To stay on the safe side i would just stick to natural text and sprinkle your keyword in there where it still reads as natural. Don’t bother trying to identify the magic number…. it’s probably a floating point.

PSHow do you get the auto post feature.

Do you have a specific number of times you want to use a keyword in your head when you write something?

No. And depends on the relative authority of the site I am working on. And I consider the industry, or vertical. I’ll also consider what the competition is up to, to be honest.

I know that the page is got to be about that keyword term and I think about that a lot. It’s got to be repeated on sites with no authority. It’s got to be in the title unless you have a lot of incoming links.

Yeah I write so much stuff I don’t get round to posting much of it!

I would think if someone deliberately used a keyword 5 times in a post, they just cost themselves traffic because they would have got longtail traffic for 4 similar words if they’d used them – and made it read better.

200 posts? I’ve about 3 half written, and that’s it lol.

I do try and write naturally but I found it interesting to note on a Google presentation about SEO what it said about your content:

At the most basic level, Google matches:

* What users want—What they type; and
* What’s offered online—Text on pages

…and ranks your page based on:

* How well it matches—How often keywords appear; and
* Your site’s reputation—How many other sites link to you

…relative to everyone else’s pages

Its been a long time since I keyword stuffed, or even since I measured keyword density. I just try and write as naturally as I can, and then once I’ve written the content I scan over it and make sure I’ve not used the same phrase(s) so many times that it reads poorly to a human. I would not worry at all about how Google sees the content. I think at this point they are more than intelligent enough to see a site that contains “shoes” once, but also includes “feet, slippers, nike, socks, running” etc is about your topic – there is only a risk from keyword stuffing with no potential upside, imo.