Believe it or not the best tool is Microsoft Word. First you analyze the competition by coping the homepage content, puting it into word under tools there is an auto summarize. See how much of their content is on topic with the keywords they are targeting (which you can mainly get from the title tag of the page).

From there you take your content, run it in Word and make sure that your copy meets the same percentage as your competition. If your looking for something quick and dirty I use Firefoxes SEO quake plugin.

I hope this answers your question.

With so many keyword density tools online to attract eyeballs, this idea seems to be a myth that will not die. Many webmasters swear by it and just assume that density is somehow a sophisticated SEO tool that they must use to succeed online.

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divya

Post Advertiser

Keyword density is basically meant to show how often your keywords appear in the text that you’ve written compared to the rest of your webpage.. keyword density IS important in order to rank well in search machines, and you can check that you’ve got the right one using a keyword cloud. I found a pretty good tool to check that, look here:  http://www.webconfs.com/keyword-density-checker.php ! And it’s also free, it’s just a HTML code. Hope that helped, and good luck with it!

The keyword density tool is useful for helping webmasters and SEOs achieve their optimum keyword density for a set of key terms.

Keyword density is important because search engines use this information to categorize a site's theme, and to determine which terms the site is relevant to. The perfect keyword density will help achieve higher search engine positions. Keyword density needs to be balanced correctly (too low and you will not get the optimum benefit, too high and your page might get flagged for "keyword spamming")

I am not an SEO expert like Scott, and because of that I echo the welcome trend he points to.

That trend being more and more I here SEO spoken of in terms of common sense tactics meant to do right by products, services, and customers.

Relevant content, user friendly navigation, ethical conduct are all more valuable SEO tactics than the old "tricks" such as keyword density and meta data.

I heard that reinforced over and over again last night at Hotseat. Not that technical issues still are not important, just not as much so as once it seems.

Content is King, right Lisa

But listening to David Miihm last night I was also reminded that mechanics still very much play a role in Local Search. Especially with Google Local Business Center etc.

All this but the humble opinion of a PPC wonk, take it for what it is worth.

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Tom Hale

AdWords Specialist

http://www.ThomasCreekConcepts.com/

Keyword density is important because search engines use this information to categorize a site's theme, and to determine which terms the site is relevant to. The perfect keyword density will help achieve higher search engine positions. Keyword density needs to be balanced correctly (too low and you will not get the optimum benefit, too high and your page might get flagged for "keyword spamming").

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Alex

Link Building

Keyword Density is still important but no where as important as it used to be.

As a general rule you should mention your keyword early and often, then a few times through the body of the text and then once again near the end.

About 2% (1-3%) keyword density is a good figure to aim for. If you just write around your topic or key phrase normally you should get pretty close to this figure.

The idea is for it to read normally or naturally.

You should be creating content for your visitor‟s, not the search engine‟s, by doing this funnily enough you will be rewarded well by the search engine‟s.

The last thing you want is keyword stuffed text, otherwise you run the risk of being penalized for a too higher keyword density.