Can You Optimize One Article For Multiple Keywords?

The question arises from time to time, “Can you optimize one article for multiple keywords?” The answer, of course, is yes. You can.

But understand that you are better off optimizing your articles for two keywords and no more. You don’t want your articles watered down with useless keywords. At some point you’ll run into a diseconomies of scale on optimization.

We recommend you choose a primary keyword and a secondary keyword. Make sure that your primary keyword appears first in your article title and your article. Also make sure that it appears more often. But do include your secondary keyword in the article title and article body. This technique will give you plenty of optimization fire power as the search engines now use semantic technology, which looks at context to determine important keywords. When you offer two specific keyword phrases then you are telling the search engines that you have important information about a specific niche. This is a powerful way to market yourself through articles.