So you’ve built your website, researched the keywords to use for SEO purposes and have written what you think is great, engaging content.
But out of excitement or maybe even carelessness, you could be repeating your keywords a little too often. Read your post again and look at the frequency of your keywords. You may just be guilty of keyword stuffing!
This happens when one uses keywords, linking structures, tags and other means of optimization on one’s site that has no relevance to the website’s content or purpose. As you may already know, this is definitely a no-no in SEO. So what bad does this do and how can you prevent it?
Keyword stuffing creates link spam.
Whenever you stuff your content with too many keywords, your site may be popping all over the place without any relevance to the keywords itself that appears on your site. You might be flagged as a spam site, because keyword stuffing offenses are monitored by the search engines and can result to temporary or permanent exclusion of your site from its results. Generally, most experts claim that a keyword density from 1% to 3% is best.
Solution: Utilize other venues of promotion.
There are many ways to promote and create traffic for your site. You can network with your target market or other similar businesses on social networks by sharing your posts, bookmarking it on social bookmarking sites, participating professional forums that are relevant to your site’s content or tweet about it!
Keyword stuffing results to content duplication.
Given that you can freely place the keywords throughout your posts, repeating the words over and over again is not only redundant and can turn your readers off – the chances of linking to the same content is also high, resulting in irrelevant and manipulated search results.
Solution: Strategically place keywords in your posts, and use them sparingly.
Consider replacing some of the occurrences of the keyword with synonyms to avoid keyword stuffing. Remember, people want to get search engine results that are relevant to their query. When you place your relevant keywords strategically and sparingly, you can create a wave of “good karma”, giving you quality link backs and recommendations from other sites!
If you’re concerned about the number and quality of keywords you have in your posts, I hope you found this information valuable, and have enjoyed reading it. I will be tackling more copywriting and SEO topics soon so stay tuned and thank you for dropping by!
To Your Success,
Elmar Sandyck
July 28th, 2010 at 12:51 am
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July 30th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
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admin Reply:
August 9th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Hi Kathi,
Aside from checking rankings, market samurai is an excellent keyword research tool. It automatically fetches google synonyms and allows you to organize and analyze your set of keywords. Perhaps, you might find this link helpful in learning more about the market samurai software http://www.noblesamurai.com/dojo/marketsamurai/, you’ll find great tutorials there. By going to this link you can Download Your FREE Copy of Market Samurai!
-Elmar
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August 4th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
Cool & clean looking website, bookmarked!
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August 5th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Thank you for this info! I enjoyed it.
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admin Reply:
August 11th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Hi Jolynn, glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for stopping by!
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August 7th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Very informative article… Looking forward for more articles on your blog
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admin Reply:
August 10th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Hi Andrew,
It’s nice to know that you find this post informative. Thanks for stopping by!
Elmar
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August 23rd, 2010 at 6:11 am
You first need to research what people would type in to find you. You need to optimize each page for its own term. Add the term in your title tag, description tag, keyword tag and in the content.
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September 21st, 2010 at 4:50 am
Hi Elmar, great points. While I acknowledge that keyword stuffing is an SEO sin, I think there are also cases when the writer simply gets carried away and doesn’t really mean to stuff his post with keywords. He doesn’t intend to fool the search engines; it’s just that maybe he got pretty excited writing the post and somehow kept repeating certain words for emphasis.
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September 25th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Have been following your posts and will of course continue to do so. The content is super!! You are doing a cracking job!
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admin Reply:
October 2nd, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Hi Hintergardt,
Thanks for your wonderful comment!
Elmar
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October 18th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
copywriting is my other job and it actually pays well just like my day job’~’
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November 8th, 2010 at 9:32 am
copywriting is sometimes a hardwork and you need to work a lot for it `
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admin Reply:
November 8th, 2010 at 10:14 am
I do agree completely, copywriting is very hard work, but also a lot of fun!
Thanks for your comment!
Elmar
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November 15th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Hey, Thanks for this nice post.
As an owner of online business this information is very helpful to me. I own Discount mp3 players store and I’m learning SEO methods to increase the visitors of my store.
I have a question about SEO, does Image SEO optimization really bring traffic? is it really worth a time it takes to optimaze all the images? I mean, yes you can rank in google images well with your images but, does it really bring traffic?
Thanks for this post, it was very helpful.
Regards
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admin Reply:
November 17th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
Hi Zaida,
I’m glad you like the post.
About your question on image SEO optimization, honestly I don’t know if image SEO is really worth the effort?
Personally I work with keywords (without stuffing them
), I build backlinks with the good anchor texts, I use the “All In One SEO Pack” plugin, etc… but I don’t put much effort in image SEO optimization.
I don’t know if it is the case, but if you might be looking for a good SEO Course, this is really one : SEO Networker
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment Zaida!
Success,
Elmar
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June 16th, 2011 at 6:42 am
Hi Elmar, thanks for posting this. I’m an SEO link builder too and well, keywords should only be written thrice or once in every paragraph. That’s good enough.
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admin Reply:
June 18th, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Hi,
Indeed, we should avoid keyword stuffing or else we get penalized by Google. Thanks for dropping by!
Take care,
Elmar
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