When I take on a new site, I like to place a lot of the keyword myself into the different areas such as Title Tags, META Keyword Tags (although not used by search engines so much these days), META Description, ALT Tags, H1 text and also keywords in inner page names. Once place in which I am not so happy about placing keywords is in the actual content of the page. I like to ask the client to help me when creating text for the web pages.
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