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I'm kind of a newbie here with only about 10 articles, but I'm not quite understanding the Keyword Analysis that appears for each article.

For the longest time, I thought the Keyword Analysis was an analysis of the entire article, and I was wondering why the stats that appeared weren't matching the stats I calculated when counting manually. Then I finally noticed that the text actually reads, "Keyword Analysis for Article Summary." But this didn't make sense either - why post a graphic analysis of the three-sentence article summary?

Then I realized that was wrong too. It looks like the Keyword Analysis is actually for the Sample, which represents 1/3 of the article (NOT the summary, which is three sentences.) Am I finally correct about this?

If so, I suppose I'll have to do a better job of spacing out my keywords throughout the article, because ideally I'd like that graph to be a snapshot of the keywords I'm using in the entire article, so that potential buyers know what they're getting. Too often, that is not the case.

It is a count on the short preview. I would not worry about spacing out the keywords too much to satisfy that graph. Better to have the actual article flow properly.

I doubt customers make much use of that chart. Because useful keywords are more often phrases, I don't think it helps much at all. Anytime I'm given a list of keywords by a customer or web designer, they always include more than one word.

I recently wrote to support about this issue. I always do my own live keyword analysis before I submit work for approval. My results have been very different than CC's. Support responded by confirming that their keyword calculation is based on the article sample and since I only place a portion of my text for preview, this explains why my calculations were different from theirs. I suspect some of our customers do pay attention to the graphs since my articles with low keyword density tend to sit longer than higher ones.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this but I am not getting a response through normal channels. I am a customer and submitted a project request on October 25th. It is still pending and no one responds to my emails. Is something broken or are they behind on reviewing requests? I am running out of time. If I need to go elsewhere to get the copy, I need to know. Thank you!

That seems like an awfully long time for the request to sit in pending status. I'd try resubmitting it as it may have been lost somehow.