These search engine optimization companies that tell their consumers that resubmissions work also present other ridiculous claims:

- “We will submit you to 1000’s of search engines” - This list always ends up including Google, Google Canada, Google Germany and Google for every country they have a site for as well as Yahoo, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo Australia, etc. The problem here is that every Google site uses same Google database and every Yahoo sites uses same Yahoo database. Don’t believe me? Go to google.com and look at very bottom of page beside their copyright. It says searching 8 billion + pages. Now go to google.de, google.ca, google.com.au, google.co.uk and look in same place, do you notice something? It’s same number! It’s same database!

- “Search Engines only index pages that you submit to them” - What they’re saying here is that any other pages of your site won’t be indexed unless you submit each of them individually. Wrong again! Don’t believe me? Go to yahoo.com and type in “www.abalone.ca” We only submitted our index page when we first started our business. Just one page (index.html), once. Look how many pages they have put in their database.

Each one of Frequency Counters above has different uses and qualifications. The Writewords counter has two flavors: word and phrase count. The Web4Future counter is Web based or a standalone download.

How to use them:

Copy and paste content of web page in question and see what top word frequencies are. You can eliminate most articles and modifiers and concentrate on pure words. As an example: If your web page is about red and blue widgets, words "red/blue/widgets" should have highest frequency.

A Word of Caution About Writing Content:

Use Frequency Counters AFTER you write web page content. Don't allow word frequency to get in way of your natural writing style. Do NOT attempt to hit a certain frequency percentage; you'll be penalized by many Search Engines for too much keyword usage.

In Closing

Though word Frequency Counters are good tools for a quick check, nothing compares to laser-focused writing for good Meta Tags information. Let your writing flow naturally and stay concentrated on your subject keywords. If you do that, you'll find it easy to weave your keywords into your content and Meta Tags.

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by Francisco Aloy

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