Should Body Keywords Be Same As Meta Keywords?

[Licker4U]

How important is it for the meta keywords to be used on a page? Suppose I have this:

<META name="keywords" CONTENT="mature, granny, older">

should I use those exact words on the page? I've heard that I should (and do) but no more than three times on the page for each word.

Also, what is the optimum number of keywords that should be put in the META keywords?

[virgohippy]

All my vastly limited experience and hugely neglected research says keywords should be exactly what is in body text, or just ignored.

As for specific count in body text that seems like a bad rumor to me. I've had far more success looking at ratios instead.

If you build a page with 50 total words then every word is potentially 2% or more of the body content. Three repetitions of any one word creates a 6% keyword saturation.

If, instead, the page has 1000 words three repeitions is only 0.3% which seems very conservative, IMO.

[Licker4U]

Originally Posted by virgohippy

If, instead, the page has 1000 words three repeitions is only 0.3% which seems very conservative, IMO.

Well, I was referring to a typical free site page which rarely gets to 1000 words. I'm sure there is a magic number of keywords/total text that if you go over, SE's (Gaggle) might consider the page to be spam. And if that's the case I'm sure the algorithm gets changed so no one can get an advantage by figuring out what that magic number is.

I just counted the words on my latest index page. 208 actual words, not counting recips which are full of words. Let's say, including words in recips I have 400 words on an index page. Any opinions on how many times a keyword can be repeated without Google thinking I'm spamming?

[RB]

i think it is possible to use with but it could be not very convinent for bot. Keyword should be like ib text body and now the same. I think.

[MightyMidget]

RB: thanks, that makes a lot of sense.

[Licker4U]

Originally Posted by MightyMidget

RB: thanks, that makes a lot of sense.

Ditto

[virgohippy]

Originally Posted by Licker4U

Any opinions on how many times a keyword can be repeated without Google thinking I'm spamming?

I suspect this is influenced (or at least marginalized) by other factors, like back link quality/quantity.

Personally, I take a conservative approach - I remove keywords more often then I add them. I have recieved Google traffic on pages with a low density (<1%) so it's not worth pushing IMO.

I'd rather not risk losing all my chips at once even if the door fee is a bit higher.

[Maj. Stress]

Licker you might find it easier to just build the page and add the kw's you are focusing on to the meta kw description.

[LowryBigwood]

Originally Posted by Licker4U

Any opinions on how many times a keyword can be repeated without Google thinking I'm spamming?

I am of the belief that there are filters and penalties that can be tripped by keyword stuffing (spamming), but I doubt there is a set number of times you can repeat a kw. I would guess there are a number of factors that would go into Google thinking you are spamming besides an exact number of times the kw is repeated. Just my .02.