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Writing Tip: Keyword Stuffing is NOT SEO

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The old SEO tip about using keywords never was intended to mean writers should use the same word or combination of words in ever sentence. Keyword stuffing was NEVER a good writing technique and it was never part of proper SEO techniques. Stuffing keywords into every sentence did fool the search engine robots for a little while into ranking key-word stuffed articles a little higher, but those days were over YEARS AGO when robots became more intelligent. Now Google will penalize any articles that use keyword stuffing as well as the site those black-hat keyword stuffing articles appear on. And if you want to know what keyword stuffing is, just look at how many times I used the words keyword stuffing in the first two paragraphs. And I still see it frequently in blogs. A few years ago, Google developed an algorithm  called "Latent Semantic Indexing." It looks for related terms, and use of synonyms. Articles that insert the same words over and over will absolutely be pen