Define: keyword Density

[shubhum]

Keyword Density is the percentage of times a keyword or a word or a phase appear in a webpage to thew total number of words in that webpage. it should be 2-3% in an content. More than that consider spam by the search engine.

 

[rachana]

Keyword density is the percentage of times a keyword or phrase appears on a web page compared to the total number of words on the page.

 

[RjMaan]

Keyword density is basically the number of times your keyword repeats in the whole article. Normally it is good to have the keyword density of about 3%.

 

[RH-Calvin]

Keyword density is the percentage of times a keyword or phrase appears on a web page compared to the total number of words on the page. In the context of search engine optimization, keyword density can be used to determine whether a web page is relevant to a specified keyword or keyword phrase.

 

[hilleug61]

Keyword density is the percentage of the number of times a keyword occurs on a webpage divided by the total number of words on that web page.
I think Ideal keyword density is 1-3% with a combination of semantic and LSI keywords.

the formula to calculate keyword density
(Number of keywords/ Total number of words) * 100

 

[Matt Futts]

I'm genuinely surprised that people are still talking about keyword "density".

If the writer is good enough, they will get the keywords in the content naturally.