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SEO Speedwagon, or how I’ve learned to please the SEO gods without giving up big words


Is good writing antithetical to SEO?

I’ve only come to think about these kinds of concepts since switching to Wordpress and noticing that one of the top plugins is an alleged omnipotent SEO tool.

But then, after I read this recent Poynter Online Writing Tools, my first thought was, Yes! I always try to do that (“…not repeat a distinctive word unless you intend a specific effect”) in my writing, no matter the medium. And then, my second thought, very shortly after the first, was, But SEO seems to encourage using the same words over and over, if you want to count. Or rank. Or be counted and ranked.

I guess that’s the real value in the plugins that allow you to customize title tags and other tags – you don’t have to repeat words in your entries or posts ad nauseum, so long as you use them in your tags. But I still don’t really even understand tags so much.

Luckily, thanks to tags, whatever they are, I can still use all the words, long or short, that I want, without being penalized by the SEO gods.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:02 pm September 16th, 2007 in Blogging, Writing 

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2 Responses to “SEO Speedwagon, or how I’ve learned to please the SEO gods without giving up big words”

  1. 1 Jeff Hess on September 18th, 2007 8:24 am

    Shalom Jill,

    Oy. The things I could tell you about hidden keywords in posts.

    B’shalom,

    Jeff

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on September 18th, 2007 9:28 am

    Ok – like – all the bad words that have nothing to do with what people write about? I don’t even know where to find them. lol

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