SEO Poor Taste Violation
Spammy URL due to Keyword Stuffing.
Well I did not expect to see a major search engine engaging in URL Stuffing but here it is:
http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/webmaster/archive/2009/06/19/links-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-part-2-sem-101.aspx
Wooh Dude ! Lighten up Bing, having more than about 5 hyphens in a Stub is an indication there might be a spammy story there. You have 11 hyphens in that URL. I would vote on it if I had time but in this case I’ll have to act as if I were Judge Dred:
I hereby convict you of an SEO bad taste violation having found you guilty of issuing a Spam URL. I therefore have no choice but to sentence you for 1 count of a poor taste violation using Spam in your URL needlessly in order to stuff keywords. Bad Bing, Bad.
OK will a spammy URL get you a Google Penalty?
I tend to look at something like this not as a penalty but in the light of not being a good move. A URL gives you a chance to give feed a Google Spider with exactly what it craves… relevance ! Google wants to find a relevance match with the searchers phrase and the URL, the meta title, the meta description, the img alt tags, the H1 and H2 tags on the page and the content of course. When all these stars are in alignment the Google Heavens may shine down on you and grant you high ranking for the relevant phrase. But you can blow the whole image of relevant purity and spam that URL to death and loose the chance you had to impress the next Google Spider with a real tasty and relevant treat.
The moral of this story is: Don’t Spam your URL’s… keyword stuffing anywhere is bad. It might not hurt you with any kind of a penalty… but it definitely won’t help you and it might blow your shot at setting up a perfectly juicy piece of spider food that is wholesome and incredibly relevant.
