DISQUS

Bonnie@Data Entry Services · 1 year ago

No Sara I don't know any other - I actually didn't know that the search engines ignored punctuation. Good trick with the dentist. Wisconsin! Thanks for educating me.

Archiver · 1 year ago

Search engines does have their quirks. For example "dentist wisconsin" returned 2,200,000 results whereas "dentist dentist wisconsin" returned 2,690,000. No, I do not know of a search engine not ignoring punctuation but I do miss the "NEAR" operator of Altavista, which checked for keywords that were near, not necessarily one after the other, each other.

Archiver's last blog post..The Pearl of Istanbul

Forrest · 1 year ago

... and what about "g-dropping?" Or maybe that should be droppin'?

You're a writer, yes? Spend an hour following the results Google will show you for natural language processing (NLP). Google uses their own in-house algorithms, but, the exercise will give you a much better idea about the state of the industry, and what's possible.

There's a "maximum entropy" model, which doesn't seem to be widely used in search engines. If you wrote "Mr. Goldman spent $46.87 this morning to park his car." your readers would see this as one sentence; the period following Mr, and in the dollar amount, don't terminate the sentence, or even the lexical term. Plenty of other examples.

And then on the other end of the spectrum, search engines generally ignore stop words: the, of, in, etc. Google seems to have that one both ways, at least in their search index, but anchor text is an open question: is "dentist in Wisconsin" treated the same as "... dentist. Wisconsin ..." in your example, if it showed up in a text link?

Forrest's last blog post..Ghostly Photographs

Archiver · 1 year ago

It does have an effect if it, i.e. "in", is in url. Google will actively search the presence of "in". I don't remember if Google has an inachor operator, though.

Archiver's last blog post..Will the Ten Tribes Return?

Utah Vericose Vein Removal · 1 year ago

Throughout that whole video my face was buried in my hands. I am sure glad that she lost and will be back on her way to AK to keep an eye on Russia for us. I would hate to have Putin rear his head.

glendale lawyer · 1 year ago

We should thank Palin, i it wasn't for her we may have had McCain elected as president. Like an attorney friend of mine put it, if she's not as intelligent as me I have a hard time believing she would make a good candidate for VP. I agree. Thanks Palin! Dawn

credit imobiliar · 1 year ago

@glendale lawyer I totally agree. Good thing we escaped another potential Bush crisis.

Jordans · 1 year ago

lol Glendale is right, we should thank her for being so bad :)

OBAMA!

Suz · 1 year ago

I do believe, however, that Google watches the full stop indicators to a lesser degree. There may be a sneeky way around this by using only on space after a period, but I've not done any sort of extensive research on this. Also, the amount to which key phrases appear on search results when there's a full stop in them also depends on how competitive the search phrase is.

Archiver · 1 year ago

@Suz: For the period, you are right. Though the results are very close, they are not identical either. "abc def" and "abc.def" (without a space after the period) return slightly different results.

Archiver's last blog post..Calligraphy: Tools of the Trade

Ryan Moriguchi · 1 year ago

That's a genuinely great tip about punctuation and word ordering in relation to how search engines ignore punctuation. Love the subtle trick there for "dentist. Wisconsin" (as search engines ignore the .).

Joey Logano · 1 year ago

I wouldn't say it was 100% Palin's fault. There were too many factors that were against the republican party this election year. And all of the pieces just fell nicely for Obama. And plus it didn't hurt Obama... that most of the media was on his side.

Joey Logano's last blog post..Homestead Miami Preview

Surface Preparation · 1 year ago

Great tips about SEO and punctuation. Word ordering is important and exact keyphrases can be achieved if you ignore the full stop.

Work In Thailand · 1 year ago

Since people are so bad at punctuation, I doubt it has any meaningful impact on SEO. Professional tip on word order too (see what I did there? :) )

Pink Pashmina · 1 year ago

Obama v Palin in 2012 would be a non-event.

Tartan Pashmina · 1 year ago

Palin v Obama in 2012 - are the republicans serious?

Jessy@Walnut Real Estate · 1 year ago

lol! Palin v Obama in 2012? sounds interesting.. I can't wait.

ben · 1 year ago

Arent those kind of wisconsin. dentist tricks short lived? I seem to constantly read about updates google does that stop those kind of things. I work at a company where people play video games for a living and it seems that every competitor comes up with new tricks but then google smashes them.

h700 · 1 year ago

her 15 mins of fame ran out lol

mujde ar · 7 months ago

Without altering the keyword by adding “in,” this keyword isn’t going to make any sense.

Fruit Heights · 6 months ago

I hope Sarah gets the nomination in 2009... I want to see her and Obama go toe to toe! She'll do well in Utah at least...