A Tool for Keyword Density – But do you really need it anymore?
OK, I know that some of you have probably read some old articles on the web or in a book or someone tried to sell you some software, all of which is focused on Keyword Density for SEO and you have already made up your minds that a Tool for Keyword Density will help optomize your Website and bring you magic free traffic.
Well. It Won't.
And I know some of you don't want to hear this and just want a free keyword density tool
So Here is a free keyword density tool and a link for a more automatic one that plugs into worpress. For the rest of you continue on after these free tool for Keyword Density links and learn what is more important.
This tool will install in yoiur google toolbar. it is from SEOChat.com. It will let you enter any website or web page URL and analyze your chosen URL and return a table of keyword density values for one-, two-, or three-word key terms. In an attempt to mimic the function of search engine spiders, it will filter out common stop words (since these will probably be ignored by search engines). It will avoid filtering out stop words in the middle of a term, however (for example: “designing with CSS” would go through, even though “with” is a stop word).
Add this tool to Google Toolbar
Here is a keyword density plugin for wordpress. This is great because it does it all on the fly, as you add or edit a post in wordpress. It has a lot of legitimate SEO benefits beyond Keyword density.
1) The Keyword Startistics Plugin for WordPress. It is available for free thru your Plugins tab in your wordpress dashboard. You can click on this link to go to the Keyword Statistics website. It is all free.
In a Nutshell the keyword statistics Plugin is a free tool for keyword density that automatically gives you the density of the most used 1, 2 and 3 word keyword phrases on any page that you edit in your blg.
Do you reaaly need a Free Tool for Keyword Density?
A number of years ago no one asked "Is Keyword Density Important"?. It was a given. It was an art. but a lot has changed in the last few years and keyword density, measuring keyword density, keyword density tools, well they just aren't as important as they used to be.
What is more important then Keyword Density? Well here is my short list and then we will list an analysis done by Dr. E. Garcia on the topic of "Is Keyword Density" a good measure? But first here is my list of the first 3 things that come to mind in what is more important then Keyword density:
1) Doing hi quality keyword research is far more important.
- Identify those Keywords that are relevent to your Niche, to your Website, to your current page and to your readers.
- Identify the subset of those keywords that you have an opportunity to rank on based upon competition
- Use a quality Keyword Software tool like Keyword Elite 2.0 or Keyword Research Pro to help you do all of this. They are automated, wholistic and give you a competitive edge over people using just the google keyword tool.Your traffic depends on it.
2) Keyword Placement is far more important then is Keyword Density. Click here to read our article on the top 12 WordPress SEO tips that deals a lot with Keyword Placement.
3) Quality of articles and readability and navigation of the website is far more important then is keyword density (UNLESS your website is a 1 page sales letter / splash page aimed at affiliate marketing. Then 1 and 2 above still apply as king of the hill).
Dr. E. Garcia explained why keyword density was a bad measure of relevancy in The Keyword Density of Non Sense.
- Search engines may place significant weight on domain age, site authority, link anchor text and usage data.
- The page title is typically weighted more than most any other text on the page.
- The meta keywords tags, comments tags, and other somewhat hidden inputs may be given less weight than page copy.
- Page copy which is bolded, linked, or in a heading tag is likely given greater weighting than normal text.
- Weights are relative. If your whole page is in an H1 tag that looks shady, and it does not place more weight on any of the text since all the page copy is in it.
- You probably want to avoid doing things like bolding H1 text as it is doubtful it will make a page seem any more relevant.
- Lots are queries are a bit random in nature. When people tweak up page copy for an arbitrarily higher keyword density they typically end up removing some of the modifier terms that were helping the page appear relevant for many 3 and 4 word search queries.
- Semantic related algorithms, may look at supporting vocabulary when determining the relevancy of a page. If you pulled the keyword phrase you were targeting out of your page copy would it still be easy for a search engine to mathematically model what that phrase was and what your page is about given the supporting text?
- When people focus too much on keyword density they tend to write content which people would not be interested in reading or linking at.
