Keyword Density

[SEO_JamesBond]

What is the basic funda of keyword density?

means how much percentage?

What is LSI?

[cabdirazzaq]

Keyword density is the percentage of how many times you mention your keyword in the overall content of the page. The term is almost dead and is not used as often as back in the days, although I believe both MSN and Yahoo! gives a site more love if the keyword is mentioned a few more times on the page...

[Kasparoff]

I think 5 to 6 percent of keyword density per page is enough to rank decently. All other stuff is on page SEO and backlink quantity.

[Cricket]

http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/...d-density.html

[NothingButNet]

Originally Posted by Kasparoff

I think 5 to 6 percent of keyword density per page is enough to rank decently. All other stuff is on page SEO and backlink quantity.

Are you sure? I heard that Google tolerates up to 3% and considers the rest spamdexing. 5-6% might be useful for Yahoo and MSN though...

[Kasparoff]

Originally Posted by NothingButNet

Are you sure? I heard that Google tolerates up to 3% and considers the rest spamdexing. 5-6% might be useful for Yahoo and MSN though...

I agree. Things might be different today.

My knowledge is from 2005, I guess.

[Manish Pandey]

Things should look natural to a visitor and search engines will take care of themselves...

[Dongle]

Originally Posted by Cricket

http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/...d-density.html

According to that post, Google virtually ignores keyword density

Surely that can't be right (I don't doubt you lot of course), it seems a bit mad that Google wouldn't put any positive emphasis on keyword density........after all, I'm keep hearing that "content is king", and if this is so, I could build a site on BMX bikes, but make all my backlinks anchor text "plastic flowers", and rank highly for plastic flowers??

Or am I missing something blindingly obvious (always possible given that I'm new to all of this SEO lark!!).

[Manish Pandey]

Yes keyword density even if it's lower than your competitors site then also your website could beat them..the key being anchor text from quality sites related to your niche....

[Dongle]

Hmm, I suppose it depends on what Google classes as related sites then. My site is an art site, but a lot of the sites in my "arena" are competitor sites, a lot of my backlinks are from Interior Designers and Home Furnishings stores - would Google see this as a related link??

[t0nyp]

Keyword density refers to the ratio (percentage) of keywords contained within the total number of indexable words within a web page.
The preferred keyword density ratio varies from search engine to search engine. In general, I recommend using a keyword density ratio in the range of 2-8%.
You may like to use this real-time keyword analysis tool to help you optimize a web page's keyword density ratio.
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I use one tool to check keyword density - http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/...d-density.html
it checks 1 word , 2 word and 3 word phrase density

[tdd1984]

Originally Posted by SEO_JamesBond

What is the basic funda of keyword density?

means how much percentage?

What is LSI?

Keyword density is not a far important as what it use to be, try to keep it around 6-10% which different marketers prefer different. Now lsi is for latent semantic indexing use that on your back links, for example were ranked in the top 5 for website design and numerous other keywords that have lsi similarities.

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[pogung177]

Originally Posted by Kasparoff

I think 5 to 6 percent of keyword density per page is enough to rank decently. All other stuff is on page SEO and backlink quantity.

3-5 % is my best percentage density through my experiment

[Thomas Schulz]

It depends, but my experience is that it helps a lot if you have a website focus on some keyword phrases and variations of them. Of course, part of the reason for that is that you actually also get better anchor text backlinks

Anyways, if you are into content onpage seo, you may also want to read my article about [link removed]weighted keyword density (i.e. where keywords in title, headers etc. weigh more than if found in normal text)