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33 percentage of their page copy composed of a few keyword phrases. Thus, there is no magical page copy length that is best for all search engines. The uniqueness of page content is far more important than the length. Page copy has three purposes above all others: • To be unique enough to get indexed and ranked in the search result • To create content that people find interesting enough to want to link to • To convert site visitors into subscribers, buyers, or people who click on ads Not every page is going to make sales or be compelling enough to link to, but if, in aggregate, many of your pages are of high-quality over time, it will help boost the rankings of nearly every page on your site. Keyword Density, Term Frequency & Term Weight Term Frequency (TF) is a weighted measure of how often a term appears in a document. Terms that occur frequently within a document are thought to be some of the more important terms of that document. If a word appears in every (or almost every) document, then it tells you little about how to discern value between documents. Words that appear frequently will have little to no discrimination value, which is why many search engines ignore common stop words (like the, and, and or). Rare terms, which only appear in a few or limited number of documents, have a much higher signal-to-noise ratio. They are much more likely to tell you what a document is about. Inverse Document Frequency (IDF) can be used to further discriminate the value of term frequency to account for how common terms are across a corpus of documents. Terms that are in a limited number of documents will likely tell you more about those documents than terms that are scattered throughout many documents. When people measure keyword density, they are generally missing some other important factors in information retrieval such as IDF, index normalization, word proximity, and how search engines account for the various element types. (Is the term bolded, in a header, or in a link?) Search engines may also use technologies like latent semantic indexing to mathematically model the concepts of related pages. Google is scanning millions of books from university libraries. As much as that process is about helping people find information, it is also used to help Google understand linguistic patterns. If you artificially write a page stuffed with one keyword or keyword phrase without adding many of the phrases that occur in similar natural documents you may not