Should I Decrease My Keyword Density

[MyNet]

On SEOmoz's On-page tool it is telling me that I should cut the number of phrases for a specific key phrase almost in half, from 27 to 15.  However my keyword density for this page is only 1.68%.  I would have thought that was a good keyword density to have, if not even a little higher.

Should I trust the tool and decrease this keyword phrase?  Would love to hear from anyone with experience in this.

If you want to see the page it is http://www.mybluedish.com/.  The key phrase is "satellite internet"

[firstconversion]

Haha, yeah I just had a look. 27 is a bit over the top!

Having said that, I don't know if you are being penalized for that. It scertainly looks spammy to the naked eye.

Cut the extreme repetitions, especially in the lists (footer, article lists) and monitor your rankings. If rankings go up, you probably had too many and cutting was good. If you have no movement, then the keyword density does not have much effect at all

Would appreciate a post back letting us know what you did and what effect it had

Cheers

Stephen

[cfguti]

And remember... keyword density is a myth!!!!

I'm agree with Stephen.

This post can help you http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/seo-myths-that-persist-keyword-density

Bye

[Mikpam]

I agree with Stephen on trying to cut down the number(replace with related kw)  and monitor the results . The motivation to do so is more about user perception rather than SERPs. Page looks good above the fold but becomes a bit less compelling as you go down .

The tools only provide suggestions (good ones actually) rather than edicts , on top of my head imagine running that tool on cars.com keyword "cars" .

As far as "KW density" this device from my understanding was meant to cultivate best practice ; to optimize for form and flow rather than trying to gain an edge in the SERPs (might not be KW density after all) . This article is old but I hope it helps in explaining KW density (or the non existence of).

Hope this helps . Cheerio