I’m glad that has been cleared up because I was perplexed with it all.

Gary

I just investigated your issue.

You were not doing anything wrong.

(2) of our editors didn’t handle your article review correctly. They’ve been notified of the mistake to prevent it in the future.

Sorry.

When I have an article accepted and then it gets taken down for a “problem,” after a week of strong views, most of the time I have no idea which part is the “offending” part and I just have to guess and re-submit. So, in effect, I am “de-sensitising” in the dark, hoping that what I am doing will make the article good.

I just got pinged for a “bloat.” I thought it maybe three words in my title being bolded at the end of the article, so I unbolded (is that a word?) them.

Did the article get isolated because somebody reported it or did it trip a meter because it got too many views in too short a time? I just don’t understand how it can get approved and then after a week it can get disapproved.

Maybe I’ll have to purchase one of those massage tables to massage my articles into shape in future. I dunno. I’m just being frivolous now because I don’t use any software to get the keyword thing 0.01% under the maximum allowed “abuse.” I just write naturally.

I totally agree that the massage table commentary above is utterly ridiculous. Articles like that are the same as verbal stuttering but done deliberately and they are nonsense.

Gary

Conjunctions or what I call “junk words” are not included in any of our calculations.

The new tool we introduced earlier this week:

http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2008/02/help-for-accidental-keyphrase-abuse.html
…Is designed to take the guess-work out of helping you know which keyphrase or keyword our editor thought was repeated too much.

Keyword abuse is a much small issue vs. Keyphrase repetition. The greater majority of our issue is with keyphrases being over-used to the point where it becomes unnatural.

Many others have expressed those exact feelings. Everything I’ve read suggests very strongly that Google is doing all it can to discourage key word stuffing or any tactic which is intended to artificially improve Page Rank.

It is important to note that Google, while being on top of the heap now, has to operate in a very competitive environment. New search engine technologies are being developed all the time which could challenge Google’s dominance.

By creating new rules Google has recognized that uses want results which truly represent the search terms they have entered. Their new rules designed to help ensure that their SERP will provide contextually relevant content. This is exactly what Google’s competitors are trying to do as well.

Irrespective of who wins the Search Engine Wars, all of us who write articles will have to play by their rules and it’s pretty much guaranteed that those rules will continue to change and to survive we must do so as well.

I feel alone in the dark in this thread.

There’s so much concern about keyword density, percentage of keywords in headers and other forms of SEO arcania.

First, no one knows for certain what Google’s latest algo is looking for. They change the darn thing hourly.

Second, stated in a previous post, the significance of SEO, and therefore keyword density, have diminished considerably in this age of RSS, syndicated content, directories, blogs and other access routes to a site.

I’ve been spending a lot less time worrying about keywords and more time trying to build connectivity within my site’s topical neighborhood.

Site visitors find my site and services through syndicated content, hosted content, guest blogging and other SEM tactics.

SEO is dead as a useful means of growing a site to success.

Just one man’s opinion.
Paul Lalley
webwordslinger.com
editor.wordsinc@gmail.com

Thanks for your time.
PL

That’s not keyword abuse.

Using the word “CREDIT” 29 times in a 722 word article might be considered excessive, especially if it destroys the readability of your sentence structure.

(6) uses of the keyphrase “CREDIT SCORE” in a 722 word article is NOT abuse. You’ve followed the 1 or fewer keyphrase per 100 words abuse guideline.

Another litmus test to use is this: Did I over-use a keyword in any single sentence? ie: Did I use the word “Credit” 3-5 times in a single sentence? That would be abuse. In your case it doesn’t appear to be too repetitive.

I just submitted an article and listed three key words:
Credit, Credit Repair, Credit Score

I understand about the body of the article but would this be considered abuse since I used the word ‘credit’ in all three keyword terms?

Thanks,
Brian

Well I read that MASSAGE TABLE example and it was one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen. Who would want to read junk like that?

I mean, I can understand that some people want to rank higher for keywords but really, it’s pretty unintelligent if you think a REAL person is gonna put up with reading the same words over and over again. Or over and over again. Or over and… well, you probably get the idea.

Write for people not machines.

Regards

Gary