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Keyword Extractor

Pull the terms a document is actually about out of it.

Keyword Score Count Density

Quick Tool Overview

The Keyword Extractor finds the terms a document is genuinely about by scoring each candidate on how frequent it is here against how common it is in English generally — which is why "the" never wins. Multi-word phrases are extracted alongside single terms.

What it does
Extracts and ranks the significant terms in a text
You give it
An article, report or page
You get back
Ranked keywords and phrases with scores
Best for
Tagging, SEO auditing and summarising long documents
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About the Keyword Extractor

The most frequent word in almost any English document is "the", which is why raw frequency is a poor way to find keywords. What you want are the terms that are frequent *here* and not frequent in English generally — the words that distinguish this document from every other one.

This scores candidate terms on that basis, combining how often a term appears with how unusual it is in ordinary English, and adds weight for terms that appear early, in what look like headings, or as part of a repeated phrase. Multi-word phrases are extracted alongside single terms, since most real keywords are phrases. The result is a ranked list of what the document is genuinely about, which is useful for tagging, for SEO auditing and for summarising a long text you have not read.

Key features of the Keyword Extractor

Relevance, not raw frequency

Terms are scored on being unusually common here rather than simply common, which is what finds real keywords.

Position weighting

Terms appearing early or in what look like headings score higher, as they do in real documents.

Phrases extracted too

Because most genuine keywords are two or three words rather than one.

Score, count and density

Each keyword comes with all three, so you can judge the ranking rather than trust it.

Honest about search volume

The page says plainly that these are document terms, not search data, and to pair them with real research.

How to use the Keyword Extractor

  1. 1

    Paste your text

    An article, a report, a page or a set of documents.

  2. 2

    Set how many keywords

    Ten to twenty is usually the useful range for a single article.

  3. 3

    Read the ranked terms

    Each keyword comes with its score, its count and its density.

  4. 4

    Check the phrases too

    Multi-word phrases are extracted separately, since most real keywords are phrases.

Frequently asked questions

By combining frequency within the document with rarity in ordinary English, then adding weight for terms that appear early or inside repeated phrases. A word that is common here and rare generally scores highest.

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