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Using keywords naturally

Put the words your audience uses where they matter, then write for people. Keyword density targets are folklore, and stuffing breaks Google's spam policies.

Time
14 min
Level
beginner
Reviewed
5 November 2026

After this lesson you can

  • Place the main topic in the places that matter most.
  • Cover a topic with related terms and real answers, not repetition.
  • Recognise keyword stuffing in your own writing.

Search engines match pages to queries partly through the words on the page. Google's own explanation of ranking mentions the most basic signal: whether the content contains the keywords of the search, in headings or in the text. That is the whole basis of "keyword optimisation", and it is easy to overdo.

Where the topic belongs

  1. Title: leading with the topic, as in the previous lessons.
  2. Main heading: consistent with the title.
  3. Opening text: say what the page is about in the first lines.
  4. Subheadings, where it fits naturally.
  5. Image alt text and link anchor text, where they genuinely describe the image or the link target.

After that, write for the reader. If the page covers the topic well, related words, synonyms and specific terms appear naturally.

Cover the topic, not the word

A page that ranks well usually answers the questions around its topic. For a laptop repair page, that means:

  • Which faults you fix, and which you do not.
  • Typical prices, or how pricing works.
  • How long repairs take.
  • Guarantee, brands, data safety.
  • How to get the laptop to you.

Each of these brings in natural vocabulary, such as "ekrano keitimas", "baterija", "diagnostika" and "garantija". It also gives searchers with long-tail queries a reason to land on the page.

Keyword stuffing

Warning signs in your own text:

  • The same phrase in every sentence of a paragraph.
  • Awkward grammar to keep an exact keyword, such as "remontas Šiauliai pigiai" inside a sentence.
  • A footer or sidebar listing many towns or keyword variants.
  • Text that reads as if written for a machine. Read it aloud, and if it sounds odd, rewrite it.

For Lithuanian texts

Write grammatically correct Lithuanian with diacritics, and inflect words as the sentence requires. Searchers use different forms anyway, and Google connects close variants. Forcing the nominative form everywhere to match a keyword tool makes the text worse and gains nothing documented.

Practice

Read the lesson, pass the quiz and do the exercise to complete it.

Knowledge check

4 questions. Get at least 4 right to pass.

  1. 1. What keyword density should a page aim for?
  2. 2. Which is keyword stuffing according to Google's spam policies?
  3. 3. Where does the main topic most clearly belong?
  4. 4. Google's systems understand synonyms. What does that mean for writing?

Exercise: Check one page for natural keyword use

Take one mapped page and its topic from your keyword map. Check whether the main topic appears in the title, the main heading and the first paragraph. Then read the page aloud and mark any sentence that only exists for keywords. Rewrite those sentences, and add a section answering one real customer question the page does not answer yet.

Deliverable: A short note in the page's notes listing where the topic appears, the sentences you rewrote, and the new section's heading.

Check your work honestly against each point
Write up your work and meet every point to finish.

Sources

Checked against these sources on 5 November 2026. Next review by 5 May 2027.

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