Throwing Out Keyword Density Analyzers and Tools

For those of you who laugh at the effectiveness of keyword density and its use in SEO, Rand breaks it down for you in a follow-up to his excellent keyword density is a myth post:

[I]f you’re targeting “blue widgets”, just make sure that the most common 2-word phrase on the page is “blue widgets” and you’re there. No need to make it appear more than that.

If you’re targeting multiple terms on a page - you can either opt to have them be the same frequency, or in order of importance, i.e. “blue widgets” x 4, “red widgets” x 3, “yellow widgets” x 2.

Simple. And to those of you who harp on keyword density in this day and age of SEO, stop.