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What is keyword density?

by heris charles
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I want to know more about keyword density
help me.
#density #keyword
  • Profile picture of the author ProfitFromMyDomain
    targeting 1 -2 -3 word keywords have a higher density in your article
    targeting long tail kaywords have a lower density in your article

    Their is no fixed percentage on your dentiy it is entirely based on how the article is expressed and how long it is. Based on the article you shold put around 2-3% in your article. Again based on the length and where you can put your keyword to sound natural.


    Basically just write your article and put your keyword where it fits best. Based on whether is your targeting a short tail or long tali keyword.


    Just google it and read every article about it. I read about 23 articles on the topic.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnniewalk
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    Keyword density is nothing but in your On Page content how many times you repeated your keywords to know that keyword density formula is useful, and the keyword density percentage should be 3 to 5 %...
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  • Profile picture of the author sakib777
    In short, keyword density is the ratio between your targeted keywords and whole content words.
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  • Profile picture of the author Madis250
    It is more important to use keywords in your headings. 3-5% is rather old rule.
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  • Profile picture of the author samreeen
    Keyword density is the percentage of no of times a keyword or key phrase appears on a web page in comparison with the total number of words on the page.
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  • Profile picture of the author voldamort
    keywords density is how many times your keywords used in the article and the perfect density is 2-3% . so build your articles and website content accordingly ....
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Keyword density is something that people who enjoy wasting their time and mental masturbation focus on.
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  • Profile picture of the author Morna Donaghue
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    If you write quality content, you would never have to worry about keyword density. It'll come naturally.
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  • Profile picture of the author AndresNWD
    Not really a key factor nowadays. Just make sure your keywords are in the correct pages, where they make sense. Having at least a few backlinks with your keywords as an anchor text will help too.
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  • Profile picture of the author DABK
    No, you don't. It's irrelevant. Write, have your articles written, about the product/service you sell/promote and don't worry about keyword density. It just wastes time.

    Originally Posted by heris charles View Post

    I want to know more about keyword density
    help me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Slade556
    Keyword density has some importance, but it's even more important to just write naturally.
    If you want to focus on some specific keywords, you will no doubt use them in your article. Writing it naturally, using the keywords just like you would use them in a normal conversation is the key to writing quality content!

    Just think about it.
    Wouldn't it be annoying for the readers to keep reading the same word over and over again? Especially if you write a short article and struggle to introduce your keywords as many times as possible... Not ok, the reader will sense that you write for the search engines and do not care about offering valuable information.

    So, just write. Use keywords, but use them naturally!
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  • Profile picture of the author sheenagoyal13
    Keyword must be repeated more than 2 or 3 times in each 100 words block. It will help increasing the searching of your website. Try the keyword density checker tool to check keyword density to your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author riya279
    Keyword density is the percentage of times a keyword or keyword phrase used in the content compared to the total number of words in whole content.
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  • Profile picture of the author BlackWoods
    I always try to include keywords in the title or heading (if short tail), putting 5% density in the content seems a little hard to make your article sound natural, even 1% is hard to achieve sometimes (repeat the same keyword 10 times in 1,000 words article).
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  • Profile picture of the author davidweb09
    We use low keyword density in our website content OR seo submissions content normally 2-3%.
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  • Profile picture of the author RichardGChambless
    Keyword density is a jargon term in SEO, in simple words it refers to the number of times your keyword phrase appears on the page. A keyword density of any web page should be 5 % or less.
    For example, if you have a Web page with exactly 100 words on it including all headlines, captions, etc. And you have a keyword phrase that is on the page 3 times, then your keyword density is 3%.
    There is no particular hard and fast rule for what your keyword density should be. If you use keywords too much then it will look like you're trying to spam them. As well as, the more times you repeat a keyword phrase the more the page won't be palatable to your readers.

    If you are thinking about stuffing keywords in your web page then you need to read all the rules about it because keyword density is an important factor in SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author fugenxuae
    To calculate the percentage of your keywords repeated in an unique content to know that keyword density is useful..
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  • Profile picture of the author upshur
    There is no one-size-fits-all optimal ‘keyword density’ percentage anybody has ever demonstrated had direct positive ranking improvement in a public arena. I do not subscribe to the idea that there is a certain percent of keywords in words of text to get a page to number 1 in Google. Search engines are not that easy to fool these days, although the key to success in many fields is often simple seo. I do think you run the risk of tripping keyword penalty filters if you, for instance, were to keyword stuff a page and every element on it.
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  • Profile picture of the author BradHorton
    Keyword density is nothing more than the number of times you mention the keyword in the entire article.

    It was introduced as a metric by Google and other search engines to stop people just pure spamming their articles like this:

    "Wanna Make Money Now. Let's Make Money. Let's Make Money in this Make Money world. Meet Make Money Jim. Make Money Jim went to the Make Money supermarket."

    And so on, and so on.

    This is obviously a poor quality article from the readers perspective, so Google started penalising content which had a high keyword density.

    If you write a normal article, and then edit it afterwards to include your target keyword about 2% of the time (So 2 out of every 100 words, so if it's a 600 word article that would be 12 words). You'll be fine.

    Personally I just rely on the keyword being in my headline, the first paragraph, and maybe the last.
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  • Profile picture of the author kamaldeepchandel
    Don't focus on Keyword Density because Google said, work for User not for Search Engine. So, if you write about some topic try to write for your user then keyword density will automatically comes naturally and it will very effective in Google's eye.
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  • Profile picture of the author thuybk
    There is no a certain percent of keywords in words of text to get a page to number 1 in Google. If it looks natural, it’s ok with me.
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  • Profile picture of the author WardHare
    Keyword density is the percentage of times a keyword or key phrase looks on a page in contrast with the total amount of words on the page. Google spider search your web page depending on keyword related to your queries.
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