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Don’t Stuff Keywords In Your Content Bird

By Mrstrongest @mrstrongarm

Hey, Thanksgiving’s right around the corner, so here’s my take on how to stuff a turkey…Don’t Stuff Keywords In Your Content Bird
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This post is about stuffing, however– only it’s keyword stuffing.

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Keyword stuffing’s a no-no. It’s a somewhat dated SEO technique for manipulating search engines, especially the big guy: Google.

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Basic idea: you stuff your post with all the words people might use to find what your selling.

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Here’s a funny example:

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Ten or fifteen years ago, you could get away with doing that– and lots of people did. Not anymore.

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Because Google got wise. Their search algorithm now recognizes that kind of thing for what it is: spam. A cheap trick to drive people to a site to make a sale.

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Nowadays Google penalizes keyword stuffing. Instead of being more likely to pop up in search results, you’re a lot less likely.

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Bottom line: if you sell a product or service, focus on writing good helpful content that people will actually want to read.

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Keywords are still important because you want your content to be found.

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WordPress allows me to categorize my posts, and I always choose these three categories: design, illustration, humor.

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I can also choose suitable tags (for this post I’ll be choosing “SEO” and “blogging,” among others).

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Keywords are only bad if you stuff them into your post in an unnatural way.

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Focus on writing good helpful content and you’ll be using keywords in a natural way that fits the context– and that will score points with Google’s search engine.

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There’s a lot more to search engine optimization (SEO) than keywords, and again, SEO is important because you want your content to be found.

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There’s an ongoing debate among marketers and content creators: when you write a post, which is more important: content strategy or SEO strategy?

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