Comments on: Keyword Stuffing: Google vs. Yahoo’s Treatment of Keywords

By: jonathan

jonathan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:41:26 +0000

Keyword usage is vital to quality traffic. One method of targeting keywords is meta-tags and header (h1/h2) tags…

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:32:55 +0000

It does not look natural. Certainly keyword density has a place, but it has been somewhat devalued. I believe that after reading your blog it will be helpful for the readers a lot…

By: marisa

marisa — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:36:04 +0000

Of course, there are 101 other factors that count with both Yahoo and Google, but get the basics right and you will be well on your way to high rankings.

By: Twitter Trends

Twitter Trends — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:38:25 +0000

Great article.

@aniroy1986 Writing for readers is always a good option, but what happens when an writer is in love with a special keyword? He might use it too often?

By: The Agra Indian

The Agra Indian — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:17:49 +0000

Thanks Barry for the great post.

I am very new to search engine optimization and mostly optimizing my own websites only. Honestly speaking the idea of rotating keywords in back link anchor text never came into my mind. I was just optimizing my site for a single keyword.

Using variations of keywords in anchor text would be a great idea and can generate few times more traffic.

By: Online Shopping Centre

Online Shopping Centre — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:56:41 +0000

I think search engine now simply ignore the meta keywords tag, they base their serps on the title and description tags. Although content has always been king, correctly anchored, incoming backlinks coupled with relevant meta tags should generate sufficient traffic.

By: SEO Norwich

SEO Norwich — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:13:03 +0000

Without a doubt Google is better than Yahoo at spotting keyword stuffing and spam of all types. IMO – this is a big factor as to why it is the market leader

By: christian audigier

christian audigier — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:55:15 +0000

Google depends more on keywords in backlink anchor text. But other search engines, most notably, Yahoo, do place more importance on keywords in content.

By: William Gardner

William Gardner — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:35:07 +0000

Nice article – there is a great firefox plugin that allows you to check your keyword density

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4788

By: aniroy1986

aniroy1986 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:45:55 +0000

write for readers not for search engines…
that makes a good site & good article :-)