Keyword Stuffing is an outdated, damaging practice. I'm not sure how effective it ever was, but I do know that just about every manager, owner, and webmaster who begins learning about SEO writing, comes up with it and tries it out.

My basic policy with this particular topic, and others like it, is 'I don't do it.' Really it is that simple. You've read in this article and many others I have written, that most of the decisions for Freelance Writing are on the client. But this is one of the areas which I don't leave to the Client, because along with today's payment, is tomorrow's payment, and I would rather loose one client than loose several others because of reputation and complaint.

Using keywords for SEO - an overview
by Glenn Hefley

We hear quite a bit about key words in regards to getting web sites to show up in search results. What we don't hear most of the time is how they really work and how to effectively use them. The best way to use them, is to have Google, or Yahoo tell us what key words should be on the page.

We don't need to be HTML experts or know everything about keywords and META Tags. We only need to know what should be done, and how, so we can know if our web masters or programmers are being effective for us (or at the very least not hurting us).