---------a learning post, at the request of a DP member--------- Many article “writers†are keyword spammers without even knowing it] Yes, even those of you writing so natural, are guilty. ]Google hates keyword spammers, and sometimes puts their entire website thrown in the “sandbox. These includes even business websites 5 years old, who have a Page Ranking of 3 and a flow of customers. Suddenly they could have a Page Rank 3 turn into a PR n/a. This lowers their position in the search engines, which of course means their flow of customers turns to a trickle. 90% of common article writers that end up causing this website harm full of spam with key words fall into two distinct categories. A. those that use a cheaply spun article, that had already been rewritten. It could have could originally from a cheap article writer. Cheap article writers get slave labor pay, it is time to wise up. The people buying your articles are then cheaply in 10 minutes, turning it into another 10 articles. B. this is the mid range article writer, who writes naturally and does not understand keywords or keyword spamming. Example B: I recently randomly picked an article for my tutor manual so learners could evaluate it. It was written naturally, and had 5 main key words for the subject. One was the word kitchen. The article was 500 words, and the flow was “natural.†The nature of natural caused key words to be spammed. 1. In an article of this size there should be 4 keywords, each used 7 times. In the title, bio box, and 5 times in the content. 2. The author used the word “kitchenâ€, 22 times! ]This gives Google 15 reasons for keyword spamming 3. kitchen = kitchens, kitchenette, canteen cookery, eat-in gallery cook's room can each be used up to 4 times----hint http://thesaurus.com/browse/kitchen...-For-Unplanned-Needs-That-Crops-Out&id=712516 The unplanned needs when arisen must be tackled on time as if not considered on time can lead to other many expenses. It's quite usual that unannounced expenses crop up anytime and every time preparing for that is not possible so to financially aid the person who has met with expenses must opt for payday advance loans help the borrower to avail the money in the right away, when he is in need of it. loans] deal with the unexpected expenses like high utility bill, unplanned medical bills, car repairs, electricity bills, home improvement or debt payments that have arise before borrowers' upcoming payday] Payday advance loans are usually opted to meet unplanned, unexpected needs of the borrower which he can't switched it over to next month. Payday advance loans are small, short term loans that fill up the financial gap till borrower's upcoming payday. A. The article directory Ezine Articles, either accepted it for money reasons, as the adsense pay out on payday loans is on of the highest, or the submitter might be paying $97.00 a month for express issue. B. The keywords I see are 3, payday advance loans. Count the word uses Payday = ___ advance = ___ loans = ___ Check the whole article. C. Just with this one paragraph of 150 words, keyword spamming is evolving, imagine the keywords spam rate at 450? Or check the terrible spun writing. GO AHEAD – copy they paragraph above, and show your clients how other writers write, and in turn kill the website owner with keywords spamming. Then guarantee the owner that you will check the keywords so they are not penalized as a keyword spammer. (check my wording of this post to see how I avoided being guilty of the same- it was not easy) -----hope this helps DP member, and other members also-----if you want business, prove you are better, I know you are!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Good info. Useful and to the point. A question though a little OT: How does Google respond to internal links. Say for example I have a blog, and on every post I link to the main category, the main page and one other article. The links will always have the same anchor, and be on every post on the blog. Does Google penalize that, because I heard two opinions on it: 1. Google does not care about internal linking, and 2. Google does care and will penalize. So would Google see my example as spamming? On a side note, I have done this before and so far always had excellent results using this method for blog posting.
I have no empirical proof but I suspect that Google treats blogs differently than traditional websites. For example, if those link lists of friends, favorites and other blogs often listed on sidebars were to appear in a traditional website's footer, I suspect they would be considered as paid or spammy links.
dyadvisor, I always cringe when someone mentions keywords, word count and keyword density. Firstly, I don't recall any definitive "this is a good density" number from folks I would consider in the know. Secondly, I've seen overly stuffed (by word count) pieces that are quite readable and don't shout out, "Hey, Google, I want to rank #1 for kitchens. See all the times I used the word kitchens, it's because I want to rank for kitchens." I think it's an experience thing. Newer, less skilled writers often stuff, stuff, stuff that keyword in there and the more clever and savvy writers can stuff the piece without a reader noticing.
Google have a simple rule - if they *think* you are trying in some way to 'game' the index, they will shoot first, and ask questions later (if at all). If your internal linking is regarded as legitimate, you have nothing to fear. The days when you could engineer a page one listing just with a single site, cunningly linked internally, are sadly, long gone.
Thanks from the post Content Boss, I would definitely agree with your answer. As for the mention of over use of the word kitchen, that part Matt Cutts of Google is in charge of ---- spamming methods. By the way I might have the link to the hour long video that covers it. If you want, I can probably dig back a few days and get you the link to the discussion video. Since it is so easy to use derivatives and synonyms that carry power, why not do it the right way. Did you now that just one, first place Google listing that gets 1,000 monthly searches, 436 will click on the first listing. That brings money to the client. Unseen quality is nice, but less effective.
Getting the traffic is only half the point. Getting visitors to stick around long enough to buy something, click on an ad or join the conversation is what brings in the money. What's the point of a number #1 ranking if visitors hit the back button even before the page fully loads? Unseen quality, as you call it, isn't about being ineffective in keyword density or doing it the wrong way (whatever you mean by that), it's about writing a piece so the reader doesn't easily pick up that the piece is targeting a particular set of keywords i.e. it reads more like something written for paper publication instead of the typical keyword stuffed search engine fodder. More and more web surfers are getting wise to keyword stuffed, churned out by the dozen articles and identifying them for the garbage that they are and leaving the site without converting to a click or purchase. I've seen folks who follow the strategy of the numbers without understanding the underlying concept of not stuffing. Instead of stuffing the entire piece, they just stuff the headings, first paragraph and last paragraph. Google might fall for that mess, but site visitors won't.
THERE IS NOT ANY REASON NOT TO GET BOTH POINTS AT THE SAME TIME If you are in doubt I could easy let you see over 300 articles I wrote at one location. They are both quality and many have multiple top keyword rankings. Since I became disabled 8 years ago I turned my business over to my wife. This small niche area through article writing keeps her phone ringing and supplies her with a very high income. So do not be so quick to judge that the two can not work hand in hand. Some articles have been picked up by blogs 150 times. Have top ratings and good quality is the reason some major publications post them. The average web site reader sticks on her site , long enough to average reading just over 2.1 pages. With a traffic flow of over 5,000 visitors monthly, she certain could not handle it if EVERY person called. For the information of others there are over 200,000,000 active websites. Of those Google ignores all but 17,000,000. You do not get much traffic until you are in the top 1,000,000. Getting in the top 400,000 as a quality site gets 5,000 to 5,500 monthly visits. Now the big question, how many visitors does the average website get? Right around 1,000 a year. Trying to survive on three visitors a day will not cut it.--------------use this information with your clients to see why they need your services------------------
Those figures surely are averages, but I do have to disagree, because even my hobby blog, one I do not promote at all, but just fiddle with to see what I can do with the scripting, etc... gets more then 50 SE hits a day. If that happens without effort the average of 1000 hits per year per site can't be correct.
Yes it is true. Remember how I said how many millions of sites Google did not put into its routine of even spidering. For example: Typical website JohnRJonesAgency.com On the front page are beautiful pictures and graphics. The only words are the agency, address, email address, and phone along with the word contacts us or visit one of the departments listed. Now how is Google going to know what this site is about? 98% of people come in by the home page. The only visitors are the staff itself, family and friends. What search value is there. If you eliminated the top 1,000,000 sites, the numbers would be pathetically even lower. I am sure your hobby site is done quite a bit wiser. Go to alexa.com type in the site name. It the site is indexed there will be a number below 17.000,000 then there is a good chance that Google is indexing it. If you get the message no details found-- that means no significant traffic or content even countable. If I am correct Google owns Alexa, and Alexa can provide you with a whole lot of information, web traffic, and the actual words people search on to reach your site. What does that mean for a writer, these are sure enough people needing you writing skills.
I agree, and well it is a blog, so it has posts. And I know for a fact Google is indexing it because I get traffic from Google. I have to be in there to get that What I was trying to say was/is that even by doing nothing for promotion, the site still gets picked up, and traffic is building up, slowly, but steadily. So, that certain sites are not in Google, granted, no argument from me there. But the ones that are, even the poorly designed ones, still have to get more hits then 1000 a year, if my not promoted blog gets 1500 of the buggers in a month
Great post dyadvisor. It seems to me that a well-researched article written about a specific topic will inherently contain the right mix of keywords as well as words related to those keywords. I personally have never seen anything from Google or any other search engine that says "this many keywords will get this result". Google does however make a big stink about quality and usefulness of content.