Comments on: Keyword Stuffing

By: Why Your Small Business Needs a Blog | Getting Started

Why Your Small Business Needs a Blog | Getting Started — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:57:18 +0000

[...] optimization (SEO). Many people think SEO and automatically associate negative practices such as “keyword stuffing,” but SEO is much more complicated than that. SEO is really just the practice of making your site [...]

By: Trafficke Website Solutions

Trafficke Website Solutions — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:07:52 +0000

Thank you for the great article. Would you consider a description of a website (in sentence form) in the footer keyword stuffing? I agree that all major search engines see through keyword stuffing.

By: Nelson Cintra

Nelson Cintra — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:39:27 +0000

Thanks for the article. It’s unfortunate so many websites and even “seo firms” resort to such techniques as keyword stuffing.

By: Dave Bascom

Dave Bascom — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:50:01 +0000

Good eye, Chris. Nate’s example is 167 characters, and is probably a bit long for the sole reason that the last few words would get cut off in a Google search listing (Google limit is 160). The meta description is used to entice visitors to click rather than improve rankings, so even if your description is too long, it will just get cut off. We don’t normally stress too much about the length of the description. As long as you put the important stuff up front, it’s not usually a big deal if it gets chopped.

By: Dominic Anderton

Dominic Anderton — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:46:36 +0000

I agree with your article. Search engines look at the relevance of the content. The LSI algorithm is used to decide the relevance of words in content.

By: Chris Morin

Chris Morin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:19:22 +0000

Great article and explanation of what keyword stuffing is. I do have a question though. It seemed like your description above was long for what all of the sites call “Suggested Length” for a description tag. Is there a consistent size that SEO folks use that works?