How much is it acceptable to sacrifice grammar for keyword placement
 

In trying to create SEO friendly blog posts with optimal keyword density is it acceptable degrade the grammatical construction of the narrative a little in order to optimize keyword density?

And how far can a person go with this?

I mean, I assume we use text-rich blog posts mainly to rank for our keywords, in an adult blog its mainly the photos that sell the sites we promote - right?

So if the text comes off a little "english as a second language" sounding just because I needed to cram a keyword into place without having to rewrite the whole thing, is that going to cause major damage to my sales?

What do you guys think?

If you allow yourself to let it go to shit and cut corners it will not get better. I think practice makes perfect. At first it may seem like just shoving keyword in is what needs to be done but after writing enough it will come naturally.

In a word, maybe. :winkwink: For instance, I wont accept or produce content that doesn't sound "natural" and intelligent, however I provide mainstream SEO for the most part and thus, spammy worthless pages are stupid on a house painters site. Now by contrast, I see lots of SEOs run spammy pages (and hundreds of them ugh) in an attempt to be relevant in other industries.

My best advice: Focus on the market and concentrate on the end user experience. If you wouldn't stick around, neither will porngoers, and you won't convert.

Its not that hard and only takes a little practice.

Yeah, I think my main issue stems from the fact that I did absolutely no keyword research before I launched the site.

Now I did some after the fact and realized that I have no ranking whatsoever for anything and looking over my content, no reason to have any. So I am trying to play catch-up and go back and do some keyword placement in hopes of ranking for SOMETHING and the results seem a little awkward.