Keyword Density Tool Recommendation

Looking for a good keyword density tool?

A good keyword density provides information that can be used. Sounds simple doesn’t it? However, a lot of the keyword density tools provide information that is useless.

Some keyword tools return all the single words within the body text of a web page. They also provide the density percentage for all those words. Is this helpful? Sort of but not quite. The picture is not comprehensive enough.

Other tools provide the same analyis for one, two and three word phrases. However, it is not stated whether the analysis is body text only, or includes META info and TITLE info.

Ideally a keyword density tool would do at least the following:

• Provide keyword density for the TITLE meta tag
• Provide keyword density for the DESCRIPTION meta tag
• Provide keyword density for the KEYWORD meta tag
• Provide keyword density for words considered header information (ie word in H1 tags or between STRONG tags)
• Provide keyword density for words within the text body
• Provide keyword density for all five elements above combined
• Provide the above keyword densities for one word phrases
• Provide the above keyword densities for two word phrases
• Provide the above keyword densities for three word phrases
• Provide the above keyword densities for four word phrases
• Provide this information in an easy to read format

Bruce Clay offers a Keyword Density tool that I have found to be very helpful. There is a free version and a paid versionl. The intermediate SE optimizer will benefit from the free version. The advanced optimizer will get the most out of a full paid subscription. A subscription to the whole SEOToolset (which includes much more than the Keyword Density tool) is $90 for three months ($30/month). The price is not for beginners unfortunately. However, I recommend all beginners to LEARN as much as they can about SEO first, before using a tool like this.

I used this tool early on before I knew much about SEO. My thought at the time was that it was too complicated. I couldn’t understand it. However, with many more months of optimization under my belt I returned to it and found it to be superior to the others I had been trying. Plus, knowing much more about SEO, the tool made complete sense.

I recommend beginners to read my search engine optimization tip article before spending money on SEO tools.