Title Tag Keyword Stuffing

#1 duggieuk

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Posted 14 October 2011 - 01:35 PM

Hi
Everything i read about seo for the title tag it always suggests never to repeat words or to make the title look spammy. It's supposed to look natural to read and not contain too many keywords. Why is it then that probably 90% of the search terms i search for, the top few sites always have lots of repeated keywords. Isn't google supposed to hate this? An example would be bands for hire or wedding entertainment. The top results repeat words 3 or 4 times and i've even seen number 1 sites repeating words 6 times in the title. I certainly doubt that google penalise this. Countless sites seem to do this. Any one have any thoughts on this?

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Posted 14 October 2011 - 11:56 PM

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Posted 15 October 2011 - 12:02 AM

Correlation doesn't necessarily imply causation.

Leaving aside for a second the idea of whether or not keyword stuffing is actually helping their SEO, it does indicate that at one point these sites have had some effort put into SEO on-page, and probably off-page. A good title and enticing meta description containing keywords but written in natural language certainly gives me more motivation to click through, and the accuracy of the title and description and quality of the rest of the page will determine whether or not I bounce.

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Posted 15 October 2011 - 08:38 AM

Keyword stuffing is dangerous now. We should avoid it and we should try not to repeat the same keyword twice in title and meta description even.

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Posted 15 October 2011 - 12:09 PM

Google is smart and works out the keyphrases and words. You might see the same word has been repeated, but look at the phrase it's in.

Say if my keyword was to be 'dog bowl' and I just had 'dog bowl - dog bowl | dog bowl' in my title, that will get penalised. If had 'dog bowl - Custom dog bowl | dog bowl limited' then it's three different phrases, the first and second being primary and secondary keywords.

Be smart and think, and use your title to inform the user what the page is