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One of the cool features of the Opera web browser is its keyword functionality. While not exclusive to Opera, it provides users with options to assign keywords to bookmarks or search engines. Keywords basically speed up access to bookmarks and services at their core level. Once mapped to a bookmark, it can be opened by entering the keyword into Opera’s address bar. While that’s interesting in itself, it does not really provide much of an advantage nowadays as browser’s display suggestions once you start typing in the address bar.

What makes the feature great is its advanced feature set. One of the features in this regard is the option to map keywords to search engines. This can then be used to run a search on that engine by simply entering the keyword followed by the search term into Opera’s address bar. Lets take a look at how this is done.

Open the search engine that you want to use in this way and locate the search form on the page. We are using my favorite DuckDuckGo for this. Right-click the search form and select Create Search from the context menu. You will see a configuration menu just like the one below. Opera has filled out all the relevant fields automatically, except for the keyword field that you need to configure yourself.

You can enter one or multiple characters in the keyword field, and will be reminded by the browser if a keyword is already taken. A click on ok completes the process. You can from that moment on search on the search engine by entering the keyword followed by the search term (in this case d ghacks to search on DuckDuckgo for ghacks).

This in itself is pretty useful, but it gets better, as you can also use this method for other types of forms. You can for instance configure a keyword for Google Translate’s translate a page feature, a dictionary lookup using Leo’s search engine, a whois request to find out more about a domain name you enter, or a torrent search on your favorite torrent indexing site.

You use the same method in all cases. For Google Translate, you would visit the website and configure the search accordingly by selecting the output language that you want the pages to be translated to.  You then add the search to Opera with a right-click in the form on the page and the selection of Create Search from the context menu. Assign the keyword, and translate web pages automatically by adding the keyword to the address bar, e.g. gt http://www.ghacks.net/ if you want this site to be translated into a different language. (thanks to dXm99 for the tip)

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Saturday May 19, 2012 –
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One of the cool features of the Opera web browser is its keyword functionality. While not exclusive to Opera, it provides users with options to assign keywords to bookmarks or search engines. Keywords basically speed up access to bookmarks and services at their core level. Once mapped to a bookmark, it can be opened by entering the keyword into Opera’s address bar. While that’s interesting in itself, it does not really provide much of an advantage nowadays as browser’s display suggestions once you start typing in the address bar.

What makes the feature great is its advanced feature set. One of the features in this regard is the option to map keywords to search engines. This can then be used to run a search on that engine by simply entering the keyword followed by the search term into Opera’s address bar. Lets take a look at how this is done.

Open the search engine that you want to use in this way and locate the search form on the page. We are using my favorite DuckDuckGo for this. Right-click the search form and select Create Search from the context menu. You will see a configuration menu just like the one below. Opera has filled out all the relevant fields automatically, except for the keyword field that you need to configure yourself.

You can enter one or multiple characters in the keyword field, and will be reminded by the browser if a keyword is already taken. A click on ok completes the process. You can from that moment on search on the search engine by entering the keyword followed by the search term (in this case d ghacks to search on DuckDuckgo for ghacks).

This in itself is pretty useful, but it gets better, as you can also use this method for other types of forms. You can for instance configure a keyword for Google Translate’s translate a page feature, a dictionary lookup using Leo’s search engine, a whois request to find out more about a domain name you enter, or a torrent search on your favorite torrent indexing site.

You use the same method in all cases. For Google Translate, you would visit the website and configure the search accordingly by selecting the output language that you want the pages to be translated to.  You then add the search to Opera with a right-click in the form on the page and the selection of Create Search from the context menu. Assign the keyword, and translate web pages automatically by adding the keyword to the address bar, e.g. gt http://www.ghacks.net/ if you want this site to be translated into a different language. (thanks to dXm99 for the tip)

Related Articles:

Use Keywords to search faster in Firefox
Search And Access Sites Faster With Keywords
Add Ghacks Search To Firefox And Opera
Should Search Engines censor certain keywords ?
How To Add Google Encrypted Search Engine To Firefox, Opera, Chrome And Internet Explorer

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Improving the keyword density on your website is one of the fastest and simplest ways to increase your site’s visibility in the search engine results pages. To better explain this reasoning, we will refer to a “keyword” as a word that your typical web surfer will input in the search box when searching for specific information about a product or service.

The true definition of keyword density is the ratio of the word that is being searched for, ie the keyword, against the total number of words appearing on a given web page. If your keyword occurs only once or twice in a page of 500 or more words, obviously it has a lower keyword density than a keyword that would occur six or seven times in a page of similar length.

Though the words and the term “keyword density” may be somewhat new and foreign to you, keyword density is actually quite simple to understand. First, a clear understanding of the word “keyword” is important. Keywords are the words that are used to describe and signify a topic. It is likely that you have already entered keywords countless times in your internet searches. If you are an avid Yankees fan and you want to find out the latest team news, you would probably start by entering “Yankees” in a search engine box. If you want to know the schedule of the games, you might enter “Yankees schedule.” If you want to know the home run history of Mickey Mantle, you might simply enter “Mickey Mantle,” or “Mickey Mantle home runs.” The keyword is simply the word that identifies and represents that which you are seeking in the internet. The word, words or terms that best represents the object of your search are most likely to bring up the answers in the resulting search engine results page (SERP).

Keyword density is the percentage of the number of times a particular keyword or keyword phrase is used in comparison to the total amount of words in the article, page or site. If your website is devoted to selling your product, custom acoustic guitars, the SEO-savvy writer would insert the relevant keyword phrase “custom acoustic guitars” a certain number of times in the article, site or page. What percentage, you ask? It varies. One popular school of thought suggests 2.5 — 7 percent. Others say to keep it less than 5 percent. Others insist that the keyword density should not exceed 2 — 3 percent. There is no final, decisive answer, as the internet is constantly changing.

Keywords are the most important SEO element for every search engine, they are what search strings are matched against. Choosing the right keywords to optimize for is thus the first and most crucial step to a successful SEO campaign. If you fail on this very first step, the road ahead is very bumpy and most likely you will only waste your time and money. There are many ways to determine which keywords to optimize for and usually the final list of them is made after a careful analysis of what the online population is searching for, which keywords have your competitors chosen and above all – which are the keywords that you feel describe your site best.

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