Keyword stuffing when brand includes keyword

[Dan-Lawrence]

Thanks for your input David!

The copy does conform to that, it all reads naturally.  It hasnt been written with any seo in mind and im about to edit for seo but think good to remove a few instances and change copy

[BruceA]

Hi

We have a similar problem, but as a retail store selling Brands.  Often Moz shows us keyword stuffing possible problems, but as the brand name is in the product title, it is really hard to drop the level of mentions.

Example: XXX Brand and Keyword.  Product XXX  Trousers.  Image XXXX-150011409900-F.jpg

If we then create lovely natural content using the Keyword a few times, we are up to 20 keywords before we even add the content tree.

A tricky problem for Brand based keywords, but in very niche markets the Brand is critical as part of the end user search.

We are not 100% sure about how to deal with this ourselves, a few experiments have removed key search terms and we have had to put them back in as the impressions in GWT dropped 75% without them.

Any other experiences and possible solutions would be really useful

Bruce

[Dan-Lawrence]

Thanks for your comment Bruce, interesting to hear

I would really love to think & would truly hope that Google was clever enough to not apply filters to pages such as yours since its pretty unavoidable, and even misleading, to not include the brand multiple times on a brand specific product page.

Its sounds like (if i understand you correctly) from your experiments, that Google is preferring brand kw inclusion if you are losing impressions by removing brand kw instances.

All Best

Dan

[BruceA]

Hi Dan

From what we can see so far, taking out the Keywords dropped impressions over the course of a week.  We put them back in but reduced the instances as per Moz page checker.  We are still over the recommended level of keywords, so we will see what happens over the next period.

Due to various issues that we cannot resolve via normal SEO techniques we are rebuilding our online site, but we are planning to reduce the amount of products on a page and removing Alt image tags where possible.  We used the correct Alt image tag as a way to catalogue the images internally but this doubles the Keyword count instantly

What we have found with Brand searches, that customers find us via text searches or via image searches, as they might not know the style code, but know the brand and will click through via the image.

It would be great if we could register the nature of our business with Google in a way which is not so subtle as them having to work out we are retailers and this is a shopping site.

Will keep the post updated with new results as the appear.

Bruce

[Dan-Lawrence]

Good info cheers Bruce !

Pls do keep me/this thread in da loop im sure of general interest to everybody here and certainly of specific interest to me since, whilst my post is originally in regard to a client, i am soon to relaunch my very out of date online store, so very interested in any findings you may like to share

On a side note, when you say image searches do you mean on Google or on your site search ? If Google image search do you use some sort of a frame breaker plugin to bring them straight through to the site from the image ? (i dont know of one off hand but have very recently heard of them so thought worth mentioning)

All Very Best

Dan

[ProductPearson]

If Google catches you doing the frame breaker, you will be blacklisted.

[Dan-Lawrence]

really ? cheers for the heads up if so but have heard of reputable peeps using and recommending it

[BruceA]

Hi Dan

Google Images, we don't use any plugin as this is not needed.  Google is excellent at picking up new content and images from our site, hence why we ensured the Alt Tags where used properly, using more narrative in the Alt Description to properly paraphrase the content of the image.  The image links are already in the crawl results.Normally images appear on Google Images in about 48 hours after we post themBruce

[ProductPearson]

He means when you click an image on Google images, that it navigates to the website instead of opening in Google Image's search. (I think)

[Dan-Lawrence]

i did