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Keyword Density Tools
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 Does anyone have recommendations on the best tool(s) to use to check the keyword density of each page of a website? I'm not sure if SEOmoz has such a tool. 
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 SEO Quake has a really neat Google Chrome extension that will show you the Keyword Density on any page that you're browsing. 
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 If the comments above haven't swayed you from looking at density, SEO Quake has a plugin for Firefox that will analyze all the words on your page and give you density for each word and each phrase. It may bring to light some phrases you weren't meaning to target, or show you a word you have much too high a density of by mistake. 
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 have you tried the on page report card? Assuming you have a campaign set up in the SeoMOZ web app, load up your keywords then go to Campaign -> On-page -> report card select the keyword and enter the url and your will get the page graded As part of the report it shows ranking factors such as broad keyword usage, appropriate keyword usage, plus a whole host of other ranking factors. 
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 Instead of looking at keyword density, I'd look at more important metrics and factors in on site optimization. Use moz's on on page report card http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new to check your onpage optimization. Also, you can use the toolbar to highlight a certain keyword. I think most people nowadays don't really take keyword density into account, unless it's extremely high and the post is very spammy looking. Go for natural text that will make sense for a reader, a real human being, to read the content. Use your keywords naturally throughout the text, and I think you'll see better results than incorporating a keyword wherever possible to increase keyword density levels. 
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