How To Calculate Keyword Density

[hyderkhan]

Hopefully an easy question....

What is the correct way to calculate keyword density?

Let's say I have a 300 word article, and I want to achieve a 3% keyword density of the 3-word phrase "good old days". How many times should the phrase "good old days" appear in the article to achieve 3% density?

I'm confused as to exactly how this is calculated. I would like to know what is the official way how to determine this by hand without using any keyword tools.

Note: Please don't reply with "keyword density doesn't matter". I'm not asking whether or not to write for keyword density. I want to know how to calculate it.

Thanks everyone!

[Crew Chief]

Originally Posted by hyderkhan

Note: Please don't reply with "keyword density doesn't matter". I'm not asking whether or not to write for keyword density. I want to know how to calculate it.

Thanks everyone!

1 keyword phrase per 100 words is 1%
Put the same keyword phrase in 100 words twice and your KD is 2%
Put the same keyword phrase in 100 words three times and your KD is 3%

So forth and so on...

Giles, the Crew Chief

[donhx]

You may find this Wikipedia entry helpful:

Keyword density - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[ursimrankhanna]

Hi,

Yeah this way of checking keyword density in keywords is right. we mostly used 2-3 time a single keyword in 300 words phrase.

[socialbookmark]

Calculate it like this:
a=Your target keywords
b=all keyword in your text
Keyword density= a/b
For example if you want to reach 3% density while all of your text has 300 words, You should repeat your keyword 9 times in the text.

[SGdarling]

thank you for the tips.

[softech]

you can put 1 keyword on per 100 words other read this article on wikipedia about keyword density

[scott g]

First, go download and install Mozilla Firefox. Then do a search for "SEOQuake plugin" for Firefox - install and restart Firefox. Go to any web page. Click the "SQ" badge in the lower right corner of the status bar to turn SEOQuake on. Right-click on the lit up badge to make sure "SEO Toolbar" is checked. Hit F5 to refresh the webpage. On the toolbar click on "density."

Voila. Step-by-step!

CHEERS!

[rohnsmith]

I think we should not count the keyword density including title , keywords and meta description tag.Just focus keyword density on the content part or we can say body part...

[scott g]

Originally Posted by rohnsmith

I think we should not count the keyword density including title , keywords and meta description tag.Just focus keyword density on the content part or we can say body part...

If we're talking about Articles and Articles only, I agree. But if we're talking about how search engines look at our webpages, hen I completely 100% disagree

[ambalaldarji]

Keyword Density Calculation: Divide the number of times you used the keyword/keyword phrase in the article with the total number of words in the article. After getting the result, multiply it by 100. 100 is the constant number. You will always multiply the result by dividing the number of times you used the keyword or the keyword phrase and the number of words in the article by 100.

After doing all the steps indicated above, you should have the percentage of keyword density in the article that you made.