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Keyword stuffing is a search engine optimization (SEO) technique, considered webspam or spamdexing, in which keywords are loaded into a web page's meta tags, visible content, or backlink anchor text in an attempt to gain an unfair rank advantage in search engines. Keyword stuffing may lead to a website being temporarily or permanently banned or penalized on major search engines.[1] The repetition of words in meta tags may explain why many search engines no longer use these tags. Nowadays, search engines focus more on the content that is unique, comprehensive, relevant, and helpful that overall makes the quality better which makes keyword stuffing useless, but it is still practiced by many webmasters.[citation needed]
Many major search engines have implemented algorithms that recognize keyword stuffing, and reduce or eliminate any unfair search advantage that the tactic may have been intended to gain, and oftentimes they will also penalize, demote or remove websites from their indexes that implement keyword stuffing.
Changes and algorithms specifically intended to penalize or ban sites using keyword stuffing include the Google Florida update (November 2003) Google Panda (February 2011)[2] Google Hummingbird (August 2013)[3] and Bing's September 2014 update.[4]
^Irrelevant keywords, Google Keyword Quality Guidelines
^The Panda That Hates Farms: A Q&A With Google’s Top Search Engineers, Wired.com, March 3, 2011
^All About the New Google "Hummingbird" Update, SearchEngineLand.com.com, September 26, 2013
^Bing URL Stuffing Spam Filtering, Bing.com Blogs, September 10, 2014
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