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If you ever actually have to read a blog, you’ll notice how difficult it is, even though it is normally just a list of ten “top tips” or soundbites. This is because it was written by someone who started off with English not being his first language, and was then instructed (probably for about $3 per hour) to repeat the main topic of the blog as many times as humanly possible within the text. I’ll give you an example, from a blog about how to make money using wordpress:

“Making money using WordPress: A guide for wordpress users to make money (using wordpress). WordPress users who want to make money using wordpress would do well to read this guide on making money using wordpress! WordPress gives you the potential to make money using wordpress. I make money using wordpress on my blog and you can also make money using wordpress by reading my guide on how to make money using wordpress. Without much further ado I want to show you the top ten ways you can make money using wordpress…”

They do this because they think the people who run google are complete idiots and wouldn’t bother to pay some harvard physics graduate a million dollars an hour to come up with complicated yet elegant (no doubt) mathematics to prevent this sort of nonsense from helping their blog become ranked higher for people searching for “make money using wordpress.”

Yet, even though google people turn out to be pretty ingelligent, the bloggers know best and so they continue to stuff their blogs full of “keywords” in offensive ways that make reading anything on the internet akin to knawing on your own big toe – tasteless, painful and ultimately a turn off.