Matt Cutts on his Blog is trying to show you what keyword stuffing is, but Honestly I think Matt is using the wrong term here, he shows a site that has 50k of non relevant keywords, stuffed into a textarea box… Matt are you saying if those 50k keywords where all on the subject matter it would be ok.
to me Keyword stuffing is basically over cooking Keyword density on page :
Good Seo copy :
David Naylor is a Uk based SEO, over the last 18 months David has only Done Search Engine Optimisation for large Corporate Clients, whilst keeping up to date on the latest search engine changes, David found having just a Few Large Clients, that he could concentrate on their SEO needs
Pushing Seo copy ( but i don’t think you should get a ban for that ):
SEO David Naylor is a Uk based SEO, over the last 18 months this SEO has only Done Search Engine Optimisation for large SEO Corporate Clients, whilst keeping up to date on the latest SEO and search engine changes, This SEO found having just a Few Large SEO Clients, that he could concentrate on their SEO needs. For more on SEO, contact Dave a UK SEO
Tricky Seo copy :
SEO David Naylor is a Uk based SEO, over the last 18 months this SEO has only Done Search Engine Optimisation for large SEO Corporate Clients, whilst keeping up to date on the latest SEO and search engine changes, This SEO found having just a Few Large SEO Clients, that he could concentrate on their SEO needs. For more on SEO, contact Dave a UK SEO
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BAD Seo Copy and keyword stuffing
yes, I chickened out of just posting the the actual piece of text with the keywords stuffed, I do think you can pick up a penalty for this and I don’t think I want to push Matt into a corner.. lol, But in my mind Keyword stuffing is adding keywords out of place or Hiding them… Matts example, well to be honest is just plain old stupid spam
DaveN
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25th July 2007 @ 12:56
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Dave good analogy of keyword stuffing…and a smart move to get a screenshot of the junk.
But you forgot to metion keyword lists which are a penalty for keyword stuffing.
So let say I am selling Trolls and I have different variation of them, and I just list them one after another with no naturalaty in my writing. That would be a Master ofence.So the density of not over populating the content is important.
Also repeating the keyword many times in one document devaluates its authority.Igor
25th July 2007 @ 13:08
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Dave, I just read Matt’s comments about keyword stuffing and I tell you one thing the guy who Matt is using as an example is a great Viral Marketer.
He is getting a free ride from Google from Spamming Google…
Ha, Ha, Ha..
He probably promotes his Website through email Spam, not even using his domain name in the Spam message but some .99 cents info domain for a redirect to his product…
These guys are on the ball…relying on Google alone will put you in the poor house…
There are so many ways to market a product and we have to take advantage of every opportunity we get.I chose to do it White Hat but try to be creative in doing it and not just follow the pack.
25th July 2007 @ 13:37
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28th July 2007 @ 02:20
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I agree 100%.
Matt’s post also educates nobody, I am more interested in learning how to write a better copy. I kind of hinted to this in Matt’s post and even used my own site as an example but who listens to me.
28th July 2007 @ 02:53
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Aaron do what you got to do.
It is not worth crying over spoiled milk.
Fight back and do it with style..28th July 2007 @ 14:44
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[...] Seo Tip - Keyword Stuffing Matt Cutts on his Blog is trying to show you what keyword stuffing is, but Honestly I think Matt is using the wrong term here, he shows a site that has 50k of non relevant keywords, stuffed into a textarea box… Matt are you saying if those 50k keywords (tags: seo keyword.stuffing spam search search.marketing) [...]
4th August 2007 @ 00:20
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[...] · Know what keywords to use – make sure that you use keywords that are important to your company or site within your pages. For example, if your business is located in a specific town, make sure you include the name of that town in your site, along with common words that describe what you do. Be careful not to get carried away using too many keywords. [...]
11th January 2008 @ 22:07
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[...] · Know what keywords to use – make sure that you use keywords that are important to your company or site within your pages. For example, if your business is located in a specific town, make sure you include the name of that town in your site, along with common words that describe what you do. Be careful not to get carried away using too many keywords. [...]
11th January 2008 @ 22:07
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Hi Dave,
Thanks for showing me examples of creating a good SEO copy. It can be hard to create a good SEO copy and get content for readers as well.
1st April 2008 @ 11:58
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Hi Dave,
Thanks for advice but more i am looking for good keyword density analyzer tool that shows me the exact keyword density for more my specific keyword.
Regards,
Bhavesh Goswami.8th April 2008 @ 07:01
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[...] Acá hay un interesante ejemplo (en inglés) de una persona que indica las formas supuestamente correctas e incorrectas de redactar un escrito en línea para balancear el uso de las palabras claves y evitar la densidad excesiva. [...]
5th May 2008 @ 13:12
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Isn’t most of that just common sense?
Firstly, the most important place for your keywords or phrases will be in the title for your page.
Secondly, placing related keywords in your h1, h2 and h3 tags will help the SE’s.
Finally placing your desired keywords in your first / last paragraphs should help. Oh, and most importantly, it should read well from a visitor’s point of view!
Good advice as always David.
17th June 2008 @ 17:54
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The screen shot looks like an actual piece of text on a site. Google has been emphasising for long on the fact that stuffing your page with relevant/irrelevant keywords would eventually lead to a ranking penalty.
2nd July 2008 @ 12:29
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Hehe that’s funny that you didn’t want to post the actual text for some writing and had to show an image instead… I guess once we get spiders with OCR crawling around then even the image can’t be there. The internet is becoming a strange place…
29th August 2008 @ 07:30
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I think so long as you work upon a keyword density percentage of around 5-10% you are generally ok. This density percentage needs to take into account everything though, including header tags, alt tags, image tags and so forth.
31st October 2008 @ 19:44
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[...] a great example of keyword stuffing, check out David Naylor’s blog post on the [...]
7th November 2008 @ 21:02
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Hi, David. As you can see from the trackback link above our monthly SEO Comic, Ranked Hard (http://www.rankedhard.com), referenced this post on keyword stuffing. Thanks for a great example.
11th November 2008 @ 21:55
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dave, happened to spot this one whilst doing something else. ok its old now but who cares.
we haven’t spoken but you did me a favour on a job a while back or at least i think you did! its been a while and i only just twigged the names. doh!
anyway i thought this keyword stuffing post was beautiful…..but what are you saying? SEO isnt about complete drivel on a page? are you saying well written english might actually help?
if you are, you’d better get down to sheffield and spread the word then….
joking aside, this is something ive used in pitches and seminars. ive REDUCED density and see rankings go up - enough said.
drop me a line if your planning any get togethers, ive seen a few posts. be good to meet up with other people in the region. not a great deal happening down here in sunny sheffield……
and my fiancee isnt too bothered about discussing canonicalization issues…..
all the best. jon
16th January 2009 @ 14:52
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20th February 2009 @ 00:13
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Personally, as a user, keyword stuffing to that extent would put me completely off a website. If the user has to read reams and reams of material all repeating the same few keywords, I would wonder where the actual ‘content’ of a site was, and probably back click the the next site on a SE.
27th February 2009 @ 11:53
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I agree, the copy has to read right as far as the visitor goes, I would never keep reading an page full of keywords, just looks like spam. Need to combine search engine tactics with visitor optimisation.
Good post!
2nd April 2009 @ 14:12
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Hi Daven,
having read both articles, I’d say that Matt should complement his article using your examples,
I agree, the example Matt gave on his post it’s about spamming and not stuffing, but also agree with the comments that it shouldn’t be reason a ban.
Sometimes this is caused just for innocence or even bad advise. Another day I’ve got a co-worker copying and pasting (and changing) some of my posts to email his friend as his advice on how to build up ranking.
It happens.
Cheers
Lucio