keyword phrases or keywords

[iknowalttl]

Being the newbie that I am :agrin: , I wanted opinions on which works best... keyword phrases or just keywords... I never had to worry about that in the past... My website experience has always been the free hosted one page, one place to click type of sites which served to purpose well in it's time. Now it on to legit sites for me.

-Mike

[iknowalttl]

Is there even a difference worth mentioning? I have read articles recommending one or the other but haven't found any info whether one is better than the other or any comparison fo the two.

[Inabon]

I usually play them by keywords by breaking down phrases in to keywords not repeating them.

however the way SEs are working now you are better off working a nice readable html layout with keywords combined in phrases.

[iknowalttl]

What is best for a separator... is just a space suficient? does this allow phrases and keywords to be picked up and also in limiting the number of characters used? Can you repeat a word to make an extra phrase and how many times before you get penalized?