how does the Keyword density analyzer tool work?

Answer by: George Kaloyanov, Aplus.Net Knowledge Base Support

The Keyword Density is an important factor that determines the search engine rankings of your website in regards to a specific keyword. Your keyword density should not be too low or too high. If it is too low, the search engines will not consider your website as relevant for that specific keyword. If it is too high, your website might be penalized by the search engines for "keyword stuffing". There is a wide discussion among the webmasters and search engine optimization specialists on what is the recommended density for a keyword or phrase so that it really benefits your Search Engine Rankings. There is no definitive answer, however we would recommend a good range of no lower than 3% and no higher than 7%.

With the Keyword Density Analyzer tool you can:

Check the density of Keywords, 2 Word Phrases and 3 Word Phrases within the text content of your html webpages. The tool will show the number of times a given keyword is found within the content of your webpage along with the respective precentage.
Change the Search Filter by specifying which words should be omitted by the report.
Browse your website's html pages starting from the homepage.

Here is how to use the tool:

Start by logging into the Aplus.Net Web Control Panel at http://cp.aplus.net using your Registration Number and Customer Password.
Select Web Hosting from the top navigation menu.
Next, select Hosted Domains and click on Manage Hosted Domains.
On the Web Sites Management page, select the domain that you’d like to manage.
Click on the Marketing tab.
Select the Keyword Density Analyzer icon. Note: You will see your website's structure in the left panel and the Keyword Density report of your index page in the right panel. The tool will use the default filter settings for the initial report.
Select the exact page which you'd like to analyze from the Website Structure panel.

In the Keyword Density panel, click on change settings to configure your Search Filter:

Ignore short words.
Ignore words which does not have certain number of occurences.
Language and document encoding.
Choose if you want to use our default list of stop words (words which should not be counted).
Add words as stop words or exclude stop words from our default list.

Click Done when ready.
The Keyword Density report panel will refresh with the new results based on the updated filter.