Keyword Density..

[joelchrist]

Hi guys..

I wanna know measure of keyword density in seo. How keyword density should be for a site? how it should be to get more traffic?

[sem4u]

Many people suggest that it should be 2-10%, but I don't usually measure it. As long as you have your keywords in the body copy a few times and it reads well that is OK for me.

[govindseo]

i suggest you 7-10% is good keyword density!!!

[Cars-blog]

Don't worry so much about keyword density; worry more about how your content reads. You should create content for your users not search engines so you should ask does your content sound natural?

[mattbarthorpe]

Keyword density of anywhere between 7-10% of the total content is fine. But, the keywords should come naturally, it should feel that you've somehow tried and placed it in the sentence. One shouldn't forget that humans would be reading the content and not the search engine bots only.
Following this can yield better results in terms of organic search as well as from the search engines.

[jaakko]

thanks for the tips.

[tcyonline.com]

Originally Posted by joelchrist

Hi guys..

I wanna know measure of keyword density in seo. How keyword density should be for a site? how it should be to get more traffic?

Hello,
For Google and other search engine keyword density is in between 2%-8%.
This range is the best

[succeedemail]

Keyword density of 7-10% is NOT FINE.

First of all, keyword density has been proven to be bogus. Second of all, when you work keywords into your article NATURALLY, whatever % it ends up being, anything above 3 or 5% is ridiculously high.

I'd love to see all the research these people have that show that 10% or 8% or anything else is recommended.

[blazinjewel]

i think its better to create a good content using keywords as natural as possible.

[Palak]

Keyword density of 3-5% should be the best

[kbeus21]

Here is the tool to check keyword density: http://www.ranks.nl/tools/spider.html

Personally I never go over 7% for a keyword and 10% density for a keyterm

[Jason_Merchant]

Originally Posted by govindseo

i suggest you 7-10% is good keyword density!!!

Govind, I personally feel that 7-10% keywords is too much for a page. I probably prefer 2-5% as my keywords density. I think that beyond this google may consider you has stuffing keywords.

Though I think 7-10% is a good keyword density for Yahoo and MSN, as they prefer more keywords in the content of the site.

[michaelj72]

2-5% or so sounds fine to me; but honestly I just write the text and then think about it a bit later to make sure that i have some prominent and important keywords there, and in the title of the section etc.
above 8-10% seems like a lot but i don't really recall any research i've read suggesting that high of a %. mostly it's best to just write naturally for the visitors and optimize more in the html tags and in anchor text for the links to that page

[johntod]

try to generate original content, make the content user friendly and keyword density of 5-7% should be the best.

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[johntod]

try to generate original content, make user friendly content and keyword density of 5-7% should be the best.

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[ashokkumar]

Originally Posted by Cars-blog

Don't worry so much about keyword density; worry more about how your content reads. You should create content for your users not search engines so you should ask does your content sound natural?

Hello cars blog,

You are 100% correct.

Do not try to satisfy the search engines, Try to satisfy(With keywords) your end users it will automatically lift you.



Ashok Kumar J

[angilina]

Originally Posted by joelchrist

Hi guys..

I wanna know measure of keyword density in seo. How keyword density should be for a site? how it should be to get more traffic?

I think that you should not worry about Keyword density at all. You should write excellent content for your site visitors. Keywords will appear in content naturally.

KD do not have much [or any] affect on SEO.

[Hafsoh]

There is no limit to keywords but avoid stuffing keywords, instead of trying to find ways to manipulate the search engines, focus on converting your visitors into customers because its diverts your focus from conversion to keyword density

[Laura Varon]

Inserting keywords like crazy doesn't really work. Find a way to make the keywords land on your articles and other texts you might have on your website. I haven't read the other replies but I'm fairly sure that 5%-7% is a good measure... and you shouldn't really aim for the higher density, actually.

[Thomas Schulz]

It really depends. You also have to consider how you weigh/promninence of title, headers etc. but you can read this article about optimizing keyword density