Thread: Keyword Density or Keyword Stuffing?

Sometimes SEO experts go too far in their desire to push their clients' sites to top positions and resort to questionable practices, like keyword stuffing. Keyword stuffing is considered an unethical practice because what you actually do is use the keyword in question throughout the text suspiciously often. Having in mind that the recommended keyword density is from 3 to 7%, anything above this, say 10% density starts to look very much like keyword stuffing and it is likely that will not get unnoticed by search engines. A text with 10% keyword density can hardly make sense, if read by a human. Some time ago Google implemented the so called “Florida Update” and essentially imposed a penalty for pages that are keyword-stuffed and over-optimized in general.

Generally, keyword density in the title, the headings, and the first paragraphs matters more. Needless to say that you should be especially careful not to stuff these areas. Try the Keyword Density Cloud tool to check if your keyword density is in the acceptable limits, especially in the above-mentioned places. If you have a high density percentage for a frequently used keyword, then consider replacing some of the occurrences of the keyword with synonyms. Also, generally words that are in bold and/or italic are considered important by search engines but if any occurrence of the target keywords is in bold and italic, this also looks unnatural and in the best case it will not push your page up.

It is a s an SEO term that refers to the amount of times a keyword phrase is found on your Web page.

normally keep keyword density 4%

Keyword Density basically denotes total quantity of keyword present in the total content. we can find out it with by total number of words and then compare it with number of times the keyword repeats. The keywords density can be in between 2%-8% but the ideal keyword density is 5%...

As far I know, a 250 words article should not exceed the limit of keywords from 3-4% whether it'll consider as keyword stuffing.

As per my point of view 3 to 4 % is ideal keywords density for search engine. Google can consider as a spam if you add more than it.

Keyword stuffing is not recommended in page titles or description as when a visitor gets into your link via search engine and found that there are no relevant content they would just go away back to the search engine and start looking for another site. Search bots keeps tracking on your visitors and see how they will interact with your site, will they go back to search engine and type the same keyword once again, or will they spend time on your site and interact with your content.