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March 13, 2026

# What Is Keyword Density Checker? A Practical Guide to Keyword Density

Keyword density stopped being a meaningful ranking factor over a decade ago, but the underlying question it's a rough proxy for — does this page clearly cover its topic — very much still matters.

Keyword Density Checker exists to solve one specific, recurring problem: keyword density is easy to get wrong by hand, tedious to check manually across a whole site, and quick to fix once you can actually see it clearly. That's the gap Keyword Density Checker fills.

In practice, this usually comes up in one of two situations — you're setting things up correctly from the start on a new page or site, or you're auditing something that already exists and trying to find what's silently broken. Both are worth doing regularly, not just once.

A few things worth keeping in mind:
- Use density as a sanity check, not a target — if your primary keyword doesn't appear naturally at all, that's worth noticing; forcing it to hit 3% is not.
- Look at related terms and synonyms alongside the exact keyword — comprehensive topic coverage matters more than exact-phrase repetition.
- Read the page out loud after checking density — if repetition sounds awkward to a human, it will read as over-optimized to a search engine too.

It's also worth knowing what commonly goes wrong here. Chasing a specific density percentage as if it were a ranking algorithm input — modern search engines use semantic understanding, not word counting. And avoiding these is usually less about effort and more about knowing to check in the first place.

This connects to a few other things worth getting right at the same time — see Internal Link Suggestion Tool and Search Intent Cluster Tool for the related pieces of the same technical foundation.

If you want to check this on your own site right now, Keyword Density Checker runs directly in your browser, free, with no account required.

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