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Keyword stuffing – How much is too much?

Blog SEO Expert — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:55:08 +0000

Keyword stuffing

Importance of optimal keyword density

Having the right keyword density is very important for successful SEO. The optimal keyword density is between 3% and 5%.

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This density gives the best visibility to your keywords in the post in the eyes of the search engines, and thus gives you the best ranking in the search engine results page (SERPs).

What is Keyword Stuffing?

Keyword stuffing means having the keyword occur too many times in a post or webpage.

For example, if the keyword density is 20%, it is treated as being too much – naturally written text would never have any word (or group of words) repeating so many times.

So, it becomes obvious that the text of the post has been written (or manipulated!) with SEO in mind.

Why should you avoid keyword stuffing for good SEO?

When keyword stuffing is done, it seems rather unnatural to the search engine spiders, and this has a negative impact on your SEO – in fact, your post would be penalized by the search engines for keyword stuffing.

Keyword stuffing would also make the text of your post hard to read – it would not be reader friendly. And search engines only reward good writing.

Keyword stuffing is a black hat SEO technique – meaning that it is implemented specifically to fool the search engine spiders or bots.

This used to work in the past, but today’s search engines like Google are very, very intelligent. They can detect such techniques very easily, and would end up penalizing your post for this.

In fact, if excessive keyword stuffing is detected, Google can even throw your blog out of its index altogether. Now that is not something we would ever want!

Bottomline

Keyword stuffing doesn’t work. Period. In fact, it harms your SEO efforts.

Stay away from it!

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White hat and black hat techniques for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Blog SEO Expert — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:01:57 +0000

White Hat & Black Hat SEO

Why SEO?

The aim of SEO is to attract more visitors to your blog through organic search engine traffic.

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This goal is attained by achieving higher rankings in the search engine results pages (SERP) of popular search engines like Google for your chosen keywords.

The good and the bad of SEO

Over time, people have come to know of the various factors that contribute toward search engine rankings.

And through their SEO efforts, people try to build on these factors for ranking higher in the SERPs.

The problem is – there are good and bad ways of doing this!

White Hat SEO

The right ways of doing SEO are called White Hat SEO. These means are acceptable by the search engines, and also result in a better user experience for your readers.

For example, providing good content and writing blog posts focused on particular keywords are legitimate SEO techniques, and are therefore white-hat techniques.

I would be discussing many white hat SEO techniques on this blog going forward, so that you can utilize them for the search engine optimization of your blog.

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Black Hat SEO

Many times, people want short cuts. Therefore, they employ means that are not genuine. This is true for the physical world, and it is equally true for the online world as well!

They employ methods that are aimed at simply fooling the search engines into believing that the blog or website has good content.

Such techniques are known as black hat techniques, and the SEO based on such techniques is called Black Hat SEO.

Modern search engines like Google are very smart, and can detect most black hat SEO techniques. Once a search engine detects that a blog is employing black hat SEO, it would immediately ban the blog and would remove it from its index.

People who promise very quick results through SEO usually employ black-hat techniques – therefore, please stay away from them! You might see an initial increase in organic search engine traffic, but trust me, your blog would get banned in no time.

I would be discussing many black hat SEO techniques on this blog, so that you can avoid employing them even by mistake! Please subscribe to my RSS feed to get instant updates when a post is published.

Your blog on Google front page in 30 days – Is it even possible?

Blog SEO Expert — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:45:18 +0000

Blog on Google first page in 30 days?

That first rank in Google results…

All of us want to rank at the top in Google for the keywords we are targeting. That is why there are so many SEO firms promising you that elusive high ranking in Google and other search engines.

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Some say they would work on the SEO continuously, and some promise immediate returns – claims like “Your blog on Google first page in 30 days” or “Your blog in Google top 5 in less than a month”.

What kind of SEO service should you choose? The slow and steady, or the fast and furious?

Are fast results possible?

The simple fact of search engine optimization is that there are no short cuts. There is only one way, and that is the slow and steady way.

There are many, many factors that make your SEO good (Google looks at about 200 factors, by the way). And these factors certainly can not be changed (or manipulated) in a short time.

Like all good things, it takes time – a lot of time – and patience to build a good SEO campaign.

It takes time to make good wine – there is no short cut
It takes time to bake a good cake – there is no short cut
It takes time to barbecue your favorite foods (microwave doesn’t taste as good!) – there is no short cut

Similarly, there is no short cut for search engine optimization.

Good content is the basis of any good SEO campaign – it is the first step for getting that first position in the search engine result pages (SERPs).

I would be discussing the other important steps on these pages. Keep coming back, or subscribe to the RSS feed to get the updates as soon as the posts are published!

Do you agree?

What do you think? Do you think getting good position on SERPs is possible in a short time? Let me know in the comments.