Keyword Density & Keyword Stuffing goes hand in hand? - How do you calculate this?

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November 24, 2016, 10:22 am

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Keyword Density & Keyword Stuffing goes hand in hand? - How do you calculate this?

A few months ago ajlancer made a topic about "What is Keyword density and SEO?"

In that topic, this is stated:

The ideal amount of keywords is 5-7%, though in practice, you can have up to 7-8% which will not likely have negative SEO consequences.

That being said, I recently made a discussion about keyword stuffing. And this topic is simply just a question about these two. It seems like both of these goes hand in hand.

However, how would you be able to calculate your keyword density? - What's the easiest way of doing that?

And if you have 1000 words of content, then you could literally have between 50-70 keyword mentions, and even up to 70-80 keyword mentions. Or am I wrong?

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TommyCarey

The easiest way to calculate the keyword density of an article is to figure out how many keywords show up per 100 words of the article. You can also do 1,000 like you mentioned above, but more people write up 300 to 500 word articles because it's easier for them.

Basically keyword density is a percentage game. I like to keep my keyword density around 3% and I'll never go higher than 5%. There are some people out there that say you can go as high as 12% but that's just ridiculous and you should never believe them lol

The higher your keyword density, the more unreadable your article will become. It will just look like you wrote the article to simply keyword stuff it, and that's never a good thing.

When you're writing an article for your website or a marketing campaign you should always focus on the reader and not how the search engines will evaluate your writings. If you focus on the readers, you'll probably stay within the keyword density limits that Google is looking for. Make the article readable and not only your traffic will love it, Google will too

Having a keyword density that is high will make your post or article unreadable and your visitors will think less of your website. If you somehow got your article indexed and it's bringing in traffic, that doesn't mean you're winning. You could get ranked, but if your article has a super high keyword density, your traffic will leave pretty quick. This will increase your bounce rate and over time your article will drop a lot in the SERPs.

A good way to optimize an article is to aim for a 3% keyword density and if you happen to get to 5% that's ok. Set some guidelines for yourself so that you don't get hit with any kind of penalties like keyword stuffing

8 years ago

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Lynne

Thanks for giving the actual way for working it out Razzy, I was wondering about that but never really investigated it properly.

I also prefer 1000 word articles, but when I first started blogging I struggled to get a 300 - 500 word post written. It is amazing how much easier it has become to write longer posts now that I have been blogging for a while.

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Lynne

Andre I honestly never check my keyword density when I write for my blogs. I simply put my keywords in the prime places, like the url, the meta title, meta description, the first and last paragraph, in some headings and then I just write naturally for the rest of the article. I highlight and underline some key phrases and that's it.

I find this works well for me. In fact I just answered your question about what you could blog about and the website of mine that has grown the most in SEO terms this year is the one I have spent the least effort on ranking. I write there because I love it. Of course I do target a keyword or two but I seriously just write.

I think writing for your audience is as important as keyword research and writing for SEO, so put that as a priority too.

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Corzhens

I have come across a discussion on keyword density with lots of comments that were mostly pointing to a percentage like for a 100-word article for the content 2% to 5% of the keyword’s appearance is the optimum number. My take on the density is to read the article yourself and you will notice if the keyword is being redundant and if not then it is okay. Write for the reader and not for the search engines.

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Keyword Density & Keyword Stuffing goes hand in hand? - How do you calculate this?

Keyword Density & Keyword Stuffing goes hand in hand? - How do you calculate this?

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