However, to follow your logic all the way through, we will have to wait and see if there are any more posts ... and you would also need to take into account the other elements on *this* page ... including the breadcrumb links from search engines > to the SEO Forum and now including your post *and* my quote of it ... and this one ...

Of course, that assumes that density is really important. A recent thread on that keyword density raised doubts in my mind, at least, about the value of KW analysis. But I am convinced that copy in a context of other related terms increases the relevance of the content.

Tht's the larger picture - keyword density might have been low but this thread had now has more stems & related terms for writing, such as write, written, created - as well as for SEO.

Maybe you should run the numbers on this page *now* and see where the search terms are with the additional posts. We can always optimize further.

[quote]noel_x99

Once you've written it, read it out loud. If it sounds awkward or stuffed, you'll hear it. [quote]

Excellent point, Noel. I wish I had written that!

Cheers, MJ