Keyword density

[joemayerich]

Does it really make much difference to Google if articles have different keyword density of say 2%, 2.5% or 3%? Does anyone have any experiences where the differences in percentages have made a difference for you and your site? What is the best recommended percentage to go by if you are trying to climb the ranking for a blog site?

[blillard]

It is not a good idea to keyword stuff. Just write your content naturally and you be fine. A rule of thumb is to add your keyword once every 100 words.

[Webkingseo]

Well it will effect.... Keyword density always should be between 2.4-4 %.... Always remember if you are going to write a post then put your keyword in a natural sentence and not more than 4 times in per 100 words.... If you repeat your keyword many times then firstly whenever a user read it, it makes an bad impression on him due to repeatations.... second whenever a spider sees a post it checks the keyword density... so be careful my friend....

[Shanks1]

I think Ezine has a keyword density limit of 4%.. I agree with above, the more natural and quality the content the better it will be for your site in Google's eye's..

Keyword stuffing looks very bad.

[Ricky Dawn]

No more then 5%, I usually aim for 4% with my main keyword but then use related keywords with a density of 1% - 2%, this works very well.

In total I will have 4 keywords 1 main keyword and 3 related keywords.

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by Webkingseo

Keyword density always should be between 2.4-4 %....

You've clearly never got an article into EZA, then (or even got as far as getting one in front of an editor): this is completely wrong ...

Originally Posted by Shanks1

I think Ezine has a keyword density limit of 4%.

It has a keyword density limit of 2%.

And that's too high, if anything.

Seriously, people: EZA makes all its decisions according to what Google likes/dislikes, because that's how they make their living. Do you think, maybe, possibly, that if their absolute limit for automated rejection is 2%, maybe yours should be, too?

Anything over 2% gets you an automated rejection by the software without even getting in front of a human editor. Wisely, they won't even waste their time looking at anything with keyword density over 2% because they know it'll be keyword-stuffed garbage and unreadably clunky and hated by Google, too (which is their real "determining factor").

Originally Posted by joemayerich

Does it really make much difference to Google if articles have different keyword density of say 2%, 2.5% or 3%?

Who cares (apart from EZA)? It makes a difference to readers, and that's what matters: if people can't read your articles, if they don't want to share your content with others and backlink to it because they enjoyed it and know that others will, it's not worth having, is it?

Search engines don't buy the products I'm promoting. People do.

I don't count keywords, and I urge others to write for readers and forget keyword density. Just count in your next few articles and make sure your keyword density is under 1% (which it will be, if you write for people) and then forget about them and stop counting. That way, you'll earn more money.

[Richard Van]

Reading through this I was amazed to read all this 2.4 to 4% stuff. How on Earth did "Webkingseo" come up with the 2.4?

How the heck do you get a keyword in 2.4 times?

Alexa has as usual bashed the nail squarely on the head.

Blillard should also be thanked here, there is someone clearly writing for eyeballs instead of trying to stuff the same keyword in as much as possible.

[ibacklinkpro]

Reading some studies done by Panda research deals, they say keyword should be 2% or less. @Richard 2.4 is a percent... so in a 1000 word article, at 2.4 percent your keyword should be there 24 times... but again 2.4% is too high... keep it under 2%

[Richard Van]

Originally Posted by ibacklinkpro

Reading some studies done by Panda research deals, they say keyword should be 2% or less. @Richard 2.4 is a percent... so in a 1000 word article, at 2.4 percent your keyword should be there 24 times... but again 2.4% is too high... keep it under 2%

Good point. I stand corrected. I was thinking in terms of every hundred words.

You do realise this is twice now in one day that we've agreed on something?

[ibacklinkpro]

lol, great minds think alike

[ashleysmith12]

hi
the ideal keywords are 3-5% this means that one can repeat the keywords 3-4 time per 100 words .

[Bendania]

Keywords should be about 3%, not more then that.

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[Nicola Lane]

Originally Posted by Webkingseo

Well it will effect.... Keyword density always should be between 2.4-4 %....

Originally Posted by Ricky Dawn

No more then 5%, I usually aim for 4% with my main keyword

Originally Posted by ashleysmith12

hi
the ideal keywords are 3-5% this means that one can repeat the keywords 3-4 time per 100 words .

Can you three please tell us where you get these numbers from?

Articles with this keyword density would be rejected from EZA – and would most probably be unreadable by humans.

I am particularly surprised that someone with a username like “webkingseo” would display such a lack of knowledge!

Originally Posted by joemayerich

Does it really make much difference to Google if articles have different keyword density of say 2%, 2.5% or 3%?

Whilst search engines may not be able to detect weather an article is interesting or factually correct – detecting that an article is keyword stuffed is a simple mathematical formula.

In addition article marketing for purely SEO purposes is becoming less and less useful – and a keyword stuffed article could only be used for crappy backlinks. So even if it is not totally irrelevant now - it soon will be.

So using articles primarily for human readers – with SEO as a side benefit is going to be the main use for them.

Humans don’t care about keywords density – unless it gets too high and makes the article unreadable.

So my suggestion is to keep the density under 2%

Hope that helps

[Alexa Smith]

It's going to be one of those weird threads in which, however often people who actually know what they're talking about explain (a) the realities and (b) the reasons for them, there isn't a way to prevent others who live in their own dysfunctional little SEO-based nightmareworlds (you couldn't call them 'dreamworlds') from "giving their own opinions", nonsensical and factually incorrect though they are.

But there you go: lack of quality control, when it comes to "information", is the corollary of "free speech".

[Zaheera]

Count the number of keywords/keyphrases on a given page, then divide it by the total word count. Voila: keyword density. For example, a 500-word page with 10 keywords/keyphrases = a keyword density of 2-percent.[2%], this works well

[gizmo222]

If the text is human readable, you have done right. Read it, evaluate it, release it.
More Keywords don't help you more. I believe that it don't matter if it differs between 2.5 or 3.5 % - there are more influences which have more weight.

(By the way, i recognized yesterday that the Songtext of "Sailor - Girls, Girls, Girls" is Keyword stuffing )

[rosetrees]

If you are writing an article for your own website there are other places to put your keyword(s). The article title, the page title, the menubar tab, the meta tags, the meta description. These are the places to put your keyword(s).

Your article should be ABOUT your keyword. It shouldn't BE your keyword. Just write an article. When your keyword needs to appear it will do so naturally.

I'm sure we've all seen articles that start:

In this article I'm going to tell you about blue widgets. If you are wanting to buy blue widgets you've come to the right place. I'm going to tell you which blue widgets you should buy. Blue widgets are...............

At which point, the reader realises your article is pointless, will tell them nothing and moves on to another site.

Get over worrying about keyword density and concentrate on writing a readable article.

[PatriciaJ]

Personally I try to aim for 1% or lower, but I don't think about keyword density while I am writing. I write naturally for readers not with the mistaken belief that search engines like keyword spam. After I have written an article I check to see if I have used a keyword more than 1% and if I have I remove or replace with related terms that still make a natural read and help the articles out more in the search engines. There are very few that benefit from more than 1%.

With most content or articles keyword in the title, keyword in the first paragraph and summary and a text link if you are submitting to directories is enough. I don't believe that any more will make the slightest difference to search engines, except of course when they see keyword spamming.

For those of you who are saying 3,4,5% think about the visitor looking for information who knows nothing about keywords. They read part of your article and then it starts to seem repetitive, or weird, they then start to wonder if you really know your topic because you clearly don't know how to write properly. If they can't believe in you they will click away and look for information from somebody who can provide a better read.

[stellaandreapark]

There is much talk about the ideal keyword density of a web page. The bottomline here is that there is no thumb rule regarding the ideal keyword density in a website, mainly because the search engines change their algorithms frequently. Also, different search engines allow a different keyword density. So, while a more than 2% keyword density is considered spamming by Google, MSN and Yahoo allow a liberal 5% keyword density in a web page. While some search engines attach more importance to keywords in your title, meta tags and web copy, Google - the most important search engine, searches for keywords in your web page text.