Since the development of Search Engine Optimization as a concept, there has been an obvious temptation for some people to try to cheat the system. Because the whole premise of SEO is that keywords create cash, the idea occurred to a lot of people that this could be taken to the extreme, and can best be summed up as: “If they want keyword volume, then we’ll give them keyword volume”. This tends to occur in the shape of website text that contains nothing but keywords (this practice is known as “Keyword Stuffing”). It’s keywords on steroids, and just like using steroids in sport it is still regarded as cheating.
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Is There Such A Thing As Too Much SEO?
It is obviously not easy to write good, SEO-compliant content for a website and still have a standard of content which will impress your readers, and this often shows in the more amateurish attempts at writing a website. One mistake a lot of people make is in thinking that the more they use a keyword, the better it will be for their website. This often results in the writer frequently using the keyword once every other sentence or a similar density. Their reasoning is understandable. If some SEO is good, then a lot of SEO will surely be excellent?
Can You Use SEO And Still Write Well?
It becomes immediately obvious to someone who has a fair understanding of the principles of SEO that the use of it can present a problem. The more you use the right keywords, and a fair quantity of them, the likelier it is that Google will pick your site up and give it a good ranking. However, the more you use the right keywords, the less room there is for all the other things you want to say, and the less freedom to say things exactly how you would like to.
