Appropriate keyword density (KD) range?

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Well, that could be a good start in optimizing your content and your site but it is not the only factor that ranks your pages in search engines. Specially after all of the algo changes, there are now tons of other factors to consider.

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as on my opinion over all for any search 2% to 3% is been an ideal density.

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I think it is also important when calculating the keyword density to take into account the headings, the title and description for that page. Keyword density is important however keywords within your title, filenames and description will seem to carry more weight. Also, from my experience keywords within the first paragraph of your on page content will have more weight than keywords at the end of the page.

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For whatever reason misinformation has beat out mathematics and logic and people still believe in this nonexistent metric. Dishonest “SEO’s” propagate this myth. The theory of keyword density is easy to understand and sounds believable. Anyone who hasn’t been otherwise informed should buy into the concept. Unfortunately it just isn’t true.

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Just naturally include your keyword dont count it density and trust me it will rank best. As there is no where keyword density has been mentioned. People will just say you it should be this much and this much but eventough you have 0 you will able to rank for sure(my personal exp)

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Keyword density should be 3-4% in an content.

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steveschmidt85;86012 wrote: Just naturally include your keyword dont count it density and trust me it will rank best. As there is no where keyword density has been mentioned. People will just say you it should be this much and this much but eventough you have 0 you will able to rank for sure(my personal exp)

please elaborate on how you're going to rank for a keyword if you site hasn't mentioned that phrase at all?

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After pengiun update you must decrease your keyword density to 2% (recommendation )

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steveschmidt85;86012 wrote: Just naturally include your keyword dont count it density and trust me it will rank best. As there is no where keyword density has been mentioned. People will just say you it should be this much and this much but eventough you have 0 you will able to rank for sure(my personal exp)

Keyword density is also important when you write article. If we not care about Keyword density in article so, how we understand the article is good or bad.

If you have any other idea about article writing then share here.

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satinderbal;8**41 wrote: After pengiun update you must decrease your keyword density to 2% (recommendation )

Keyword density play important role for indexing page in Search engine.So that should be up to the mark as per guidelines.

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2% to 3% is perfect.

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Okay, now that I am completely freaking out since I was told via a tutorial that Keyword density should be between 3-7%, what do I do if my site has been blacklisted or marked as bad because I have too many keywords?

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my opinion is 2% to 3% is the best choice. Then only the user wont feel like the keywords are stuffed in the content.

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I heard somewhere it's between 2% and 4% of your website's word count.