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Keywords are Good for SEO, Keyword Stuffing is Not

To understand SEO fully, you need to understand the importance of keywords and get familiar with terms like 'keyword stuffing' or 'spamdexing'. You want your website to have SEO-optimised content, and include keywords that people might be looking for on search engines like Google.  However, don't stuff your writing with too many keywords. You might put yourself into trouble that way.  How, you ask?  Well, let me explain. What is Keyword Stuffing? Keyword stuffing is (or better say was) an SEO technique used by web designers to stuff extra keywords onto a web page. This is (was) done so that search engines will rank the page higher in a web search. Search engines scan web pages looking for the keywords that you enter.  Let's say I look up on Google for handmade soaps.  The more times the words 'handmade soaps' appears on a web page, the higher the ranking the search engine gives that page.  But, wait!  Thi...