Keywords Based On Website Content - Problem

[RishiRich]

Dear Members

I am facing this strange issue. I put my URL in Google's Keyword Tool to check the list of keywords it came up for my website.

To my surprise it came up with the most rubbish keywords list one would ever see.

My main keywords that were in the Title, Keywords, Description, Header Tags and Content were not included at all. I have not been able to diagnose the problem.

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Rishi

[dusky]

Not too sure about this as it happened to us on a couple of sites, it's probably due to over optimization, using the keywords everywhere, particularly if they are of big importance, related to a large industry or coasting on trademark issues BUT no quite infringing any in that sense. I have one site which suffers from the same problem, the keyword Widget is in the domain, the main titles, the H1 tag and in most of the forum threads and directory categories (Titles and URLs as a secondary keyword, example: Used Widgets, Large widgets...). I hear de-optimization may do the trick but could take months to remedy the problem slowly. Apparently this is what I call a deliberate handicap filter, you probably at one time even for few days or weeks outranked very powerful sites and corporations etc, G* would get the wrap for it if they don't apply that filter.

[tedster]

If you are looking at the tool's assessment of your site's keywords but your actual search traffic is good and coming in from appropriate searches, then don't worry about it.

But if your actual traffic shows that you are not ranking well on appropriate keywords, then you may well have gone over the top with "optimization".

[pavlovapete]

Try this:

Copy the body text into a new text file. Ideally you should have a couple of hundred words - I've found this method fails if there are not enough words.

Don't include side bar navigation, footer, etc. Don't include boiler-plate text.

Put the text into a bare-bones simple HTML page. Upload the page to your website.

Now point the keyword tool at the simple HTML page.

The results are entirely different and very interesting.

Cheers

[RishiRich]

I have tried everything but the tool does not bring the list of keyword i am targeting.

I am targeting 3 keywords on a single page. The site ranks well for a single keyword that appears in the list of suggested keywords by Adwords Keyword Tool but for the rest 2 it fails to rank

I put the text using simple HTML tags, but still it does not show related keywords. Instead it shows a list of generalized keywords. I have broken the keywords to 3 different pages but still the tool does not show them in the list of keyword list. I think there is some serious error with Google.

[Reno]

...I hear de-optimization may do the trick...
...you may well have gone over the top with "optimization"...

In other words, try not to be so competent -- in Googleworld, your abilities work against you. Act like you're an idiot and you may very well prosper.

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