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Jeremy Schoemaker’s (aka: ShoeMoney) disclaimer page reads:

“I am not a lawyer or an accountant. Any legal or financial advice I give is my opinion based on my experience. Always seek the advice of a professional before acting on something that I might say.

You should assume everything written on this blog is a lie. You should assume I have motivation for linking to everything on this page and will benefit from it somehow. You should assume I am no better then you are and your opinion has just as much weight as mine. You should question everything. You should come up with your own thoughts and opinions and not trust some stupid blogger.

-Jeremy Schoemaker”

Honest, succinct and directly to the point, ShoeMoney wins today’s unofficial contest for the most creative short-form writing.

(hat tip to Dave Davies who IM’ed the link to me)

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Metamend has developed a Tag-Cloud Keyword Density Analyzer available on the Metamend SEO tool page. The tool provides an instant glance at the number of times words appear on a page, which is important information for SEOs.

On-page content is the ultimate and deciding factor when it comes to achieving strong search engine rankings. Useful content attracts human-traffic and good links. When presented in ways search engines want to read it, that content wins repeated spider traffic.

Affecting how and where search engines see and perceive page or site content is one of the basic descriptions of a SEO’s job. Knowing the number of times a specific word or grouping of words appears on a page and where they appear in the code is pretty critical for optimizers entering into and maintaining a SEO campaign.

Keyword Density Analysis (KDA) measures the number of times a word or phrase appears on each page of a site as a percentage of all words. It also measures how often specific words appear in critical areas of the page such as titles, meta description, visible page content, anchor text (link-text), image alt-text, heading tags, or otherwise accentuated. Generally, keywords should be placed in each of these areas.

Monday October 1 started cold and overcast with blustery winds and a constant threat of rain, a typical autumn day in the Pacific Northwest. About 150 search engine optimizers gathered in a stately lecture theatre at the University of Washington’s Kane Hall to hear a six hour lecture from SEOmoz’s Rand Fishkin. Arguably the most famous SEO in the world, Rand kept his audience entertained through the eight unique segments of the session.

This post is the first part of what is turning out to be a much longer narrative than I expected. A lot can be packed into a day and virtually everyone who came to Seattle this week worked for 20 odd hours Monday, seven of which were spent in the lecture hall. (Please see this Flickr page for all photos from the event. Links in the article lead to specific photos)