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Article Writers... I need a keyword density tool

by CathyAnn
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I am looking for a simple tool I can put my article in and the tool will give me a listing of the words and phrases and how many times they're used. Anyone know of a good one? The ones I've found on-line have major deficiencies as in they don't count very well.

Thanks!
#article #density #keyword #tool #writers
  • Profile picture of the author Elle Davies
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  • Profile picture of the author 100KAffiliateManager
    If you're writing an article aimed at providing quality information for your readers then you shouldn't really need a keyword density tool. Just write naturally on the subject at hand, don't concentrate on keyword density or placement and then when you've finished, read it back and ask yourself the question - would you bookmark that page or forward it to a friend.

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    Kevin
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    • Profile picture of the author CathyAnn
      Kevin, When you write for ezinearticles.com you need to keep track of keyword density. You can have the keyword appear no more than once per 100 words.
      Once I was keeping track of my keywords and had an article rejected because of keyword stuffing. the problem was a word which wasn't my keyword was used too often. Having a tool which simply gives me a count of the various words would be fine.

      I'll have to go back and see which tools I've checked out. I've just used some seo that I've found on line. The problem is that if they terribly undercount the number of words in an article then I can't trust them to count my words.

      I may just have to hire someone to write a simple program to do this. It shouldn't be very difficult.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by CathyAnn View Post

        When you write for ezinearticles.com you need to keep track of keyword density.
        Respectfully, I don't agree with this at all.

        I've never done that, and I don't intend to.

        And after nearly 4 years of almost daily submission of my articles there, I promise it's something I'd be doing if it had ever occurred to me that it might be necessary or beneficial.

        On the contrary, in fact, Ezine Articles is unique among article directories in having an inbuilt automated keyword counter which will reject your article (without its even getting as far as a human editor) if the keyword density reaches 2%, without you needing to count them.

        Originally Posted by CathyAnn View Post

        You can have the keyword appear no more than once per 100 words.
        It's actually 2%. That's twice per 100 words.

        But if you use your keyword as often as that (and this is the point), your articles are going to read badly to human readers, and if that happens, there's no point in having them in Ezine Articles anyway, because no publisher's going to syndicate them from there to the sites/publications that have the traffic you want to attract.

        I strongly suspect that nobody here who is actually making a living from article marketing is counting keywords: they're barely aware of their keywords at all, once they start writing the article - and their readers aren't aware of them either, when they're reading it, and that's what matters.

        Article marketing isn't primarily about SEO: it's a method of generating highly targeted traffic in its own right, which (very significantly) transcends "Google traffic".
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Keyword density is for people that don't understand SEO, it's defiantly not for traffic.

    Learn SEO, not keyword stuffing.
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  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    Try this free online tool. It seems to do what you want:

    http://kesor.net/keyword-density/

    It counted the words correctly for me and provides the density % as well as the number of occurrences for each word. It also pulls 2 and 3 word phrases and calculates for them as well.

    Mahlon
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    • Profile picture of the author CathyAnn
      Originally Posted by onSubie View Post

      Try this free online tool. It seems to do what you want:

      Realtime Keyword Density Calculator

      It counted the words correctly for me and provides the density % as well as the number of occurrences for each word. It also pulls 2 and 3 word phrases and calculates for them as well.

      Mahlon
      Absolutely perfect! Thank you. I'm saving this one also.
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  • Profile picture of the author CathyAnn
    OK, guys, thanks for taking the time.

    I finally found the exact tool I needed. It just took me awhile to find the keyword combinations which would get me there. If you're interested in something quick and easy where you don't have to spend lots of time searching and counting your phrases you can find it at: Word Frequency Counter

    This way I can just put the entire article in, get the frequency of words and make the changes. It saves time which is all I wanted to do.

    As to ezinearticles... I've published more than 500 with them. I hadn't published in a while and went back to look at their guidelines. I found this copied directly from their web site: Keyword Stuffing - We recommend using no more than one keyword per 100 words, or a 1% ratio. Do not use a keyword repeatedly in the title, body, or Resource Box of an article. Lists of keywords belong in the keyword field, not in the article body or Resource Box.

    This is difficult when writing about something like manic depressive illness... or a specific meditation technique which uses a particular term in the directions. I've gotten busted for this before... and yes the article sounded natural before I made the changes. It sounded very stilted and unnatural when I made the changes.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Seriously, your learning the wrong thing (keyword stuffing/density).

    Forget keyword density, & learn LSI.

    Google figured out keyword stuffing for text pages a long time ago.
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    • Profile picture of the author CathyAnn
      yukon,
      I'm not interested in keyword density to use as an seo tool. I'm only interested in it to abide by the guidelines of an article directory. I don't keyword stuff. I just write. But I've had articles rejected because I used too many of the same words including those that were not my keywords, hence the tool.

      Thanks for all your help. I have what I need and won't be back to this thread.
      To your health, wealth and happiness.
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