What is Keyword Stuffing?

Discussion in 'Keywords' started by bradchawla, Mar 6, 2009.

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    HI can plz tell me proper information about keyword stuffing and whats the purpose of keyword stuffing..
     
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  2. willyboy104

    willyboy104 Active Member

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    The process of keyword stuffing is adding too many keywords which are the same to one individual page this includes the meta tags, hyperlinks and overall body of the page.

    For example.
    If you had a sentence with 100 words in it and 50 of those words were your keyword then that would be keyword stuffing because the percentage of keywords would be 50%. You need to keep your keyword density which is the amount of keywords you have per page or article or text down to about 5-7%.

    I would not worry about calculating this just focus on writing content for the readers.

    I recommend you read my SEO and Keyword Research Ebooks to find out more.
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    You literally "stuff" your keywords in. Their percentage in the text is well above normal as Willyboy104 pointed out.
    Not the best SEO tactic.
     
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  4. WealthyDon

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    Keyword stuffing is simply having more than enough "targeted keyword" in your web page content.

    For example, if my website is on "weight loss" and I write an article on weight loss only to use "weight loss" unnaturally to populate my content that amounts to keyword stuffing.

    Some webmasters and internet marketers do this to try to rank high in search engines result page (SERP). This is to attract good traffic to their site. And the penalty? If search engine finds out, it may result to ban because it is one of the blackhat ways of gaining traffic.

    The alternative to keyword stuffing is observing seo rules and maintaining an average of 2-5% keyword density.
     
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    Keyword stuffing is the practice of packing in so many occurrences of a keyword that the page looks unnatural to a human reader. The worst examples of this kind of practice end up getting penalised by Google. All the major SEs like natural reading copy.
     
    brian65, Mar 15, 2009 IP
  6. webrecsol

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    you mean if i use one keywords 4 to 5 time then we can say this is a keyword stuffing but i confused that if i input keywords likes a web development, website development, web design, website design, web marketing..etc.. this so is it keywords stuffing because i am using one keywords "web" again and again repeat therefore plz tell me that will be we say keywords stuffing..
     
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  7. Las Vegas DUI Lawyer

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    Your best bet is to have a lot of content on a page. To avoid keyword stuff, you then put 2 - 5 keywords per 100 words, so if each paragraph is 100 words then you interchange web design for web development and so on. Your meta keyword = can have all the keywords you want. Also you have to count keywords you put in your alt = behind your pictures on the page.

    You want to avoid keyword stuffing so that each paragraph reads nicely and the reader doesn't think "yes i get it, web design, you've said a million times" it gets boring.
     
    Las Vegas DUI Lawyer, May 10, 2009 IP
  8. webrecsol

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    hello friend i was asking that if i use Web more time likes a web development, web design this type use after that so we can say that it is a keywords stuffing yes or No...if yes then what will the proper way of keyword optimization.
     
    webrecsol, May 10, 2009 IP
  9. Francozac

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    An article must always be centered on the keywords and keyword phrases. As
    each website visitor goes to a site, there are those who are just merely browsing but actually looking for a specific something. When this happens, a searcher usually goes to a search engine and types in the keywords.It could be anything they want.
    Thanks!
     
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  10. Las Vegas DUI Lawyer

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    Here's where the amature is separated from the professional. Google literally says that mentioning a specific keyword more than twice on a page is too much. That being said, the professional exchanges the "specific keyword" with a synonamous keyword.

    For example:
    Las Vegas Dui Attorney is the same as Las Vegas DUI Lawyer. However, interchanging the two aren't really an exchange in keywords. Nevada DUI lawyer is a much better exchange. I could even go with Criminal Defense Lawyer. Hey, I could stretch it out to traffic lawyer.

    Is Web design, different from Web development? No. In fact if you had 300 words on the page and you are going to use 15 keywords on the page, and I'll even give you the benefit of the doubt and say you're going to exchange keywords. Using "web" 15 times on the page is going to look spammy. People literally come up with 200 - 1000 different keywords to explain their site. So literally: web design is the same as site development or even online layout. But 15 web design, web layout, web schematic, web development is just going to look not only like you're keyword stuffing, but it's going to be both spammy looking and boring to read.

    For example:
    The fundamental process of website development always starts with a good outline of what you want to accomplish. With a good outline you can focus your website design and concentrate on what's at the core of your thoughts and what you want to convey. When your website development outline is completed you can either write the code yourself or take it to a website designer. Please note that like all service people website designers charge different prices. And, as the saying goes you get what you pay for. If you opt to do it yourself, continue reading so we can go over the fundamentals of website development.

    See? :D
     
    Las Vegas DUI Lawyer, May 12, 2009 IP
  11. Traffic2

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    Why is it that article directories don't like keyword stuffing? Why is it seen as a negative thing? Have things moved on from the days when we were advised to get your keyword onto the page as many times as possible?

    Sorry - just read the post above and get the point! Thanks.
     
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  12. Francozac

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    i think you little bit confuse.so let me tell me you that there is alot of wise ways to do keyword stuffing in an article.But dont be spammy and make your article worth reading.
     
    Francozac, May 12, 2009 IP
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    Nope that won't be regarded as keyword stuffing, Google is far more intelligent than that. Instead its repeating the same phrases continously throughout an article.

    The best keyword density for an article is about 5-7% however what I advise is that you just write the article and don't worry about KD and keyword stuffing, if its natural it will be fine unless you have some sort of repetive disorder in that case your well you know... :p

    Hope this helps.
     
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  14. Francozac

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    yes,google bans the site if it thinks that it is spamming.The keyword density should be 4-5% not more than that in 4 paragraphs.You should write article in a style that it looks natural because people who are reading are not machines :D they are humans so be intelligent.
    Thanks
     
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    Hello

    Placing excessive amounts of keywords into the page copy and the HTML in such a way that it detracts from the readability and usability of a given page for the purpose of boosting the page's rankings in the search engines.
     
    harry009, May 13, 2009 IP
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    hello guys i satisfied your excellent posting.and i understand that if i use same phrases keywords 3 to 4 time this is a keyword stuffing..is its right this yes or no..
     
    webrecsol, May 14, 2009 IP
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    I have the same idea with webrecsol. Using the number of 2 to 4 times a keyword or keyword phrase on an article is considered as a keyword stuffing.
     
    robertstr, May 14, 2009 IP
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    Hi,

    Keyword stuffing is a black hat technique. Here one inserts keyword more and more in the content without the need.

    Example:

    We provide SEO service in India. We are best SEO service providing company in India. We provide ethical SEO services. We try to satisfy clients in our SEO services.

    In the above sentence the word SEO service is used again and again and also spoils the meaning of sentence.

    This is called keyword stuffing. Putting keywords in the content irrelevantly.
     
    shruchi nagar, May 15, 2009 IP
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    thanks for good reply and we can say that if we use in content same phrases again and again that is keywords stuffing..
     
    webrecsol, May 15, 2009 IP
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    Keyword stuffing is the method in which webmasters loaded there pages with instances of commonly searched for keywords, the practice is designed to direct traffic by raising the site's ranking in search results, in the hopes of increasing site income.thi is what exactly called as keyword stuffing.
     
    cisin, May 16, 2009 IP