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Lower Keyword Focus To Improve Search Engine Rankings

100% Organic - A Column From Search Engine Land Before November of 2003 it was easy to rank well in Google for just about anything just by using the keywords in your anchor text and plastering the term everywhere in your page copy. I appreciate that, knowing that back then I ranked in Google's top 10 results for search engine marketing without knowing much about the topic. As time passed it became clear that Google began to look for natural and unnatural patterns, and what I was doing did not fit the mold.

In a recent 100% Organic column, Jill Whalen wrote you can't OVER optimize, which is true, but what put you at the top of the search results a few years back might get your site filtered out of the search results now. We all look back and say we predicted some of the trends, but after the Florida update some of the people who claimed it was no big deal also learned to change with the algorithms to remain relevant.

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100% Organic - A Column From Search Engine Land
Before November of 2003 it was easy to rank well in Google for just about anything just by using the keywords in your anchor text and plastering the term everywhere in your page copy. I appreciate that, knowing that back then I ranked in Google’s top 10 results for search engine marketing without knowing much about the topic. As time passed it became clear that Google began to look for natural and unnatural patterns, and what I was doing did not fit the mold.

In a recent 100% Organic column, Jill Whalen wrote you can’t OVER optimize, which is true, but what put you at the top of the search results a few years back might get your site filtered out of the search results now. We all look back and say we predicted some of the trends, but after the Florida update some of the people who claimed it was no big deal also learned to change with the algorithms to remain relevant.

Click to continue reading…