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I understand that more comments and replies to comments translate to better SEO ranking. What I'm confused about is whether that's for your overall site or if it's just for tha
I understand that more comments and replies to comments translate to better SEO ranking. What I'm confused about is whether that's for your overall site or if it's just for tha
Comments will help by constantly adding fresh content to your page and it also shows engagement when you reply which is also good for SEO however, that alone will not get you a page 1 ranking.
Google is looking to display the most relevant pages for the search query, period and there are many factors taken into consideration that they use to determine that.
Well said. Google and other search engines determine that websites that are actively getting engagement on their sites, are websites that have authority.
It is not as much about a "comment" as not all comments are created equal, but it is dialogue within the actual content.
On top of this a comment and engagement within a post will build a lot of trust as it will show that you are actively communicating with others and you are a REAL person.
I understand that there's more to it than just comments. But my direct question was whether quality comments and engagement improve the ranking (however slight) of all pages or just the one that the comment is on.
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I'm thinking about posting an article by the end of this week and I'm having a thought about keywords. I know you're supposed to stick to one keyword and then write naturally.
Imagine you write about best rated outdoor boots on Amazon, this is the targeted keyword. So your text must contain a number of them. Each of them is yet another keyword. There is nothing unusual in this, no need to think about any punishment from Google.
Who is experienced here Jude? You are too kind.
I just saw a blog by a member who came 8 years ago (you commented there as well), and Daniel commenting as yet another dinosaur, those are experienced guys. But thank you, very kind.
So question for both of you then. How does Google notice the difference between Keyword stuffing and natural writing? It sounds like you can theoretically "stuff" as many keywords as you want, so long as you can write a coherent paragraph.
In one lesson Kyle says explicitly that you can rank for hundreds of (key)words. This is so and earlier in Webmaster it was possible to see this, but they removed the option probably a year ago or so, I wrote a post about it. So yes as many as you want, but you should always target one and use it following best practices.
See example from my blog here at WA, a year ago, ranking through many keywords and some of them are not mine at all, they came through comments: Ranking by many keywords So perhaps Google does not make difference between all of them. The point is that by targeting one only, you want to point to Google clearly what the post is about, and they will take a note.
You will inevitably use other relevant keywords when writing naturally about a topic - it's almost impossible not to. Having said that, I would not imagine that Google would consider that to be KW-stuffing but maybe someone more experienced can answer for definite :)
Thanks Jude. I'm having trouble getting to the first page of Google (and consequently any organic traffic) and I thought this might improve my odds.
If I can do this by accident and not get penalized, I'm sure there's a way to write so Google doesn't flag it as keyword stuffing.
I am not sure if this is considered keyword stuffing or not, but I have read several times that keyword stuffing is frowned upon by Google. I will be checking back to see what others have to say. Great question!
Kara Grace :))
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Can you insert multiple keywords and still write naturally?
I'm thinking about posting an article by the end of this week and I'm having a thought about keywords. I know you're supposed to stick to one keyword and then write naturally.
Imagine you write about best rated outdoor boots on Amazon, this is the targeted keyword. So your text must contain a number of them. Each of them is yet another keyword. There is nothing unusual in this, no need to think about any punishment from Google.
Who is experienced here Jude? You are too kind.
I just saw a blog by a member who came 8 years ago (you commented there as well), and Daniel commenting as yet another dinosaur, those are experienced guys. But thank you, very kind.
So question for both of you then. How does Google notice the difference between Keyword stuffing and natural writing? It sounds like you can theoretically "stuff" as many keywords as you want, so long as you can write a coherent paragraph.
In one lesson Kyle says explicitly that you can rank for hundreds of (key)words. This is so and earlier in Webmaster it was possible to see this, but they removed the option probably a year ago or so, I wrote a post about it. So yes as many as you want, but you should always target one and use it following best practices.
See example from my blog here at WA, a year ago, ranking through many keywords and some of them are not mine at all, they came through comments: Ranking by many keywords So perhaps Google does not make difference between all of them. The point is that by targeting one only, you want to point to Google clearly what the post is about, and they will take a note.
You will inevitably use other relevant keywords when writing naturally about a topic - it's almost impossible not to. Having said that, I would not imagine that Google would consider that to be KW-stuffing but maybe someone more experienced can answer for definite :)
Thanks Jude. I'm having trouble getting to the first page of Google (and consequently any organic traffic) and I thought this might improve my odds.
If I can do this by accident and not get penalized, I'm sure there's a way to write so Google doesn't flag it as keyword stuffing.
I am not sure if this is considered keyword stuffing or not, but I have read several times that keyword stuffing is frowned upon by Google. I will be checking back to see what others have to say. Great question!
Kara Grace :))
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Comments will help by constantly adding fresh content to your page and it also shows engagement when you reply which is also good for SEO however, that alone will not get you a page 1 ranking.
Google is looking to display the most relevant pages for the search query, period and there are many factors taken into consideration that they use to determine that.
Well said. Google and other search engines determine that websites that are actively getting engagement on their sites, are websites that have authority.
It is not as much about a "comment" as not all comments are created equal, but it is dialogue within the actual content.
On top of this a comment and engagement within a post will build a lot of trust as it will show that you are actively communicating with others and you are a REAL person.
I understand that there's more to it than just comments. But my direct question was whether quality comments and engagement improve the ranking (however slight) of all pages or just the one that the comment is on.