Hi, I have posted an article on Ezine that Ezine reports to be having a problem ... Message from ezine: "Excessive keywords or phrases will not be accepted in your articles. The keyword or phrase in violation is windows, registry. Your target keyphrase should not be repeated more than once every 100 words. In order to provide you with timely results, please login to your Membership Account, make the necessary changes and resubmit your article within the next 48 hours:" My article's topic is "Windows Repair Software" and the word windows and registry needs to appear several times ... so what is the max no of times (or kwd density) that I can use these words. Also the Your target keyphrase should not be repeated more than once every 100 words. would mean that each instance of my keyword phrase should be 100 wrods apart ???? Please clarify
As I understand it, your article might have looked spammy because of keyword stuffing. My articles written with the users in mind and not for search engines are all approved my ezine.
maybe they looked spammed .. but they sure enough were NOT ! All other articles of mine have been approved and I don't think there are many alternatives for the words 'Windows' or 'registry'.. I have to use them where I have to use them.
That's one of the big reasons I stopped using EzineArticles. They're far from qualified to tell me what is and isn't spam in a professional's work. There are some cases where a word or phrase is repeated not for SEO but out of necessity, because there is no other good way to say it (and half-assed attempts to do that make your article look like far worse than spam). If the writing itself is high quality and reads well, I wouldn't change it for Ezine's sake under any circumstances. That's as stupid as "writers" worrying more about what a Google algorithm thinks of their work than what readers do. You either have to play by their rules or change the game by finding better ways to market (and there are plenty).
Yeah, these days it has become even harder to deal with ezinearticles. You need to use main keywords 3-4 times in 400-500 w.
They mean repeating the key phrase every 100 words is the limit. I do disagree with what they said, though -- certainly repeating it once or twice every 100 words isn't spammy. Do more than that and it could be considered spamming.
Once I had to write and submit an article about 'Opening a bank account in Panama'. Now, it's obvious that the words like 'bank' and 'Panama' should come several times naturally in the article. But Ezine didn't bother to accept it owing to keyword stuffing. Who will make them (ezine editorial board and my client) understand this? Personally I think they use some kind of software to check the keyword density, no human is responsible for preliminary screening.
Keyword stuffing is not adviceable in ezine and or other article directories. It is better if we used 5 keywords in your article
What's "advisable" is for people to stop giving a damn about what underqualified directories tell them, and instead write for actual readers. It's the best way to rank well in search engines. It's the best way to build natural backlinks. And it's the best way to build your authority status -- all things article marketing is supposed to help you with. Forget about who or what flagged your content, and focus on your instinct as a writer. There's no substitute for that.
I haven't had much trouble fitting into Ezine's requirements... occasionally I have to take out a mention or two of something, and usually as you all mention it's not from trying to stuff in a keyword, it's from natural occurrences. However, for the most part it isn't hard to meet their guidelines, Ezine isn't about showing off your best material anyway... not for me at least.
The 100 character limitations are without a doubt a hassle, but I've never found it to be too dificult to deal with. A keyword density of 1.9% (the most you can achieve) is plenty for my purposes.
Oh hell no, you didn't go there. Writing for p-p-people?! (For anyone who's wondering, try writing a few articles with only your audience in mind. If you must, during the proofreading you can change a word or two here and there for SEO purposes. I've been doing this with good results. And I must say, it's rather nice to be back to writing for the human race again. )
Everytime I have written an article with keywords in mind, not only does the article sound dumb, but eZine doesn't like it. I have stopped worring about keywords so much, I now I just write good articles relevent to my site. I have no problem with eZine AND I have great traffic that comes from the articles. I'm perfectly happy not worring too much about my key words!
I had the same issue on one article, it was not stuffed with keywords but had a list of links with the keyword in, they have a set keyword density tool. Ezine articles are great but there are other companies that can give great traffic too, dave
I always heard the industry standard for keyword density is 3-5% and if you're writing a 350-500 word article that equation seems about right, though really rigid particularly if it reads well.
Ezine is simply unpredictable. At times they accept articles without a hassle and there's times they think it's too promotional or has far too many keywords and consider it spamming even though you may have approached different articles similarly. I can't really predict their keyword requirement but 1 thing I know that has worked is using a single keyword 4 times in a 300 word article.
I have been quite frustrated with Ezine in the past too because I have written a lot on the subject of men's health and if I use alternative words to 'penis' then I get flagged up as porn and if I use it normally I get flagged up as spam! When they don't let me use an article for that reason I try another site or just add it to a blog so my work isn't wasted.