🍗 Food mixture 🛋️ Soft filling 💻 Too many keywords

stuffing

8.4

Putting many keywords into a web page or email to try to trick search engines

noun
/ˈstʌfɪŋ/

Jargon

: relleno de palabras clave

Overuse of stuffing in email marketing can lead to messages being labeled as spam.

Examples

The SEO expert warned against stuffing meta tags, as this practice can harm online visibility.
Stuffing to the maximum will make your cover photo visually overwhelming to the visitor.

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Keyword Stuffing:

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Many website owners avoid stuffing their articles with keywords to prevent penalties from search engines.

Idioms

to beat the stuffing out of

Offensive

1 9.0

Hit someone many times until they are badly hurt

to knock the stuffing out of

Informal

1 8.6

To make someone feel very tired, weak, or sad

Compounds

oyster stuffing

2 4.5

A bread mix with oysters and herbs served beside or put inside roast turkey

turkey stuffing

1 2.3

A seasoned mix of bread and herbs used to fill a roast turkey or serve with it

stuffing box

Specialized

9.8

A small space around a moving shaft filled with packing material to make a seal and stop leaks

stuffing nut

Specialized

9.9

A metal nut that presses soft material to stop oil leaking around a moving rod

How Aggressive

stuffing

Jargon

8.4

repetition

Literature

10 3.2

Surface Forms

stuffing singular

stuffings plural

Morphology

stuffing = stuff (transparent) = stuff + ing

A metaphorical extension of 'to stuff' (fill) applied to keywords; learners can infer the meaning from the base verb and context.

Etymology

Stuffing comes from stuff, which has the idea of 'filling'. Imagine a page so full of words it becomes overfull — stuffing is when people put too many keywords into a web page to try to trick search engines.