Keyword Stuffing

Keyword Stuffing: Webmasters sometimes load pages with an excessive amount of keywords. Here are descriptions of what you might see:

• Keywords repeated many times on the page

• Words that are related to keywords repeated many times on the page

• Multiple misspellings of keywords on the page

• Pages with a large amount of what look like gibberish or random keywords.

• Pages that appear to be programmatically or automatically generated text that doesn't really make sense.

Webmasters also sometimes load pages with irrelevant keywords on topics that are unrelated to the query, such as mortgages, cell phones, ringtones, gambling, weather, etc. Whether the keywords are related or unrelated to the query, the intent is to draw search engines and users to the page.

It is sometimes difficult to decide when the keywords on a page should be considered keyword stuffing. We ask you to consider a page to be spam if you think the number of keywords on the page is excessive and would be annoying and distracting to the real user.

Please note: Hidden text and keyword stuffing often go together. Hidden text frequently contains keyword stuffing.

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