Keyword Stuffing Issues

[PurpleGriffon]

Hi Folks,

At this URL https://purplegriffon.com/courses/project-management/prince2 as an example, you can see that I am outputting all course dates in a table. Each table row contains information regarding the specific course such as start date, duration, location but also course title. In the course title it will obviously contain the keyword, in this example that is 'prince2'.

So my question is this. As the MOZ on-page grader indicates that I am keyword stuffing (even though I receive an A grade) will Google be clever enough to know that I am displaying a table of events for PRINCE2? Or will it class the page as containing too many keywords?

Each event links to a specific event page for that event, so is unique.

I am interested in hearing the thoughts of the community on this. Thanks.

Regards

Gareth

[Leonie-Kramer]

Hi, I used to have the same on a project i managed. There where a lot of pages with keywordstuffing, with the same reason as your page. Selling a product with lot's of variations. I leaved it the way it was. Like you said althoug the keyword stuffing, pages had an A-grade an ranked very well in Google ( top 5) never had any problem with it.

I did ad a lot of other content to the page like:  text, images and later video's.

Grtz, Leonie

[RobertJakobson]

Hi Gareth,

that's a very beautiful website in terms of the SEO work your team has put in: breadcrumbs, semantic markup etc. Google understands tabular data very well (even inside PDFs or Excel files) and doesn't consider it spamming.

Accidentally I have had lengthy lists of items rank very well previously. You should be doubly safe since you already have the Education Event semantic markup wrapping every table row.

Looking forward, don't think keywords will be the issue. Google is aiming more and more towards understanding the usability of each page. Personally, I would test different versions shortening this list (pagination, tabs) for conversions.

Generally, there are just too many big corporate websites with duplicate content and repetitive keywords for Google to automatically degrade one's site for what SEO software finds problematic in these areas. Matt Cutts as said as much.

[PurpleGriffon]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the great response and for the complements on the SEO work completed so far. Though I wish it was a team that implemented it all but it was in fact just me who designed, developed and SEO'ed the website. So thank you, that's a big complement.

I had a feeling that this would be OK, so thanks for clarifying it for me.

Regards

Gareth

[PurpleGriffon]

Hi Leonie,

Thanks for the response and clarifying the position for me. Much appreciated.

Regards

Gareth