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Hi, I'm not certain at all, buts it’s the only thing that has
been changed on the page. It could be a case of Google readjusting, or not
related at all.

I was just hoping to hear from users who had implemented similar changes. Hopefully by Monday the page will be back in the same position it was yesterday.

Thanks

Jos

3 or 4 !, I have always strugggled to get the keyword mentions that low. I'm talking about removing 7 out of 40 refrences!! I wanted to remove more but i was worried that we might see a drop (and we have). Maybe its down to somtheing else. I will be keeping a close eye over the weekend

Out of interest when you say 3 or 4, is that just body text or do you count the h1 h2 etc

Thanks again

Jos

It seems to be a bit dangerous to describe the Avoid Keyword
Stuffing in Document reccomendation as high importance if its not proven to be of benefit.

Maybe its should be downgraded to an optional factor?

Hi Thanks for the reply, yes i remember that post and it shows the importance of the point.

I would never stuff a page with keywords, and i would like to think no self respecting content writer would, but in some cases there is only one way to describe a product and you can naturally end up with a large ammount of mentions of a particular product on one page.

I'm just not sure where the figure of 15 has come from because surely it should be more based on a percentage than an over all figure.

Anyway, i would really like to here any other examples of user users trying to stick with the under 15 keywords rule

I have been implementing changes to our site outlined by the
on-page report tool. One of the most common issues it highlighted with our site
was Avoid Keyword
Stuffing in Document. I have started reducing the number of
keywords on each page so it falls under the recommended 15. So far we haven’t
seen any positive effects from this and i am a little concerned we might be
seeing some negative effect (very early days).

Has anyone else implemented this change recently and what effect
did it have?

Is this recommendation more in preparation to the up and coming
update from Google that will penalise over optimised sites?

Any info much appreciated

Jos Davies