About this keyword density checker
Keyword Density Checker
A keyword density checker analyzes your text and reports how often each keyword or phrase appears, expressed as a percentage of total words. Paste your article and the tool instantly lists the top terms with their counts and densities, so you can see what search engines will consider the page to be about.
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How to use it
- Paste your article or page text into the Text box.
- Optionally enter a Target keyword to track one phrase specifically.
- Read the Results table: each term with its count and density percentage.
- Switch between 1-word, 2-word, and 3-word views to spot repeated phrases, then revise and re-paste to compare.
The method behind it
Frequently asked questions
What is a good keyword density for SEO?
There is no official target — Google publishes no ideal percentage, and anyone selling you one is guessing. In practice, natural writing about a topic lands the primary term in the low single digits (roughly 1–4%). Write the best page on the topic first, then use the checker to confirm the term appears at all and is not repeated to an absurd degree.
Does keyword stuffing still hurt rankings?
Yes. Repeating a keyword unnaturally to manipulate rankings violates Google's spam policies and can trigger demotions — and it repels readers long before any algorithm notices. If your density for a single term is in the double digits, rewrite for variety: use synonyms, pronouns, and related subtopics instead of the same phrase.
Should I count single words or phrases?
Both. Single-word density shows your dominant topics; two- and three-word phrases reveal the actual search terms you repeat ("coffee beans" matters more than "coffee" plus "beans" separately). Check the phrase views for accidental repetition of long-tail phrases, which single-word counts hide.
Why do stop words dominate my results?
Words like "the", "and", and "of" are the most frequent in any English text — that is normal and meaningless. Use the tool's stop-word filter to hide them so content words surface. Do not try to reduce stop-word frequency; removing them makes text unreadable and no search engine cares.
Can I check a live web page instead of pasting text?
This tool analyzes text you paste, which keeps it private and instant. To check a published page, select the main article text in your browser, copy it, and paste it here — skip navigation, footers, and comments so they do not dilute the counts. A future version may accept URLs directly.
Worked example
Input: a 70-word product-description draft. The word "description" appears 3 times.
- Total words: 70
- Occurrences of "description": 3
- Density = (3 ÷ 70) × 100 = 4.29%
The two-word view shows "product description" occurring 2 times: (2 ÷ 69 two-word sequences) × 100 ≈ 2.90%. At 4.29% the primary term is present but not dominant — the draft reads naturally. If the same 70 words contained "description" 12 times (17.14%), the tool would flag it as unusually high, and the fix would be rewriting sentences, not deleting the word mechanically. Such excessive repetition is keyword stuffing, which Google's spam policies warn against.