Keyword Density Tools

There is a lot of fuss on the internet regarding keyword density. It’ kind of funny, as people are to busy trying to write articles and design websites to please the search engines that they’ve completely forgotten how to do these things. We need to please the people who are going to be reading the articles and going to these sites. Ultimately that is what we better do if we’re going to have any success on the Internet. But, for those who are concerned with such things as keyword density, this article will discuss the tools that we can use to make the most of it.

First we need to know just what keyword density is in order to understand what the tools do and what they are good for. The best way to understand what keyword density is, is with an example. Let’s say that you’re setting up a website or writing an article on birds. You decide that your main keyword that you want to focus on is birds. If you are writing a 500 word article and you use the word bird 10 times in the article, then in order to calculate the keyword density of the article, you simply take the number of times you use the word bird and divide it by the number of words in the article. In this case, the keyword density would be 10%. This is a simple example, but it is basically what keyword density is. All you need to do is the calculations for each keyword or keyword phrase that you’re targeting. And therein lays the beauty of keyword density tools.

Imagine you’ve written an article that has 20 keyword phrases or you have a website that has 100 pages all with various keywords. The chore of having to do the calculations for all these pages and all these keywords manually would be massive to say the least. Huge sites would take hours, if not days to complete. However, with a keyword density tool, all of this can be done literally in seconds.

Using these tools, which all basically work the same way, you simply enter in the keyword you’re targeting and then enter in the URL of the web page or the text of the article. The tool will scan the document and return the keyword density for the keywords that you choose. You can enter in any number of keywords into these tools and you’ll get your results back almost instantaneously.

Each tool has its own interface and options. Some tools are more powerful than others. Because there are so many all over the Internet, many of them free, you basically have to hit the search engines and check out the specifications of each tool. Basically, you want to find a tool that can scan multiple web pages at one time. You also want to find a tool where you can enter in more than one keyword as this will save a lot of time. Unfortunately, many of the free tools only scan one page and only one keyword at a time.
If you’re a firm believer of keyword density, which I am, then these tools will help you a lot. Just don’t forget that you’re still writing for human beings.