3% would be the max I would use on my site. Going to somewhere else such as EA would be less. 2% for them is ok, depending on your wording. You can get by with 3% as long as your content is good, and informative. Put one sentence in there that sounds like "selling something" and you can forget it.
you should not use access density of keywords on website....you can use main keywords as h1 tag (3 times) on home page of website.
Don't worry about the keyword density, just ensure that you have used your keywords in all the places like title, meta keywords, meta description, h1, h2, h3, alternate text for images, names of files, etc.
I am confused with some many numbers flying around this post 1%, 1.5% , 3% , 5%, 10%, 30%-60%! Which of these is good keyword density? I never actually focused on my keyword density and my numbers seem single digit and I am worried if that's not low? My style of writing is more oriented to be pleasant to the readers than to get in more Keywords for the SEs!
That all depends on what you are talking about. Keyword density for EA is different from a page on your website. If you stick with your style you will be fine. The only thing I would add to that is for a web page. Put your keywords in the Title, once in the opening paragraph of your page and once at the end of the page. The rest of the page should contain Your style of writing. Articles are different in that the good article directories have humans that read. They want articles that sound good and provide good info. What has happened over the years is that newbies come in with a keyword term of "download ABC now". They then are told to have a 5 to 6% keyword density. The result is the article ends up reading and sounding like crap. They put their keyword phrase the exact amount of times to make the percentage, but the article is useless. Bottom line is to not really worry about it except for your web pages. I would still be sure to do as I suggested above. The rest will take care of itself.
Thanks for the quality response! I will keep on writing as I am right now, and will not be worried about SEs
Hey look, It really doesn't matter , I personally say about 2% is best,well I never go over 2.5% but people will argue and say that is wrong, But The truth is google does not rank your page from keyword density, all pages are ranked by relevance, or what we call now LSI(latent semantic indexing). As a matter of fact if you take a few minutes out your time and google a few words, you will find that often the first results don't even contain the keyword phrase you typed in. They are ranked high because they are the most relevant. You obtain high rankings by using your keywords a few times, but mainly focusing on relevant words. This will get you top rankings for multiple keyword phrases. Hope this helps you out.
Hey also man The best advice I see here is the guy that said where to put your keywords. You most definitely want your keyword phrase in your title, in the first paragraph and at the end of your page. But what he didn't mention is that you also want to do it this way in your articles, for ezine or any other directory. Now you want to make sure you have your keyword phrase in the title. You really want the keyword phrase within the first two sentences if possible, but if not just be sure in the first paragraph. and somewhere towards the end. if possible. You are doing the right thing by focusing on your writing, and not stuffing with keywords. You want your page to sound natural, that is why you shouldn't go over 2.5% keyword density. If you have any questions, I can help you out more in PM. don't want to expose secrets to the world
But what about if you're aiming for long-tail keywords and use them in about 3-4%, but end up with a part of that long-tail mentioned in more - 7-8%? Example: I'm going for "red and white wines" for example. Such a long phrase can't be used too many times because it really sounds unnatural, so sometimes you use "red wines", sometimes "white wines" and sometimes "red and white wines". Each of these long-tails is within 4-5% borders, but only the keyword "wines" is used more, sometimes even coming close to 10 %. How to solve this?
That is EXACTLY WHY you should not pay attention to keyword density. Write your articles and content naturally, just as you speak. The keyword density will take care of itself. Google uses other factors when deciding if your content is "on topic". Synonyms, for example. You cannot help but to include these when you write a good article. Where you have to start worrying about keyword density is when you SPIN articles. That is because you replace your natural words with "keywords", and it ends up sounding and reading like crap..
That is easy to solve, just use your keyword once or twice, and throughout your article use LSI(latent semantic indexing) words. LSI is what gets you ranked anyway. Google has caught on to people using keywords, and changed the rules, your page will be viewed according to its relevance to the users serch term. Often times if you type a keyword in google the first few results want even be targeting the actual keyword phrase you typed, but they are filled with LSI and googles says that they are the most relevant.