So the density ranking algorithms often do not highlight the best candidates, but rather, the most annoying candidates, the ones who have learned to gussy up a feeble work history with dozens of buzzwords and
keywords stuffed into extraneous paragraphs.
Not exact matches
This does not mean you should
stuff every possible
keyword combination
into this line.
We don't want to
stuff or force
keywords into our text.
This is because people used to «
stuff»
keywords into the title field e.g. «Paranormal romance with a noir detective twist.»
Keyword stuffing is when you go a little overboard trying to pack your
keywords into one page.
Savvy web developers started
stuffing keywords into their websites to rank for the searches they wanted to rank for.
If you jam too many
keywords into a web page, Google may disfavor you for engaging in «
keyword stuffing.»
However, don't just
stuff these
keywords into your release.
That means I would target a
keyword (think cufflinks), I would build a website for that
keyword, I would create traffic for that website (this is where SEO came
into play) and then I would sell
stuff on the site.
I routinely run
into people who believe that SEO is no more than
stuffing keywords into the meta tags or title tags, or that if you * gasp *
stuff keywords into your marketing copy you'll get to the top of search results.
Recently, Google started filtering and lowering the rankings of sites that overused exact match anchors both on and off site, and those sites that overused, or «
stuffed»
keywords into the content.
irrelevant and immaterial
stuff gets
into the stream; filtering by
keywords at the simple level I'm on means that junk gets in;
The device's microphones are always at the ready, listening for your chosen
keyword; if you
stuff it
into a closet or hide it behind a couch, it might have trouble listening for that
keyword.
If you deliberately
stuff keywords into your resume or use a bunch of annoying buzzwords, it will be painfully obvious to the recruiter — not to mention a big turnoff.
As more and more companies use ATS in the same way more and more job hunters tend to
stuff their application documents with relevant
keywords, hoping it will help them get
into an interview stage.
Even with the rise of applicant tracking systems (ATS),
stuffing as many
keywords as possible
into your resume is not recommended.