Over optimizating the site

[Randall]

Have you ever optimized your site and have been penalized for over optimizing it?

I did have this kind of problem once back in 2005 when one of my web design site was penalized from search engines due to excess of Onpage SEO.

 

[technologyslice]

How are you sure it was penalized because of over optimization? Many things can incur a penalty.

 

[jignesh]

It is very difficult to conclude what exactly the reason of panelization. But we can assume it by our experience. i have never face such problems in my 3 years of SEO experience.

 

[marshtric]

A page that is considered well-optimized for search engines contains several standard components which you are probably aware of if you are reading this article. These include title tags, meta keyword and description tags, keyword-rich header, link and body text, alt tags and a generous set of links to other pages on the site that search engines can follow (e.g., text links instead of images links). This hypothetical page will repeat the keyword whenever it is natural and relevant to do so, no more and no less. There will be no repeating of keywords in any of the above-mentioned components, no invisible text or text that is too small for the naked eye to perceive (all “black hat” tactics).This page may also contain the keyword somewhere in either the URL or the filename (e.g., www,mydomain.com/keyword.html). It seems perfect, but could it be too perfect?