Reject keyword stuffing
- Minor
- IF
- THEN
- ELSE
The decision
- IF
- repetition exists primarily to influence ranking rather than aid comprehension
- THEN
- remove or rewrite it and preserve only natural references
- ELSE
- retain meaningful repetition
- Primary metric
- editorial quality
- Guardrail
- loss of clarity
- Reason
- Makes the decision explicit, measurable, and reversible where possible.
- LAKA levels
- Minor
- Operators
- IF
- THEN
- ELSE
- Governs gates
- none directly
- Source
- 04-IF-ELSE-AND-OR-RULEBOOK.md — ONP-007 — Reject keyword stuffing
The other eleven rules in On-page and Search Appearance
- ONP-001 Align the title with the task IF the title does not clearly identify the page’s dominant task or value Minor
- ONP-002 Use unique titles for unique canonicals IF two intended indexable canonical pages use materially duplicate titles Minor
- ONP-003 Measure title changes causally IF a title or snippet is changed Minor
- ONP-004 Write descriptions for decision support IF the result snippet can help users determine relevance Minor
- ONP-005 Use headings as answer architecture IF the task has stages, criteria, subquestions, or choices Major
- ONP-006 Write natural body language IF required concepts, entities, attributes, and relations are missing Major
- ONP-008 Describe meaningful images IF an image communicates information or functions as a link/control Minor
- ONP-009 Optimize new URLs, protect old ones IF a page has not launched Minor
- ONP-010 Use structured data only when applicable IF a supported structured-data type accurately represents visible page content Major
- ONP-011 Measure rich-result realization IF structured data validates successfully Baseline
- ONP-012 Adjust CTR expectations IF CTR is evaluated Baseline
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