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Focus Keyword
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Hi everyone!
I am pretty new to SEO so all the help would be great.
Does every webpage on our website need a focus keyword for example like the about us page.
We have webpages for every location in the UK - Would it be helpful if the location webpages had a focus keyword also?
Just to note that I am using Yoast on Wordpress.
Many thanks,
Aqib -
Yes, each page on your website should have a focus keyword...just like when you are communicating about a topic in real life. Would you bounce around between basketball, baseball and football when you are in the middle of a conversation about the NBA all star game? Probably not.
When building content for specific keywords per page, I enjoy utilizing SEO quake for google chrome. Its keyword diagnosis and density tool, in my opinion, is far superior to Yoast. It helps identify on page standards and well as word count and density of single keywords and phrase keywords. Plus, its free.
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The focus keyword is the keyword you would like to have a particular page optimised for. Yoast uses it to measure, rate and give you hints regarding your efforts to optimise for exactly that keyword on that particular page.
No not every webpage needs a focus keyword. There are webpages you probably simply don't care about because they don't need to be keyword optimised at all, e.g. checkout pages, privacy policy page, general terms and conditions page.
...We have webpages for every location in the UK - Would it be helpful if the location webpages had a focus keyword also?
Most likely yes. Optimise it the way your customer would search locally for your products/services: keyword for e.g. product/service + location in the UK
Here is an good Moz article about enhancing local landingpages (i.e. pages for different locations) I think is rather useful too: https://moz.com/blog/overcoming-your-fear-of-local-landing-pages
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