Aug 10
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If your write content, whether articles, blogs, or general content for websites, it is absolutely important you know what your keyword density is. If it is too high google will actually view you as a spammer and penalize you. There are programs that do this for you but here is a simplified way on how to calculate keyword density in any article.
- Write your article or webpage in Microsoft Word or something similar. Remember to use the keyword naturally and you can change tense as in change it to past tense.
- Goto the toolbar and click on “word count”. This can usually be found under tools section. If you use 2007 it can be found down at the bottom of Word.
- Take the number of words and write that down.
- Go back to the toolbar under the menu option “edit” and click on “find”. Type in the keyword or phrase that you are trying to hit and click on “find next”. Count down how many times that keyword or phrase appears in your article or content and write that down.
- Now open up calculator and type in the number of times your keyword or phrase appears in your content and divide or hit “/” that number by the number of words in your content.
- A huge number will appear, multiply that by 100. The number you end up with is the keyword density of your content.
- From there you can edit your content to reflect the right density you want. I see alot of people shoot for 1%-2% for articles going into eZine
Well hopefully this helps everyone so that they can calculate keyword density in their articles and get the traffic they deserve.
