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Posted by to On-Page / Site Optimization   I've read more
beginner SEO guides than I can count, never really being able to
convince myself that I'm not a beginner anymore. One thing that
appears in a lot of these guides and lists of "SEO Facts" online
is the fact that one shouldn't optimize a page for more than a
certain number of terms. This usually ranges between one and
three. I agree with this if you have free reign to optimize the
entire site. Unfortunately, the company I work for had a
precedent of selling "homepage optimization" before I began
working here and that was pretty much all that was offered, and
all that the sales ladies were used to selling. That sounds bad,
I know, but it's a web services company that deals primarily
with building sites and offering hosting and advertising. SEO
was an afterthought, but I'm working to correct that.  So, since
I've mostly been limited to optimizing homepages, I just wanted
to say that there is not