Keyword Density Analyzer
Optimize your content with advanced N-gram analysis
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What is keyword density, and does it still matter?
Keyword density is the percentage of times a word or phrase appears relative to a page's total word count. Older SEO advice treated it as something to hit a target percentage for, but modern search engines use far more sophisticated language understanding — unnaturally repeating a keyword to inflate density is more likely to read as spam than to help rankings.
Where keyword analysis is still genuinely useful: spotting unintentional over-repetition that makes content read awkwardly, checking whether your target terms and natural variations actually appear at all, and comparing single-word, two-word, and three-word phrase frequency to understand what a piece of content is actually about.
This tool breaks your text into single words, two-word phrases, and three-word phrases, counts and ranks them, and can exclude common stop words (the, and, is, etc.) so the results surface meaningful terms instead of filler.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there an ideal keyword density percentage to aim for?
- No single number — this was common advice years ago, but modern search engines evaluate relevance and natural language far more than a target percentage. Write for readability first.
- Can too much keyword repetition hurt my rankings?
- Yes, if it crosses into "keyword stuffing" that makes text read unnaturally — search engines can treat that as a spam signal rather than a relevance signal.
- Why exclude stop words?
- Common words like "the," "and," and "is" appear frequently in any text but carry no topical meaning — excluding them surfaces the terms that actually describe what the content is about.
- Should I check single words or phrases?
- Both are useful — single-word density shows overall topic focus, while two- and three-word phrases reveal whether specific target phrases (like "email marketing software") appear naturally throughout the content.
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