Keywords - limit?

Hi,

My site is:
http://www.expolands.com/

I want to find out what the search keyword limit is for the home page? Ive seen a lot of threads on search optimisation - mainly concentrating on external links to your website and meta tags.

However I havent come across anything on the keyword limit, a ratio above which search engines such as Google and Yahoo will reject a site based on repetetive keywords.

Please see the above URL - my keywords/phrases are "land" and "sri lanka" , and also "real estate" with less importance. I'm worried I have TOO many "land" and "Sri Lanka" words all over - including the image "alt" tags.

Awaiting any kind of help and advice on this,
Thanks a BILLION,
Rish

ive heard you should try and make it 30 or less
whether this is the best or not i dont know

Hi jus thought I would say none of your alt tags are appearing so make sure you have a look at sorting them out.

I think you only have land written 6 times which I think is reasonable. I am signed up with bcentral who give you advice for optimisation and they recommend no more than 2-3 keywords per image, as well as also describing the image too and they also say no more than a brief sentence or 2 to describe the image.

Other things they mention are keywords in hyperlinks if possible and the use of heading e.g. <h1> tags.

Thanks a lot for both your replies!

bhutz my alt tags are working on my browser IE 6 and netscape 7.1 .. but I dont have an alt tag on the main picture. The buttons, title, etc. all have alt tags - pls tell me - what browser r u using?

Thanks a lot again for all the advice!

I am using Mozilla firefox and forgot that alt tags don't appear like they do on IE, I right clicked and checked image properties and saw the alt tags that way

Alt tags are supposed to be text descriptions of your images. Your site is using them correctly on your nav buttons, but not on the images or the logo. From the W3C:

The generic rule for the content of the alt attribute is: use text that fulfills the same function as the image.

Some more specific rules:

• if the image is simply decorated text , put the text in the alt attribute
• if the image is used to create bullets in a list, a horizontal line, or other similar decoration, it is fine to have an empty alt attribute (e.g., alt=""), but it is better to use things like list-style-image in CSS
• if the image presents a lot of important information, try to summarize it in a short line for the alt attribute and add a longdesc link to a more detailed description The generic rule for the content of the alt attribute is: use text that fulfills the same function as the image.
  
  Some more specific rules:
  
  • if the image is simply decorated text , put the text in the alt attribute
  • if the image is used to create bullets in a list, a horizontal line, or other similar decoration, it is fine to have an empty alt attribute (e.g., alt=""), but it is better to use things like list-style-image in CSS
  • if the image presents a lot of important information, try to summarize it in a short line for the alt attribute and add a longdesc link to a more detailed description