Keyword Density
 

A theoretical question for the clever people.
Say I was optimizing a free site for the phrase Love Big Butts and I got that keyword phrase at density to 2%. Then on the same page the density of the phrase Big Butts was 10% which caused it to be flagged up as spammy, would that flagging effect the original phrase Love Big Butts i.e. the whole site gets called spammy or would it only effect the phrase Big Butts?

My hunch is that a complete phrase is a complete phrase and would be treated as such by Yahoo and MSN. But I've no idea how Google would respond. Personally, I take a conservative approach with density. Algorithms change constantly.

I regularly get steady trickles of SE traffic to pages for words with a low density. Personally, I wouldn't intentionally take a risk like that.

As long as you didn't trip any filters and get yourself a penalty, I would think the ranking on the phrase would suffer and not the whole site.

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Thanks for your views, having that higher density is not something I would do intentionally but with some niches I find there are a limited number of different ways you can describe something and so it is my thinking that if you have to risk taking a hit for it then it is better to do it on a phrase you are not as focused on.