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Re: GOP Says: Don’t Blame Us, Blame Palin

Fruit Heights — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:54:59 -0000

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...

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mujde ar — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:19:17 -0000

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

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h700 — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:10:08 -0000

her 15 mins of fame ran out lol

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ben — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:55:08 -0000

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.

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Jessy@Walnut Real Estate — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:00:31 -0000

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

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Tartan Pashmina — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:48:05 -0000

Palin v Obama in 2012 - are the republicans serious?

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Pink Pashmina — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:46:56 -0000

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

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Work In Thailand — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:20:40 -0000

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? :) )

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Surface Preparation — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:07:41 -0000

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

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Joey Logano — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:02:46 -0000

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.

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Re: GOP Says: Don’t Blame Us, Blame Palin

Ryan Moriguchi — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:05:29 -0000

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 .).

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Archiver — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:53:34 -0000

@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.

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Suz — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:13:54 -0000

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.

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Jordans — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:14:13 -0000

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

OBAMA!

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credit imobiliar — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:09:50 -0000

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

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glendale lawyer — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:15:25 -0000

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

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Utah Vericose Vein Removal — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:34:10 -0000

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.

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Archiver — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:42:27 -0000

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.

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Forrest — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:37:33 -0000

... 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?

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Archiver — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:48:53 -0000

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.

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Re: GOP Says: Don’t Blame Us, Blame Palin

Bonnie@Data Entry Services — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:33:15 -0000

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.