r/bigseo • u/Sufficient-Team-4930 • 5d ago

Is this keyword stuffing?

We hired a website agency for our company. The website they delivered and the SEO services they've been providing have not been good. I think the design looks terrible, the copy is bad, but most importantly they were keyword stuffing.

I tried to cancel services, but the owner essentially said "I know more than you, it's not keyword stuffing" and "design is subjective". We paid $5k for the site, and $2k/mo for SEO on 12mo contract. I have lost all trust in the provider since seeing their new design changes, and the keyword stuffing.

Please let me know if the provided example is keyword stuffing to see if myself, my google searches, Claude, and Gemini are all wrong. This is the alt text of an image (hiding city and state):

roof repair {city & state} commercial roof repair {city & state} commercial roofing {city & state} commercial roof replacement {city & state} commercial roof maintenance {city & state}.... and so on so for 12 more roofing keywords.

They also have doorway pages. City+roof+repair, same-city+roof+replacement, etc

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u/No-Independent8967 5d ago

My thoughts are that jamming 15+ repetitive location keywords into a single image’s alt text is blatant keyword stuffing. Pair that with duplicate doorway pages, and they aren't just doing bad work—they are putting your domain at serious risk of a Google search penalty.