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Keyword Placement: Where Should You Put Your Keywords?

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You’ve spent countless hours searching for the best keywords to target for your business and you have a huge list of high-volume, low-competition keywords that are there for the taking. But what now? Where should you put your keywords on your website in order to rank for them?

In this article you’ll learn everything you need to know about keyword placement.

You’ll discover where – and more importantly, how – to insert your target keywords into your content. You’ll learn where to use primary and secondary keywords – and where not to use them. And you’ll be able to see how successful websites have used these strategies to boost their search engine visibility.

Ready to learn how to optimise your web pages for your target keywords? Let’s go!

Do keywords still matter for SEO?

Does keyword placement matter?

Where to place your keywords

URL

Domain

Subdomain

Path

Page title

Meta description

Main heading

Subheadings

Body copy

Formatted text

Image alt text

Filenames

Categories and tags

Primary navigation

Using primary and secondary keywords

Where to place primary and secondary keywords

Primary keywords

  • URL
  • Page title
  • Meta description
  • Main heading
  • Body copy
  • Formatted text
  • Image alt text
  • Filenames
  • Inbound links
  • Internal links
  • Categories
  • Primary navigation
  • Breadcrumb navigation

Secondary keywords

  • Subheadings
  • Body copy
  • Image alt text
  • Outbound links
  • Tags

Where not to place your keywords

Benefits of optimised keyword placement

Examples of well-optimised pages

Make sure your content is useful

Keyword optimisation process

Keyword placement checklist

Keyword placement tracking template

Auditing keyword usage