Unless you're writing for a client who insists on a specific keyword density, ignore it and speak (I mean, "write") as your normally would so that your readers aren't turned off.

Use the keyword as many times as you would in natural speech. Keyword stuffing (not surfing) is the result of using a keyword in an unnatural manner. Since you don't speak that way, don't write that way.

There is no exact number.

You should focus on creating quality articles and sprinkling with articles NATURALLY.

Don't stuff keywords. That will get you penalized by Google.

Based on my experience I would say use your main keyword in first paragraph, in middle of post, in sub header between post content and in last paragraph.

This way google identify your main keyword of each post to rank and to show relevant adsense ads!

Hope it helps

Well, it is crucial to know or stuff keywords or words in a article.
While writing an article, we need to take care of keyword stuff. There is a protocol for keyword stuffing in an article and the ratio is 3 or maximum 4 not more then that.

Keyword staffing... You know, it is possible only in two ways: do it on purpose or if you're a very bad writer and can't express your thoughts normally. Without using the same word over and over again. If both variants have nothing to do with you then everything is ok.

I'm curious what the suggested number of times is for including an EXACT keyword in a document, OTHER than in the page title, h1 and alt text? What does SEOMoz advocate for this?

Just focus on your article and try to write it naturally. Naturally written article never sound as a keyword stuffing.as we all know according to the Google your keywords density not should be more than 2% .but if you are writing many articles and some post are grater than 2% than that no means it is stuffing.so just serve quality and unique content and forget all about things.

There is a simple formula which calculates Keyword density:

Keyword density(%)= No. of times your are mentioning keyword
---------------------------------------------------------- X 100
Total number of words

The ideal percentage should be between 3-4%. Hope it helps you write optimized content.

Keyword Density is not a basis anymore. Its how you write naturally.

study the SERPs you will find many keywords websites rank top 10 with only images or no text

so it blows any keyword density thoughts out of the picture

the secrets are in the actual SERPS

As said earlier, focus more on writing your content in clear good english (or your language of choice) rather than worrying about keyword repetition.

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Keyword Density (%) = (number of keywords)x(the number of occurrences)/(total words) x 100
The ideal percentage should not be more than 1%. Assuming your article has 2000 words, you should use your keywords in this article about 7 time.

You're making a pile of crap If you're counting words.

Look here is example; I am writing about "Blogging or Blog" so because basic main topic is blog so it will come again and again like;


"Today I will tell you how to create a blog, blogging isn't only hobby but it become business too, so when you thinking about a blog then it means live journal online. choose best design for your blog and create quality content, soon your blog will be get indexed by the google and will be able to make money from it. "

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So in this paragraph blog is repeating itself naturally, even I don't wanted to do. please guide me what I should do or should I replace the word blog with other? how many time I can repeat it in single post?

and blog is not "keyword" its just topic. so what i should do

Well buddy, you are talking about keyword density and I think we can use 3 to 5% keywords in one article or post. Means 3 or 5 keywords should be use in case of 100 words