Whats is an optimum Keyword Density?

[brooke]

Yes, indeed, I would like to know the ins and outs of key word density, please thankyou.

I am tending to get 10% on most although I have seen some competitors sites getting 30%. I sort of think thats too high and presume that google would see a high percentage like that as spam. Also i'm sure it has something to do with volume of words also.

Is there an article on it.

Cheers.

[Brian Turner]

I have to admit, I pay absolutely no attention to keyword density. I've heard it suggested that there are different good figures for different search enignes - around 20% I think is commonly suggested.

However, I'm sure I've had Mike Grehan tell me that keyword density is a big white elephant - Mike Grehan is very big in search and a nice guy to boot - and since then, I've not noticed any big-time SEO's reference the subject.

In other words, don't make keyword density your focus - especially as search is developing some pretty good semantic analysis tools, so if the language looks un-natural in the body of text, it loses points.

Hope that helps.

[brooke]

That helps a big bunch as I have just discovered http://www.googlerankings.com and was wondering how much effort to put into it all.

So far from your boards I have discovered that the following are not worth a great deal:

PR
Link Popularity
Key Word Density
Meta Tags

I was wondering how long it would be before the following items were irrelevent for ranking purposes:

website