{"id":509,"date":"2020-01-06T16:35:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowriter.co\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2020-01-06T16:35:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:35:59","slug":"how-many-times-should-i-use-a-keyword-in-a-blog-post-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowriter.co\/blog\/how-many-times-should-i-use-a-keyword-in-a-blog-post-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"How many times should I use a keyword in a blog post in 2020?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to figure out how many times to use a keyword in an article isn\u2019t always easy.<\/p>\n<p>Use a keyword too frequently and your search rankings will fall. The same is true if you don\u2019t use a keyword enough.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, your visibility will suffer.<\/p>\n<p>Inserting keywords into your content requires careful balance. The general rule is to keep it to 5 times in a standard post.<\/p>\n<h2>Why Keyword Stuffing Can Hurt You<\/h2>\n<p>Did you know that <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/66358?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google will penalize<\/a> you for \u201ckeyword stuffing\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Keyword stuffing is using the keyword repeatedly throughout the content. Basically, using the same word so often that your original content does not read as \u201cnatural prose\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When you do overuse a keyword, Google will lower your rankings so your post is not as visible as you might like.<\/p>\n<p>Lower rankings equates to fewer visitors to your site and this means a loss in potential revenue.<\/p>\n<h2>Avoiding Keyword Stuffing<\/h2>\n<p>Keyword stuffing can be easily avoided.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth your time to learn how. If you are overstuffing your content with keywords, you lessen the chances of being ranked at the top of a Google search. This makes it harder for potential customers to read your content.<\/p>\n<p>Avoiding keyword stuffing isn\u2019t hard.<\/p>\n<p>You just need to create content that meets the needs of your target audience.<\/p>\n<p>Keywords should be included within the context of the post, without disrupting the post\u2019s flow.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, include your keywords, generally around 5 per post. Make sure that they read naturally.<\/p>\n<h2>Keywords And SEO<\/h2>\n<p>SEO is an important part of content writing. You don\u2019t want to overload the post but you also don\u2019t want to have too few.<\/p>\n<p>It is a delicate balance.<\/p>\n<p>Just remember, you want the post to read naturally. You don\u2019t want excess keywords cluttering up the post to the point where readers miss the idea you are trying to get across.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to figure out how many times to use a keyword in an article isn\u2019t always easy. Use a keyword too frequently and your search rankings will fall. The same<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/prowriter.co\/blog\/how-many-times-should-i-use-a-keyword-in-a-blog-post-in-2020\/\" class=\"exp-read-more exp-read-more-underlined\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[11,46,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prowriter.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prowriter.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prowriter.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prowriter.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prowriter.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prowriter.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/prowriter.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prowriter.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prowriter.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prowriter.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prowriter.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}