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2007-05-13

Another Copycat SWARM Project Tester Misses The Mark

Another Copycat SWARM Project Tester Misses The Mark

I saw it again today and my heart stopped in my mouth. Someone had tried their hand at search engine optimization in their blog entry. It was easy to spot with all those underlined, linked keywords.

FIVE keyword phrases repeated over and over again in a 276 wordentry.

TWENTY-TWO times these keyword phrases appeared and each timeI read them my heart sank for this writer who thought they were following solid based information on search engine optimization. Was it just another copycat SWARM Project tester that missed the mark?

Did they pick up their concept from "old" material that is not only outdated but no longer correct for proper page optimization? The "old" way was no more than 3% keyword inclusion based on 300 words minimum. Today, if your page is themed, then the inclusion can be 2-5% preferably closer to 2% keyword inclusion for best optimization and again, no more than THREE relative keyword phrases maximum.

Keyword Stuffing

Keyword Stuffing involves the repeated use of a word or phrase in an attempt to increase a page's relevancy. This is considered spamming by the search engines.

Keyword saturation within the allowed boundaries is a must unless you wish to face keyword stuffing penalties. For the uninformed or copycat SWARM Project testers, the first thing you would discover in our teachings, is that keyword stuffing, linking of all the chosen keywords to the same or only a couple of links is considered paramount to overkill and opening your page and even your whole site to the proverbial Google slap.

Since search engines would never publish the exact numbers for maximally allowed keyword frequency or keyword prominence, all we can do is just study top pages in SERPs and make more or less informed guesses. Nevertheless, for the uninformed to take such license by guesswork or something they read somewhere is not the way to earn the favored ear of any search engine let alone build the hope o fnatural search engine traffic.

The SWARM Project teaches the boundaries of search engine algorithms and can put you on the top three pages immediately. Your work will earn you that position and your upgrades will increase the likelihood of your staying on top.

Anyone can gray hat, black hat or use by-guess-and-by-golly attempts to thwart the rules and get an instant ranking .. but it won't last once the spiders get a chance to check you out. The worse part is that one offense, singular, by accident or design can cost you ONE WHOLE YEAR before you will be spidered again. Is it worth it to guess?

The SWARM Project is a six-week intensive course that moves with you.

Your commitment to your own success means you win from day one. NO penalties and NO waiting to be recognized. As you learn and do your ranking moves UP not backwards into oblivion.

Increase Web Traffic or Increase Web Sales?

Your web site goals fall into one of two categories: 1) You want to increase targeted web traffic. 2) You want to take web traffic and convert more sales.

In either case, you get to decide .. one year banned or red flagged for taking a chance, or a 6 week intensive course on search engine optimization that will at the very least save you from cutting your own throat by making accidental bad decisions or being down right too lazy to learn.

Fran Klasinski
SEO Basics

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