Is This Worth Fixing?

[94501]

Hi,

I'm working on a site that was last optimized some years ago. It has a fair number of pages that the url, h1, title tag and image alt exact match. Although this comes back as A+ in Moz's on page grader,  it seems a bit much.

What do you think, is all this too heavy an SEO fingerprint for Google?

[94501]

HI Erica,

It's not on the page too many times, it's just relentlessly exact-matched between h1, url, title tag and img alt, but I guess that's okay.

Thanks

[EricaMcGillivray]

No, if you put the keyword too many times, the page grader will give you a bad grade.

[94501]

Hi Erica,

Thanks for the message. Whaddya mean... the page grader gives it an "A" for the keyword it hammered?

Thanks...

[NEdocs]

Very true.

[EricaMcGillivray]

The page grader will give you a bad grade if you keyword stuff.

[NEdocs]

Sounds like it should be fine. Unless Google slaps you for keyword stuffing you haven't done anything wrong...hell it could even be argued you are using a best practice. As long as the URL, H1, title tag, and image are relevant and accurately depict the keyword you are golden.

If anything, you may want to strengthen your keyword strategy and work in some synonyms in there...catch a few more eyes and rank for additional keywords. This can also help to water down the super optimized pages and make it feel a bit safer.

Hope that helps,

Christopher