Hi
Have a confusing point :

1 -What is moer important to take into account : average optimization rate or per keyword optimization ?
2--My page shows average optimization rate of 56% -- optimization rate for a keyword shows about 65% while competing site in third place shows 85%.So far is ok.

But when I run the competing site through wsa for analysis . this is the result I get(estimates--writing off-hand)

optimization rate : 24%
keywords optimization rate for the same keyword as my page : 38%

My question is : why the keyword optimization rate shows 85% in my page analysis but shows a lot lesser in competitor's site at 24%--that's a big difference.

This scenario means I have to analyze my competitor's pages as well to get a clearer picture to optimize my page? That would mean putting more time to work on that.

3-- I read in other threads that keywords in meta keywords are not important-----then why are we asked to supply keywords to wsa to analyze a page? How to get keywords for pages that don't show meta keywords in their source code ?

thks

Well, the optimization rate for your main keyword would matter most



If your competitors' site is #3 then it means that it is compared to sites number 1-11 (the site itself gets omitted). So basically when a site is compared to sites ranking lower and probably optimized worse it naturally will get a low score itself - simply because WebSite Auditor is relying on relative analysis.



Although it is useful to pay attention to the percentage and score in your project reports, you should analyze your competitors' page elements. Very often it makes sense to find a competitor website whose content has the highest keyword density and to try to keep to the proportions used in its page elements.

If you are interested to read discussions of similar concerns, please check out the following topics of our SEO forum:

when-100-may-not-be-the-objective-t1509.html

higher-optimization-rate-better-ranked-t1693.html

If you need help optimizing a particular page element, please let us know and we will do our best to help your out.



I'm not quite sure what you mean. Yes, meta keywords are not used for rankings in Google anymore, but they should still be present on the page and reflect the most frequent keywords on a page, the ones you are for.

If your competitors' site is #3 then it means that it is compared to sites number 1-11 (the site itself gets omitted). So basically when a site is compared to sites ranking lower and probably optimized worse it naturally will get a low score itself - simply because WebSite Auditor is relying on relative analysis.[/quote]


Maybe the site ranked better for pages optimized poorly---but why does it show 85% in my site analysis but 25% when competing site is run through wsa ?


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