27th October 2008

Size of Keyword Density

Keyword density (the number of times that the selected keyword appears on a given page) is an important factor in SEO. So, keywords shouldn’t be over used. It should be enough to appear at important places.

Repetition of keywords make your site spam. Don’t use repeted keywords again and again.

Suppose you have 100 words on your web page (not including HMTL code used for writing the web page), and you use a certain keyword for five times in the content. The keyword density on that page is got by simply dividing the total number of keywords, by the total number of words that appear on your web page. So here it is 5 divided by 100 = .05. Because keyword density is a percentage of the total word count on the page, multiply the above by 100, that is 0.05 x 100 = 5%

Never exceed standard for a keyword density. It should be between 3% and 5%.

Apply this rule to every page of your site and to set of keywords that relates to a different product or service. If you want to check the density of keywords here is the simple way:

Copy and paste the content from an individual web page into a word-processing software program like Word or Word Perfect. Go to the ‘Edit’ menu and click ‘Select All’. Now go to the ‘Tools’ menu and select ‘Word Count’. Write down the total number of words in the page. Now select the ‘Find’ function on the ‘Edit’ menu. Go to the ‘Replace’ tab and type in the keyword you want to find. ‘Replace’ that word with the same word, so you don’t change the text. When you complete the replace function, the system will provide a count of the words you replaced. That gives the number of times you have used the keyword in that page. Using the total word count for the page and the total number of keywords you can now calculate the keyword density.

This is going to be just one of the many ways you can make your website rank much higher in the search engines overall and for specific keywords or keyword phrases. A lot of people may not even really think about this type of stuff and may have not realized what damage they are doing to the SEO side of things. Internet Submitter website can help you to fill in all the gaps.

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