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Use many keyword phrases without spamming

         

jacven

9:18 pm on Feb 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Hello all I want to add many keyword phrases to my actual site, they are around 50/80 of them. I know there is some way like adding to the body and using white color like and making it almost transparent to the user. But I wonder if this is a good way or there are some others.

Thanks.

tedster

1:49 am on Feb 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

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That approach breaks Google's guidelines and it IS a kind of spamming. If you want to be found for certain phrases, then build real content that uses those phrases -- on the page and/or in anchor text pointing to the page.

crobb305

4:17 pm on Feb 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

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You're talking about using hidden text & keyword stuffing. Both are bad and very old spamming techniques. Search Google for the consequences of using either of these methods. You mention having only 50 to 80 phrases that you are really targeting. Why not write a couple of useful, informative paragraphs that somehow use the words throughout the body? Google will index you for phrases created from a combination of words found throughout the page. To learn about this, maybe search google or Webmasterworld for information about targeting "longtail phrases".

Robert Charlton

7:30 am on Feb 26, 2007 (gmt 0)

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jacven - Not only are the techniques you suggest spammy... but it's not likely that they'll actually work, certainly not as a long term strategy.

Ultimately, for a page to range on anything competitive, it's got to have content that's actually about your target phrases, and that's good enough to attract relevant inbound links. If your optimizing terms are hidden and you don't have link-worthy content, it's not likely that potential linkers will know what your page is about, let alone link to it.

And Google... which is developing various kinds of linguistic analysis... isn't likely to see an assortment of 50-80 phrases to actually be about anything.

buckworks

1:46 am on Mar 5, 2007 (gmt 0)

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If the OP wants to target certain phrases, I would strongly second Tedster's advice to build real content around the desired phrases. Don't waste energy on five-year-old sneaky tricks.

Don't just scatter key phrases any old place. You'll get farther with both SEO and Adsense if your pages have a really tight focus.