Does this help or hamper

[Urban Publications]

We have all seen them go, onto a web page and at the bottom the designer has tried to cram in as many keywords related to the business

ie

Red Widgets Here, Red Widgets There, Red Widgets Anywhere, Red Widgets heretoo

No links, just irrelevant text, surely this is on a fine line to spamming SE's, even if they were links are these people trying to hard to rank and causing more damage than good.

To be honest I cannot stand the sight of the dam things but does it have any positive or negative results.

 

[Normansmith]

At one time it was thought to help But then the LSI effect took over, no relevant words surrounding these words, i suspect SE give them little if any attention. Tests on some of my sites seem to suggest it's just for the spammers, no benefit, so let them waste their time, so they are not wasting ours.. It's not exactly quality content is it !

 

[seoswat]

Some search engines benefit from this more than others, but at same time, some search engines devalue your site / page more than others.

Personally i would only add the keywords if they are truly relevant and are not seen to be spamming the page

 

[Urban Publications]

I was just surfing and came across a site with just untold amount and I thought "WTF why do you bother", it was a local website, that had each area of the city in...havent you come across google local you numpty.

It does make the page look awful and poor content, agreed.

It looks like they are optimising for AOL search from the days the internet was first launched. I was surprised not to see scrolling text in the lower left of the browser window and coloured scrollbars.)

 

[fisicx]

At one time it was thought to help But then the LSI effect took over

Don't you mean semantic indexing? As far as I know Google isn't using LSI for mainstream indexing. If they are then I've missed the blog posts because nothing I've read in the lat 12 months even suggested it's part of the algo.

Note: they may use some of the LSI theory but are not using SVD which is at the core of the process.

 

[SimonAntonySEO]

A year or two ago that would have worked nowadays Google is getting so good it may actually have a slight negative impact. In extreme cases it can actually get the domain itself blacklisted (though thankfully this is quite rare even for sites that overdo this!)

Techniques that worked until more recently were to have paged that were identical all except a single keyword (like location which may be mentioned a few tines and would be theonly difference between pages).

This I would also strongly recommend against. It would be far better to ask :"can I write a document that is sensible (grammatically correct) but uses these words?" If you can think of just one type of person who.would benefit from this extra page, simply write it and add to your site! In the example of locations (a common reason people keyword stuff in this manner) then a 'locations we have worked' or 'past client case studies' would be perfect as you get to talk about the keyword and location quite legitimately. You could even throw in a map for aesthetics.

Just a couple of thoughts, but yes in generally o recommend staying far away from keyword stuffing in the footer (or anything that even resembles this) ad it could even count against the site in rankings

 

[Ali-v-8]

Straight answer no