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.

To Research Keywords is crucial to the success of your Website. Period. It is the basis for generating website traffic from the search engines. Choosing the right Website keywords can produce a lot of traffic and get your Website ranked high in search engine listings while choosing the wrong Website keywords will leave your Website on page 100 or worse, with barely any visitors at all.

So it is not a question of To research keywords or not to do  research keywords, you must do it!

Many Website owners think they know which Website keywords are best suited for their search engine optimization strategy. But unless you know exactly who your target market is and what terms they use to find businesses like yours, chances are you need to research keywords very seriously to find the most effective search terms. To research keywords properly will give you an idea of what keywords your potential customers are searching for, how much competition there is for any given term, and which Website keywords are the most popular.

Look, if you learn anything from this article learn this (and check out the 5 links at the end of the article):

If you DO NOT do quality keyword research and apply it to your Website it will most likely fail – meaning that it will end up at the end of the search engine listings and no one will find it out of the millions of other Website's!

It is important for you to know what search terms your potential customers are looking for. The keywords your customers are likely use when searching for your product may not be the ones you would think, especially if your business is one that has a lot of industry jargon. You may be tempted to use Website keywords that don’t relate to your business just to bring in traffic, but this technique will always backfire, because the traffic it does generate is not interested in your Website.

To Research Keywords will also give you an idea of how great the competition is for any given keyword or keyword phrase. It is important to know how many other Website's use the same keywords and how many people are searching for them. The most effective Website keywords for your optimization strategy are the ones that are searched for the most with the least amount of competition. Weigh each keyword’s popularity with the amount of other Website's already using it. You should always include the most popular ones but concentrate on getting ranked for the Website keywords that have less competition.

OK here are links to some great articles that will tell you how to research keywords, show you free tools to use and show you some cool keyword software you can buy to help you to research keywords and SEO your Website or blog:

1)  Click here for an article on the Top 5 FREE keyword tools with links and a review of each one.

2)  Click here to read how to research keywords in 6 simple steps

3)  Click here to read an article on the Keyword Elite tool

4)  Click here to read an article on the Keyword Research Pro Tool (the best in my opinion)

5)  Click here to read a great article on 12 SEO Tips that you MUST KNOW!