What is Keyword Density???

News from the front is that keyword density doesn't play a huge role in rankings.

You'd be better off designing the on-page information hierarchy to include your keywords.

Things like your keyword/keyphrase being in the URL, in h1 - h2 tags, being used in the body A NORMAL AMOUNT. And have internal links pointing to that page with your keyphrase as the anchor text (wikipedia is the gold standard for internal linking)

Keyword stuffing is a thing of the past. As it stands user signals and back-link anchor text pass the most relevancy.

Tend to agree, although older schools of thought still think it can carry some weight.

Rule of thumb used to be about 5%, anything more than this is keyword stuffing.

Don't get too caught up with keyword density as already mentioned. Make sure your target keyword/phrases are in your body content but worry too much about hitting the 5% rule

If you do want to check the density of a web-page or text, just type into Google "keyword density checker" and you will find 0000's to choose from

In my opinion keyword density is the number of times a particular phrase has been used on a page, and while most people would suggest that your phrases should be placed in your title, keyword tag, description tag, h1, h2, alt tags, title tags, url tags, and so many other areas that you can think of it only boils down to one thing.

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I recommend using a keyword density ratio in the range of 2-5%.If you do more than 5% It may be harmful.

It is a combination of the number of times a keyword or a keyword phrase, in proportion with other words, appears on a Web page. So that means that the more the keyword appears in relation to the total number of on page words, the greater the overall keyword density.

I agree between 2-5% is great, but just write and dont think about google. I find if I write an article or blog post then check the keyword % it normally comes out between 2-5%. If you write for Google it is clear to the readers that you are writing for the search engines and not for them and it can put them off!

I think this is something a lot newcomers do, I did it!

Ian