Analyze keyword frequency and density of any content. Find over-optimized terms, discover your top phrases, and fine-tune your on-page SEO — instantly.
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About This Tool
Keyword density is the percentage of times a target keyword appears in your content relative to the total word count. It is one of the foundational on-page SEO signals that search engines use to understand what your content is about. Properly optimized keyword density helps Google rank your content for relevant search queries — but too much of a good thing can get your page flagged for keyword stuffing and actually hurt your rankings.
The formula is simple: (Keyword Count ÷ Total Word Count) × 100. For example, if a keyword appears 8 times in a 500-word article, its density is 1.6% — right in the sweet spot.
Natural, well-optimized. Google sees this as genuinely relevant content.
May be acceptable but approaches over-optimization. Review your content.
Keyword stuffing risk. Google may penalize or downrank your page.
Our tool identifies every meaningful keyword in your content, strips out common stopwords (the, and, or, etc.), and calculates the exact frequency and density percentage for each one. Results are sorted from highest to lowest frequency so you can spot your most-used terms at a glance.
Beyond single keywords, modern SEO depends heavily on long-tail phrases and LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) keywords. Our phrase analyzer identifies the most frequently repeated 2-word combinations in your content, helping you optimize for natural language queries that match how people actually search.
We automatically remove over 100 common English stopwords — articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns — so your results only show meaningful content words. This makes the analysis far more actionable than tools that count every word including filler words like "the" and "is".
Each keyword is color-coded based on its density: green for the ideal 1–2.5% range, yellow for borderline 2.5–4%, and red for over-optimized keywords above 4%. This gives you an instant visual health check of your content without having to interpret raw numbers.
Best Practices
Keyword density is a tool, not a magic formula. Here's how to use it strategically to improve your content's ranking without triggering penalties.
Write your content for humans, then check the density. If your primary keyword naturally falls in the 1–2.5% range, you're good. Forcing keywords into awkward positions hurts readability and can actually reduce dwell time — a negative ranking signal.
Instead of repeating one keyword excessively, use semantically related terms. For "digital marketing", use related phrases like "online advertising", "content strategy", and "SEO campaigns". This signals comprehensive topical coverage to Google's algorithms.
Where your keyword appears matters as much as frequency. Priority placements include: the page title, the H1 tag, the first 100 words, at least one subheading (H2/H3), and the meta description. Use the keyword naturally in the body without force-inserting it.
Longer content allows for more keyword mentions without inflating density. A keyword appearing 10 times in a 2000-word article has a 0.5% density — perfectly healthy. The same 10 mentions in a 300-word post would give 3.3% — borderline stuffing.
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