Beside the obvious of making your text make since to your readers, is there a limit to the amount of keyword that you should have on your page? I was looking at a keyword density tracker and it show that I only have my main words mentioned about 3% to 6% of the time. Is this to little? Thanks for any help.
There is no need to worry about so called "keyword density", content will naturally contain the right keywords if written for humans and not search engines. You shouldn't inject more keywords than what naturally flows with your content. Keyword density however is a good way to see keyword(s) and\or phrases you could also be off-page optimizing for.
thanks for the advice, there are so many different takes on stuff that a noobe like me is never sure. I have just been writing the articles for people to read and enjoy well at the same time trying to sell my product, when I look at my home page it is only getting a PR of one well some of the other pages are getting a PR of 3. Now after reading some posts on hear and looking at my source code I can see that I do not have very much text at all by what the Search Engine must see. Going to work some more on this "hopefully I will get it right some day!" Thanks for your comment.
Pagerank is earned by incoming backlinks, most likely your inner pages have more backlinks or higher quality ones.
I don't think there is any value to keyword density. You should read this: The Keyword Density of Non-Sense. Dr Garcia is an expert on data retrieval and explains why keyword density is meaningless. Here's an interesting thread at SearchEngineWatch about it. These are many of the top people in SEO discussing it. In the thread Dr Garcia is known as Orion.
Thank you and you're welcome! I was one that still believed in keyword density, until not too long ago. It seems to be a myth that just won't go away in the SEO community.
Great article, thanks for sharing. I particularly like the idea that weight is a function of both local and global occurences of a term. This makes sense in my eyes as a site about cheese suddenly writing an article on loans for instance is less likely to be relevant for someone searching for loans. Thus, if you want to target any keyword(s) with a dedicated page it seems to be important that you have related content somewhere else on the same domain with the same keyword(s). In fact this could in part explain why sites that cross-link content tend to do well because not only do the related links exist but clearly the related content (with keywords) exists too. This could prove important for long tail targeting i feel.
10% Density is too much for a keyword (if the density still counts, reading the above articles as we speak)
This discussion was very informative as I always thought keyword density was extremely important in seo.