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For anyone confused about Keyword Density - Read this.

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by willyboy104, Nov 12, 2008.

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    Hey guys, after months upon months of continually answering the very popular question of "what is keyword density" I decided to write a fully in depth article about keyword density.

    I hope you enjoy it and find it informative.
    What is keyword density?
     
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    Thanks for the share
     
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    There is nothing to be confused about keyword density. It is insignificant.
     
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    LOL! That's right.
    But I wouldn't say it is insignificant because if a newbie go crazy and stuff keywords everyone on his page it could hurt his ranking.
     
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    5% max is a safe keyword density.
     
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    If you are not worried about keyword density, you will not be stuffing keywords ;) Write for your visitors, not for the search engines. Just include targeted phrases on the page.
     
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    Its fine saying that but I ve come across people that are obviously keyword stuffing their articles plus this is a common question asked so hey :)
     
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    Want to know how to get the optimal keyword density?

    Add up the keyword densities of the top 10 for your keyword, then divide it by 10. This will give you the "average" density of the front page, you can't go wrong.

    Although density doesn't really matter as long as your not stuffing the page, but if you want to shoot for a sound number just to be sure use the trick above. ;)

    Oh yeah, did you get the redirect fixed Willy?
     
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    #9
    That is analyzing keyword density way too much, IMHO.
     
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    Thanks for your great full information.

    Your calculated a keyword density, totally 67 words and SEO is 5 times. I could not understand the 5/167*100. can you please explain me? please…
     
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    Hey Sweet thanks for your contribution and nope I didn't it still doesn't recognise those two pages.

    Will.
     
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    Some very good points made by reputed members here.But still I am thankful to OP for making a post for newbies like us :)
     
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    write for people, not for machines
     
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    Firstly thank you for reading it and your feedback. Secondly thank you for highlighting tha embarrasingly I did the calculation wrong although I did verify it with a friend of mine who does Maths at University.

    The sum should be 5/67x100 which gives 7.5% which sounds much better. I have edited the article to show this, however I believe your still confused about the actual sum.

    Basically you take the amount of times your keyword has been added to the text and divide it by the overall number of words in the text then times by 100 to give you the percentage.

    The percentage then shows the amount of times the keyword appears in the text over the amount of text in total.

    Hope this makes sense.
     
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    ok. Cooooooool
     
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    Totally. If the text is natural and readable there is no way there will be too much keywords. Writing is the key :cool:
     
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    Yes and no, newbies tend to stuff their keywords with a lot of repetition so what better way to get it right than to mimic that attribute from the top 10?

    You will find different niches have different thresholds as to what's a spam document. Yeah you could say 5% across the board, but why not dig in to your niche and see what makes the top pages tick, replicate and go one better.

    Dang, i guess lesson learned no more brackets, spaces or other funny characters in your URL's. ;)
     
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    Yeah seems that way, whats the best thing I can do then. Just leave it going to my old theme of my site or to make two brand new pages.

    Will.
     
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    I'd make new pages with proper URL's and drop the old ones, i doubt there's many backlinks going directly to your old 2 pages. If there is a couple, contact the webmasters and get them to update the link.
     
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    Ok I shall do that then. Well the old pages had page rank 2 but to be honest I dont care about PR. I will check for links but I doubt they had many.

    Thanks Sweet :)

    Seems my site is currently experiencing high demand not sure why damn servers!
     
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