Keyword density is the term used to indicate how many times a selected keyword appears on a webpage and it is always represented as a percentage of the total word count of the page. Keywords should only be placed in important and relevant places and should definitely not be over used as this is likely to render your site as either an artificial or spam site and it will be rejected by the search engines.
If you have one hundred words on your webpage, not taking into account the HMTL code which is used for writing the webpage, and you use a specific keyword five times within this content, the keyword density would be .05. This is worked out by dividing the number of times that the keyword appears, (in this case five) by the total word count (one hundred). You then multiply the result by one hundred to find out the keyword density percentage.
The normally accepted standard for keyword density is between three and five percent and in order to be picked up by the search engines this should not be exceeded. Bear in mind that this applies to each and every page of your website and it is not just for one keyword but for sets of keywords which relate to different services or products. Listed below are some simple steps you can take to keep a check on your keyword density.
Use a word processing software program copy and paste the content from a web page. Click on the edit menu and then on the select all option. Then go to the tools menu and select word count from the drop down box and make a note of the number of words on that page. The next step is to select the find option on the edit menu. With the replace tab open enter the keyword you wish to find, replacing that word with the same word so the text will not be changed.
Upon completion of using the replace function the system will show you how many words you have replaced and this lets you know how many times you have used the keyword on that page, you will now be able to calculate the density of the keyword by following the system mentioned earlier. In conclusion, there you have it now; next time your write an article or a post, make sure to check your keyword density in order to achieve the best results.
Here is a guideline for creating targeted and very specific keyword lists with Keyword Elite. If you go into project 1 of Keyword Elite and select the overture method in step 3 of generating keywords this software will visit the Overture search term suggestion tool to find related keywords to the phrase that you entered.
If in step 4 of the software program you select 100 results to return and clicked okay Keyword Elite would visit Overture and only gather Overture keywords that were related to your keyword phrase. Overture does have its limitations. However, this program will list all of the possible keywords that it can. You will notice that it may run slower if you select Overture as Overture.com is renowned for running slow.
However, by choosing Overture as your search term suggestion tool your keywords will be much more specific than if you selected any of the other options like Ask.com, Yahoo and the Google suggestion tool. However, as I say, since they are so specific you will not be able to create huge lists just with Overture. If you were to select another option like Ask the software would gather all the keywords that Ask.com had stored. This option will give you a greater range of keywords. For example if your phrase was dog food it may come back with keywords like dog food, home made dog feed, how to help your dog stay healthy, buy dog collar, etc.
If you were to try your hand with the Google suggestion tool the software will give you even more keywords. If you selected the meta tags option in project 1 this software now will visit the top ranked sites in Google for your chosen phrase. These websites have that keyword in their source code. The software will return as many meta tags as possible.
If you were to select Yahoo from step 3 in project 1 of Keyword Elite it will take keywords from the Yahoo search engine. Usually Yahoo won't give a lot of keyword choices beyond the ones you've already gathered from Google, Ask and Overture.
If you select the misspelled keywords choice in the program it will leave out letters and spaces on purpose. This is actually a very effective way of finding very low priced keywords for your pay per click advertising campaigns.
To make best use of these misspelled keywords, use them in Keyword Elite's Analyze PPC Listings project to find out the price for each of these keywords. You may be surprised how common yet inexpensive they are.
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