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What is Keyword Density?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by uday11, Dec 6, 2012.

  1. #1
    Hey guys, can you please let me know some information how exactly the keyword density is calculated?

    1. Does Meta Description, Keywords are considered for it?
    2. Does Title comes into consideration?
    3. Does Alt Tags to be counted?

    Let me know if i'm not clear on my question

    Thanks in Advance..
     
    uday11, Dec 6, 2012 IP
  2. sharma.gaurav

    sharma.gaurav Member

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    Keyword density is very important factor.keyword density means is how many times your keyword is used in the web content page.3 to 4 percentage of keyword used is better.
     
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    Keyword density means the percentage of times a keyword is used on a webpage compared to the total number of words on a particular web page. And I don't think that meta tags words count while calculating keywords density.
     
    Mitch Ballard, Dec 6, 2012 IP
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    Elfen Lied Banned

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    Keyword density is the percentage of times a keyword or phrase appears on a web page compared to the total number of words on the page.
     
    Elfen Lied, Dec 7, 2012 IP
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    Keyword density refers to how many times the target keyword was used in the article. It does not include meta description, title or alt tags.

    Hope that helps. Have a good day!
     
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    Keyword density is the percentage of times a keyword or phrase appears on a web page compared to the total number of words on the page. In the context of search engine optimization keyword density can be used as a factor in determining whether a web page is relevant to a specified keyword or keyword phrase.
     
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    greendealmanager Greenhorn

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    Keyword density is a jargon term in SEO that refers to the number of times your keyword phrase appears on the page.
     
    greendealmanager, Dec 7, 2012 IP
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    Keyword density is the percentage of times a keyword or phrase appears on a web page compared to the total number of words on the page. In the context of seo keyword density can be used as a factor in determining whether a web page is relevant to a specified keyword or keyword phrase.
     
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    dirk041 Active Member

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    Keyword density, just on ur article...
    How much u repeat it on ur article, not in title, description...:)
    good Keyword density for Google is 2 %...
    with math: (Total Keywords / Total Words) * 100
    go to ur wp login, and the click easy wp seo..
    there are keyword density formula..
    hopefully helpful :)
     
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    Keyword density means how many time you repeat your keyword in content or webpage excepting Title, Description and Meta Tags..
    Thank's
     
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    Keyword density is the ratio, how many times you use your keywords in webpage. It is the standard 3%-5%. If you use your keywords more then the limit, your content will come in keyword stuffing and it is a black hat SEO technique. Search Engines don't allow to use it, if you use it, your website may ban or penalize.
    There are many online tools for check the Keyword density of your web page. I use Website Auditor in SEO Powersuit.
     
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    Keyword density shows how many times keyword appears in content. Between 2% to 5% is the ideal keyword density.
     
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    Thank u for the reply sharma..,i heard that keyword density should be ideal below 3 - 4percent..,
     
    uday11, Dec 9, 2012 IP
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    uday11 Active Member

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    @affilorama...The answer is pretty straight..,thank you.. For suppose if i stuffed my website title with keywords but i hadn't used not more than 2 times in body.., does this effects in any way with keyword density...?
     
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    uday11 Active Member

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    @dirk41..,thats a nice bit of answer for me to analyze myself.., Does google takes spider view of a webpage to calculate keyword density or how is it? if any insights on this will be much more useful..

    thanks in advance!
     
    uday11, Dec 9, 2012 IP
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    Google calculates keyword density by calculating number of repeated keyword on a page/number of total words on a page*100.
     
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    Keyword Density means that how many keywords are used in the web content of your landing page. it should be approx 4-5% in 1000 words content.
     
    promo@s4seo.com, Dec 10, 2012 IP
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    Keyword density is very important factor. keyword density means is how a lot of times your keyword is used in the web content page.3 to 4 percentage of keyword used is better.
     
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    In search engine optimization (SEO) keyword density is the measurement in percentage of the number of times a particular keyword or phrase appears compared to the total number of words in a page.
     
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    Keyword density means how many times your keywords appears on a webpage and it compared with the total words on a page.

    As I know all these things are not considered for calculating keyword density.
     
    johnmichal84, Dec 10, 2012 IP