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Originally Posted by Mike-mijen
On my hub which is a blog I have All in One SEO Pack. It seems to keep the key words and meta fresh. I have had this up for a few years now and never seem to get much SEO traffic.
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AAAARG! Your problem is that not only is (as other posts have said) software like "All in One SEO Pack" no damn good without additional work from the WM, it is actually extremely detrimental to your traffic if you are not working with it. Three important things to remember:
1) If your meta tags contain words that are not in your site text the search engines will see this as meta spam and penalise your ranking.
2) If you use a script that dumps keywords into the body of the page, remember that the big search engines are looking for this, they "test" the spread to see if it looks like it was written by a human or computer, they will penalise you if they think software did it (or if they think you wrote the text just to dump keywords).
3) Software is not human, it does not know or think, it just does what it is designed to do - this can lead to it making big mistakes. As an example, when I was new to WMing (way back in the 90s) I used a company who had software that analysed your site, compared it with similar sites that got high SE ranking, looked at those sites meta keywords and then inserted the ones it thought best into my sites (I.E. stole them, I am not proud of this - I was new at the time and was advised that this was the way it was done). Fortunately I checked the sites (I was not so green as to trust them). In my teen site it had added the keywords "child pornography" and "under age"!
If you are using any kind of SEO software, always only use it as a guide. Set it to send you a report, then use that report to guide what you do yourself. Never let it adjust your site itself, at best that is useless, and at worst it will be detrimental to your ranking. Remember, computers can do most things a lot quicker and more accurately than the human brain, but they don't actually think. And they act logically - but never confuse logic with common sense, which computers
DON'T have.