Need advice on keyword density

I need help. Experts have different opinions about this. Pro and cons. Even for the pro, they give different numbers and places. 1-2%? 2-5%? For a blog, is it on page? on the post only?
Please advice. Thank you.

 

Hi kikatt,

Keep it between 1-2%... I've actually done pretty well just using 1%, and got solid rankings through highly competitive niches.

Well, google ranks pages, not entire blogs. So you want to keep it at 1% for pages you are trying to rank for. If your homepage consists of multiple experts of inner pages, make sure its ranking for a completely different keyword than your inner pages.

The only thing you'll be able to do in this kind of scenario is to use h1-tage your homepage for a keyword of your choice. But you won't be able to create a solid keyword density as compared to your inner pages.

Hope that makes sense.


Take Cares,

Marc

 

It's a myth (and not to be confused with keyword stuffing which is different).

Write your content for humans. That means write naturally and don't try to optimise for search engines. if you purposely try to place a keyword in x amount/% of times, the text is going to come across as awkward and unnatural. This is not content for humans and will turn away your visitors.

Read this, this and this.

Stop worrying about crap like this. Instead, make your content and get your granny* to review it.

*Or other family member/friend who doesn't know about SEO, making websites, etc.

 

Keep your density density between 2-3 % of an article whether it is long article or short one. This is the best techniques to insert keywords in an article.

 

Screw the keyword density crap! Are you really thinking about that?

1% or 100%, who cares....

Search engines don't read your content, HUMANS do...

Search Engines rank your content.... Write it for humans and the SEs will put you exactly where you want to be!

BOOOM!

 

Completely Agree with you....

 

Write useful, interesting and unique content. Don't worry about keyword density. Write naturally by keeping in mind the visitors or users need. If your content is useful and different in all aspects for a user, then definitely more will visit your site and it will be more beneficial for you and your site..

 

Certainly there is no ideal percentage for keyword density. The matter is the placement of keywords on your content. It is called as Keyword Proximity. Place your keywords on the content where the user have a good see-through over the website.

 

Title, URL, headers are much more important. If you optimized them, you don't need to worry about keyword density. If your keyword research is good enough, you can rank your site/page with no content at all at the short run. For the long run you need to provide the visitors an added value to improve the CTR & Bounce rate which also affecting the rank (again - at long run and after you have some traffic). It can be good content (doesn't have to be 1000 words scroll), video, game, quiz, images or what ever...
Personally, I'm ranking most of my sites without content at all and start adding content only when I decide to start monetizing the site/page. I put 1 keyword in the first paragraph and sometimes another one in the last paragraph and that's all.

 

With the decline of meta-tags, keyword density ranges have become very important. They’ve also become very controversial. Here’s the thing: you want a high enough keyword density—at least 7%--that your keywords rank highly in the bigger search engines, such as Google, Yahoo!, DogPile, and HotBot.

 

use keywords 2-3 times in 400 words content, but if the content is more than 400 words, then use the same method of the use of per keyword/ 400 times which i have written earlier.

 

It is said that keyword density is about 2-4% for a blog post. But it is not exactly true and giving more imortance to keyword density can lead to stuffing and cloaking and stuff like that. Just write posts normally and do not emphasize upon keyword density. It would adjust automatically.

 

The density of Keyword density must be between 1-2% . More than that, Google may ban the site and it is termed as Keyword Stemming.

 

This is the most interesting explanations! Worth more than hours of browsing. All of you are experts! Thank you so much for taking time to answer! Thank you!

 

If you keep your keyword density around 2%, then it would be the good idea, and good keyword density, of course you have to check other stuffs as well, like keyword density in title, description etc.