I just got word of a new free Keyword Density Tool which you can find here: http://www.keywordhacker.com/

Thanks to Martin Avis from Warrior Forum!

What the tool does: You can paste your articles or links in the online form and do a very simple and quick, but extremely helpful keyword density analysis. In addition, the tool also shows you whether your main keywords are in the right HTML (H1) tags.

I am taking this as an opportunity to use this article here as an experiment. In fact, i want to rank for two terms:"Keyword Density"  and the otherword is "keyword density tool"

According to  common SEO practices a "good" density is about  1% - 1.6% for the phrases you want to rank or. Everything over 1.6%  looks VERY spammy to the search engine (and the humans).  So. After writing this article i will analyze it with the keyword density tool, in the hopes to get THIS article on page #1 on google for those two phrases :)

According to my research on big G, the term keyword density has a search volume of 8100 searches per month, while "keyword density tool" has 1000 searches per month. This applies for USA.

To make THIS a "worthy" article for google we should have at least 400+/- words...so we just keep on writing.

One good thing about the tool is also that you can enter a competitor URL on the interface. So, let's go to google and enter a term you want to rank for. Take the first site which comes up for this particular phrase, and analyse the URL in the keyword density tool.

You can take this as base for your efforts to rank for the same phrase.

Now, despites this, there are also recent changes in Google ranking algorithms which make the whole issue even more interesting. The magcal buzz word here is LSI which stands for "latent semantic indexing". In simple speak, this means that the search engine is "less strict" and becomes more intelligent in deciding what words do actually belong into a context.

As an example: An article could be about "grocery stores"....now LSI would also see "shopping cart", "cash register", "parking lot" and whatever other widely related keywords as "belonging" into the article. It is basically a bit like artificial intelligence. A conventional keyword analysis would probably NOT see a relationship between "parking lot" and "grocery store". This "new" LSI method of analysing of web content should help to be able to detect even more and better whether an article or web site is actually relevant to a certain topic. The times of keyword stuffing are over anyway. A few years ago you could have just "filled" your article with repetive phrases to rank - nowadays the search engines are really, really good in detecting whether your content is actually just computer generated nonsense or not.

However, there are still come classic SEO laws, and one of them is certainly to keep an eye on your keyword density and title tags, so you can never be wrong to check those if you are going for some rankings. As mentioned above, a good rule of thumb is 1.5% for your main words, and you should be good to go.The other rule is to have your title preferrably in H1 HTML tags.

So..now we are almost at the end of this blog entry about this great keyword density tool. I will save this and do an analysis and then submit the sitemap and call big G's bot to index. In a few hours i can hopefully give you results. If we appear on page one we can certainly say that the tool helps a lot in ranking articles or whatever content and that the common SEO rules for this still apply.

G.

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