For decades now, many SEOs have disagreed with Googlers about how to do SEO and how to rank sites well in Google Search. Some of those who disagree feel Google is either lying to the industry, some feel those Googlers don't know the answer and some feel they just know better.
John Mueller of Google tweeted about this the other day when he was asked to detail what is wrong with an article on Google ranking factors. He said on Twitter "When Googlers give corrections, there are often claims that it's not true - be it from Googlers wanting to mislead, or them being incompetent."
The funny thing, this just happened on Reddit on the topic of keyword density where John gave his advice, saying not to focus on that as a metric and someone said in response to John "don't agree with you, have you done any SEO recently to test this? I have."
Here was what John wrote on the topic of keyword density:
Mentioning a concept at least once on a page is one thing, but anything past that doesn't really make sense. You're focusing on a metric that's irrelevant to search engines. This is pretty much one of the first things all sites did when search engines first appeared 25? years ago. Any tool that's still recommending keyword density is stuck in that time -- the world has moved on significantly. I'd recommend spending your time wiser.
The SEO's response:
Dont agree with you, have you done any seo recently to test this? I have. Maybe there is other low hanging fruit to capture under the...
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