About Specific Keyword Density Ranges
February 8th, 2008Keyword Density SEO Tool shows you the keywords you should be using and what to do to improve your search engine ranking without sending hundreds of automated queries to the search engines.
Features
* Scans heavy hitters’ best keywords
* Scores pages on a wide range of criteria, not just keyword density
* Suggests keyword phrases based on existing content
* Optionally weighs against single page or entire site
* Ranks phrases by keyword density ratio (percentage of total text)
* Warns of potential search engine problems with your page
* Automatically filters out meaningless “stop” words in the keyword density calculation
* Provides quick links to major search engines for each keyword
* Included Meta Tag generator automatically creates optimized keyword meta tags
* Keyword Density SEO Tool helps make your web site a SEARCH ENGINE POWERHOUSE!
How it works:
1. Enter the URL of the page you wish to optimize and click “Go Analyze!”
* Keyword Density SEO Tool reads the page and analyzes the critical areas for common problems.
* It then counts the words in the page and finds patterns of repeated phrases. Phrases over a certain “density threshold” are returned as “suggested keywords.”
* In addition to the suggested keywords, Keyword Density SEO Tool returns any keywords already present in the keywords meta tag.
* Based on the results of the scan, Keyword Density SEO Tool returns a summary of problems and suggestions for fixing them.
2. Now Keyword Density SEO Tool really goes to work:
* Under each suggested keyword are links to several major search engines.
* Click the links and Keyword Density SEO Tool returns the top keywords for all of the sites that made the top listing of the search engine you selected for that keyword phrase.
* Repeat this process as many times as necessary to determine the “money” keywords you should be optimizing for.
3. By combining all of the features of Keyword Density SEO Tool, you are using the best practices of SEO professionals worldwide for improving search engine ranking:
* Preventing “stuffed” pages from penalizing your position;
* Weighing keywords by their density in your site as a whole;
* Optimizing for only the phrases that are relevant to your web page;
* Making your pages “search engine friendly” for a wide cross section of popular engines;
* Learning how to develop relevant, profitable web pages.
Use Keyword Density SEO Tool to:
* improve the search engine ranking of your site,
* find the “money” keyword phrases that have the most impact,
* do side-by-side comparisons of your search engine ranking with your competitors,
* learn how Internet search engine indexing works,
* compare top search engine ranking criteria!
“Most” search engine optimizers only tell you the keyword density of the words YOU ENTER.
Keyword Density SEO Tool analyzes ALL the words on the page and suggests keyword phrases that are already heavily embedded in the content of the file. From there, you can use Keyword Density SEO Tool’s “top keywords” tool to scan the major search engines for the phrases the heavy hitters are using. You will also see words that don’t work and why!
Keyword analyzers don’t account for word proximity, or phrases.
When a certain phrase appears more than once, Keyword Density SEO Tool then calculates the “Keyword Density” of that phrase. The keyword density is the ratio of the phrase to the total number of words, adjusting for the number of words in the phrase. This way, you are analyzing both the keyword density and the proximity of keywords at the same time.
Some search engine opimization programs only do part of the job.
Keyword Density SEO Tool scores your page based on several Search Engine Optimization techniques. In addition to keyword density calculations, it verifies that your site is not overloaded and that it has the correct distribution of profitable keywords in the most critical locations.
Keyword Density SEO Tool Scores Pages Differently
There is a pervading myth that by inserting words you think are relevant to your site in your keywords meta tag, you will automatically improve your search engine ranking. The truth is that only a select few search algorithms utilize the keyword meta tag. Keyword Density SEO Tool calculates relevant keyword phrases by analyzing ALL of the words on the page, not just the meta tags.
Keyword Density SEO Tool factors phrases, not just keywords. When a certain phrase appears more than once, Keyword Density SEO Tool then calculates the “Keyword Density” of that phrase. The keyword density is the ratio of the phrase to the total number of words, adjusting for the number of words in the phrase. This way, you are analyzing both the keyword density and the proximity of keywords at the same time.
SEO professionals suggest an average of 3% - 7% keyword density for relevant phrases; however, recent changes in Google’s algorithm may challenge this belief. Our system accounts for a number of different criteria, not just density, so words that aren’t as prevalent might still score as “optimum” if they are placed correctly.
Conversely, if the keyword density is too high (above 10%), it may appear to be artificially “stuffed,” and may be penalized as spam by the search engine. Keyword Density SEO Tool warns you about words that may occur too frequently to be helpful.
Generally, a well written page will have its own prevalent keyword phrases. Keyword Density SEO Tool helps you identify them.
Keyword Density SEO Tool lets you set these thresholds yourself to fine tune for your own optimization goals. With this system, web developers get the benefit of keyword density scoring, while also tapping into the value of correct keyword placement.
Note: Keywords scoring “Optimal” by Keyword Density SEO Tool when weighed against the whole site are your best bets for success. Visit and Alalyze your site now >.
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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.
But, as we discussed, you don’t want your keyword densities so high that they turn your content into over-hyped gobbledygook, nor do you want to raise a red flag when the spiders come crawling over your content. If your keyword density is 20% or more, the search engine will most likely red-flag you for “keyword stuffing” and penalize you by moving you down in the search results.
Thus, keyword density ranges are controversial. To make things worse, different search engines have different algorithms. One of them might thing an SEO keyword density of 18% is fine, another may not.
The only way a search engine can figure out just what your page is about is to search for the keywords you use. Those keywords don’t necessarily have to be right there on the page—they can be in the title and in links that will lead to the page. Having said that, though, keywords that appear on your page are certainly the most common way that search engines use to decide what your page is all about. Keyword density refers to the ratio of keywords to the total number of words on the page.
Now I want you to look again at the paragraph above. There are 95 words total, and I used the word “keywords” exactly five times. The keyword ratio for the paragraph, then, is 5 divided by 95 times 100, or about 5.26%. Easy math, correct? You bet.
But how much does that stuff matter?
Well, it’s not a matter of life and death, but it’s pretty important. You see, when a search engine compares two pages to figure out which one ought to rank higher, keyword density will factor into it—usually pretty significantly. In fact, all other factors being equal (which is pretty much impossible, but let’s pretend), the page with the higher keyword density will generally rank higher.
However, simple as Keyword Density is, it can also get really complex in a hurry. Do plurals or other stemmed variations of your keyword count as keywords? Should stop words, which are those common words you see all the time like “a” or “the,” be ignored when calculating density?
Should you include off-page content, like meta tags and titles, in your calculations? What about keyword frequency or keyword proximity or keyword prominence? And like I’ve said before, bear in mind that if your keyword density gets too high, search engines just might realize it and penalize your page.
But now, hold on. Even though keyword densities are getting to be a complex science with lots of complicated algorithms, you can do it!
Keyword densities really are not rocket science, so don’t fall into the trap of making things more complicated than they need to be. Go to Google and search on “keyword density.” The first three pages should be ones that provide about 20 or 25 different tools for calculating KWD.
Now all you have to do is pick one that feels user-friendly to you and use it to optimize your web page, noting the results. Now try something else: run a Google search on your keyword, and run the analysis on the first ten sites. Take a good hard look at the results. From this, you should get a good idea how your page will compare with the ten top ranking pages in Google, at least in terms of keyword density.
Here’s the thing that frustrates people, though: if you go and do that with three or four different KWD tools, you will no doubt come up with different numbers, but the graph of those numbers will look very similar. Don’t worry about it, because the numbers aren’t the most important thing. You only care how they compare to each other.
Something else you’ll probably discover is that keyword density is not a very good indicator of rank. The top ranking page may have a much lower density than the page at number ten, for example.
Why does this happen, when you work so hard to get your keyword density high? It happens because KWD is only one factor among many. It’s important to a good ranking, but it’s not the be-all and end-all of a good ranking. What you really want to know from your analysis is the range of density values that rank well. Chances are good that if your page is below that range, getting on page one to compete with the big dogs will be tough, and if you’re above that range, the search engines may think you’re “keyword stuffing” and you’ll be penalized. Just remember, though, the numbers are guidelines you should know, not carved-in-stone rules that forever define your fate. Experiment!
You may hear self-proclaimed website gurus say that keyword density should always run between two and eight percent or whatever the current numbers being quoted in forums across the Internet happen to be. That’s partly true. Those numbers are probably fairly accurate for most keywords. They’re based on averages and it’s always good to stick close to an average.
But there’s a problem. Here’s how the problem goes: the most commonly used letter in English is the letter “E.” If you wrote a ten word sentence, it would be much easier to use the letter E five times in that sentence than it would be to use, say, the letter Z five times. Letters aren’t an even distribution. Neither are keyword. Big shock, huh?
Remember what I said earlier about not sounding awkward in your content? Well, the biggest thing about keyword density is that it must read well and sound very natural to a user. It’s useless to get a page one ranking if your content is very lame.
Like the letter E, some keywords are easy to use a lot of while still sounding natural. For instance, if your keyword was “grass” on a site about lawn care, it wouldn’t be hard to use “grass” a lot.
But some keywords just don’t lend themselves to being used a lot—like “quince.” (It’s a type of fruit.) Here’s the choice to be made: you can use an average range, which will work well most times, or you can spend time analyzing the top ten pages to find the best range for that particular keyword and be sure you’re not trying to optimize for a Z or a quince.
Frustrated? Don’t be! It isn’t that hard. If you’re still confused, check out a competitor’s page in Google’s cache (which highlights the keywords for you) to get a good visual feel for density.
Another good tip is to perform a “real person sanity check” on your content. Reading your optimized content out loud several times, and try to get a natural flow that will make the copy draw users who will come back. Then take a hard look at your content. If you can substitute a keyword for a pronoun without loosing your flow, do it.
For instance, if your keyword is “hammock”, instead of a sentence saying, “I love to lie in it,” say, “I love to lie in my hammock.”
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Keyword Density Analyzer
See what keywords on your page are seen as most important to the search engines with our Keyword Density Analyzer (KDA). The keyword density targets have been set as the result of extensive research into the algorithms of all the major search engines. Items in red indicate that your keyword density may be too low to rank across all engines. Items in blue indicate that your keyword density may be too high to rank across all engines. This tool can help you adjust your keyword density so that you know you are in the ballpark of what is acceptable to the major search engines for your target keyword. Click Here >
