Comments on: Synonyms Instead of Stuffing

By: Plastic Storage Bins

Plastic Storage Bins — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:57:30 +0000

It's too hard to come up with syonyms for certain industries…In my really short time reading and trying to learn about seo the one thing i've realized is that most of you are right, yahoo and bing are much easier to rank where you want to.

By: hgherb

hgherb — Sun, 08 May 2011 20:47:29 +0000

Thanks for the informative 3-7% for keyword density.

I was wondering if that includes meta data, picture titles, alt titles and jpg meta data as part of the 3-7% or are you just talking about the written text on the page?

Also does rearranging the order of words constitute stuffing. For example are “San Diego hospitals” and “hospitals San Diego” the same phrase. Most of my competitors practice this in great abundance.

By: Casey - SEO

Casey - SEO — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:48:00 +0000

This has been a major focus for us for all long time — explaining to clients that using every potential word on your page may be considered “stuffing” rather than “useful” information.

A great example of this is searching for “california divorce lawyer” and then searching for “california divorce attorney”. The phrases are absolutely unique but because they mean the same thing, you should rank for both by only using one of the phrases on your page/within the links and depending on the level of authority your website holds.

By: Big Blog Academy. Com

Big Blog Academy. Com — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:16:25 +0000

@David Malmborg,

Though it is really a good approach of using synonym keywords instead of keyword stuffing but it appears a bit confusing about how to calculate actual keyword density of keywords used in the body.

It is said that keyword density is important in terms of setting the relevancy of the page with the search terms then the question arise is how can we calculate the weight of the page in terms of keyword density when using synonym as keywords.

For example – If I am using keyword “Yoga for pregnancy” 5 times per 100 words then it stands as 5% but what if I am using the synonyms “Yoga for pregnancy” 3 times and “Prenatal yoga” 2 times.

Does it makes a complete keyword density of 5% for prenatal yoga and yoga for pregnancy as well or it individually stands as 3% and 2% for their respective density?

By: Big Blog Academy. Com

Big Blog Academy. Com — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:12:37 +0000

Really this should be one of the compulsory keyword implementation theory that should be learned by all SEO masters including me. This is a better approach of using keywords in synonyms so that we can get traced for max number of keywords used by the users.

As we all know that previously everyone would like to pay more intention for a single more common keyword to rank in SERP, but practicing that strategy is nothing but ignore huge traffic that comes in small numbers from different keywords that are synonymous.

So, synonym keyword use not only increase the chance of getting found by lots of other users but also helps us get rid of risk of google penalty due to keyword stuffing and helps in increasing the relevancy of the page.

By: SynDigg.com

SynDigg.com — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:31:24 +0000

Hello, We’ve launched in the weekend a new project which should be very useful to find related keywords and synonyms. We will digg at least 1 keyword every dag, so if you want us to digg a specific word you can send us an e-mail.

@Tim: Like David said in the article, use semantic words

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:07:56 +0000

I have an interesting problem with synonyms. I’m trying to optimize a page for “trackmobile” which is a railcar mover for material moving. However, the results are littered with “track mobile” referring to mobile devices. I’m having trouble moving my client to page one of Google due to the junk in the way.

Does anyone have any advice on how to get around this annoying issue?

By: Liza

Liza — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:25:35 +0000

Even though Google is by far the search engine that we should be focusing on, Yahoo and Bing combined are still valuable and can drive a bit of traffic and can’t be left out. However, this is great encouragement for SEOs to stop stuffing keywords into every sentence and opt for some synonyms instead.

By: David Malmborg

David Malmborg — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:20:24 +0000

Hey Guys, thanks for the comments.

I should have mentioned Yahoo and Bing, and didn’t even think of it. But it is true that neither one use synonyms, and I have heard their stemming is not near as complete as Google’s. However, since 70%+ of searches are done on Google, I think it is a good practice to consider for any website.

By: Alethea SEO

Alethea SEO — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:14:46 +0000

I agree with Aaron. Yahoo and Bing aren’t as advance in their algorithms as Google so it is going to be harder to keep or gain rankings using synonyms in those search engines. Testing synonyms will be good for secondary pages for now (or if lol) until Yahoo and Bing catch up.