I know some of you may disagree with this but when you’re writing an article I believe that worrying about the keyword density is a waste of time.
If you’re writing a good and informative article about a particular subject then you will naturally have your keywords show up in the article as well as some of its synonyms.
3% to 5%
Now I’ve heard people say that you should have the keyword density of between 3% and 5%. To me this seems ridiculous!
Has anyone done the math on this?
%5 would be very high. That’s 1 in 20 words. A 400 word article would have the keyword 20 times!
%3 also seems very high to me. That’s 1 in 33 words. A 400 word article would have the keyword 12 times!
Focus on good Writing
Instead of worrying about keyword density just focus on writing good informative articles about your particular topic.
I would make sure that your keyword did appear a couple times but beyond that I don’t think it really matters.
Search Google for your keyword
If you’re still really paranoid about keyword density then do a Google search for your keyword and analyze the keyword density of the top 10 search results and use that as a baseline for what you should do.
I know some of you will strongly disagree with me and that’s okay.
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Ya i didnt even know about keyword density till just now i never even thought that it matter i never focused on it. lol
Yup, I am totally disagree. Keyword density is still important. However I agree that 3%-5% is too much. The good keyword density is 2% – 3%. All keywords synonym also count.
I would rather read a naturally written article than one with keywords added for the sake of it.
I think Google prefers naturally written articles too.
Ezinearticles limits keywrod density to 2% and I think that’s about right.
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I don’t really look at my keyword density when writing an article. What I do try is get the keywords on the title, the first and last paragraph. The article could be 200 or 500 words or more but if I can get the keywords in where I want them I’m happy.
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