Is Keyword Density still important in SEO?

[tennywilson]

Keyword is the important factor in SEO. Also keyword density that directly refer to number of keywords appear on that page and divided by the total number of keywords on that page. To increase the influence of your content, it is important. Keyword density should be maximum between 2-3% on that page.

[bharath kumaran]

Yes, Keyword density play vital role for getting ranking.

Keyword density is calculated the ratio of keywords to the total word count of a given page.

Let's see here there are a few important things to keep in mind:

1. Keyword density depends on words count like top-ranking pages used their specific keyword approximately 8-10 times, while having an average of 1285 words on the page.

2. Word count has become a more important ranking factor than the number of keywords used.

3. Relevant words and phrases have increased in importance, and marketers and SEOs would do well to increase their focus on incorporating these words and phrases into their content, rather than on calculating keyword density.

Here provide how should keywords be used? There some few tips

Position of keywords is more important than frequency. - Use the primary keywords in Title,H1,H2 ,Url and at least once within the body of the text content and no do more keyword stuffing on that page,its a spamming.
Focusing on the long tail keywords
Proper keyword research and analysis is still more importance for finding overarching topics as well as related and proof terms.

[AshokDixit89]

Keyword Density is known as the number of times a keyword or phrase used in a page compared to the total number of words present in it.

These are few useful tools for checking keyword density-

Live Keyword Density Analysis.
ADD Me Tool.
SEO Centro tool.
Article Underground.
SEO Chat keyword density tool.

[jamesroben]

Yes, Keyword density is important in SEO. We need to maintain 2% to 3 % of keyword density, if you use more it may cause negative effect on website.