internetheaven - 6:16 pm on Aug 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

I've seen what I felt was the co-occurrence of too many synonyms in onpage body text apparently lead to a -950 situation.

Sadly, I keep coming back to that one too for some ranking issues on some sites. But then I think, "surely not".

The existence of an Over-Optimisation-Filter -- like so many bad SEO's keep banging on about to explain their failings (i.e. "we were too goo at our job, sorry!") -- would mean that the most comprehensive, most organised and most explanatory pages would not rank properly. That seems insane.

It is only logical to have synonyms on a page with good, extensive content. Penalising a page for having too many synonyms would mean sites like WebmasterWorld wouldn't rank well for it's pages ... doesn't it?

Now, percentage of synonyms ... that a whole different thing that I keep my tin-foil hat on for ... ;)