{"id":1944,"date":"2014-09-10T14:40:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T18:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2015-05-05T03:44:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T07:44:52","slug":"bing-url-keyword-stuffing-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/bing-url-keyword-stuffing-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Bing URL keyword stuffing penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally Bing is going after spammers for keyword stuffing in their URLs to gain higher rankings. Keyword stuffing in URLs is common these days. Search engines have used various methods to combat this spam. Keywords in URLs have always been a ranking factor in search engines. It has long been believed Search engines like Google, bing give good weight-age for keywords in URLs. But many SEO spammers have taken advantage of it and are spamming the search engines with sub domain keyword stuffing and other aggressive spammy methods.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If you read the post here you can very well understand how well Bing combats this spam without damaging the reputation of good sites.<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/blogs.bing.com\/webmaster\/2014\/09\/09\/url-keyword-stuffing-spam-filtering\/<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the ranking signals they use to detect this spam are reported in their blog<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I mentioned in the previous blog, we will not be giving out specific details on detection algorithms because spammers are likely to use that knowledge to evolve their techniques. I can, however, tell you that we look at a number of signals that suggest possible use of URL keyword stuffing, such as:<\/strong><\/p>\n