Article marketing is an easy and powerful way to make
money online or drive traffic to your website. There are many factors
that go into how successful your article marketing campaign will be,
but one of the questions I hear most often is \"What keyword density
should I use for article marketing\". Keyword density in article
marketing is one of the most misunderstood factors, and many people
make it way more complicated than it needs to be. Many people think
that if you get the exact perfect keyword density than their article
will magically jump to #1 in the SERPS, but this just isn\'t true. In
fact going too high with your keyword density has a bigger chance to
make your hurting your article than getting the perfect density would
help.

The problem with thinking about keyword density as a
mathematical formula is that you completely ignore the reader\'s needs.
The goal of your articles should be to answer there reader\'s questions
first and foremost, and stuffing your article full of keywords in
awkward places is going to make people stop reading before they have a
chance to click on your resource link (which is really what we are
trying to get). If you write a high quality article that really looks
after the reader\'s needs, then you won\'t need to do much optimization
to get it to rank well.

Since article directories like
Ezinearticles have so much weight in Google you really don\'t need to do
much to get a good ranking. Here are the simple keyword density rules I
use when writing an article. First of all you need to get the keyword
you are targeting into the title of the article. This is is more
important than getting your keyword into your article a million times.
After I make sure I have a good title I try to get my keyword into the
article 2-3 times. Keyword density is just about trying to let the
search engines know that your article is relevant to the keyword, and
you don\'t need to work that hard to tell them that. The only place I
\"force\" my keyword in is when I try to use it in the first few
sentences. If you follow these simple rules for article marketing you
should be able to get high rankings, keep the reader happy (happy
readers buy your stuff), all without writing your articles like a robot.