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Originally Posted by lindsay39
Dear SemAdvance:
No need to be nasty!
The question wasn't "Are people searching for my phrase?" but "Does the inclusion or exclusion of words such as AND affect my Google ranking."
You need some lessons in reading! Kind of like a so-called SEO master sticking his/her foot in mouth, wouldn't you say?
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You are right....while I said it made me smile, and I even laughed you are 150% absolutely positively correct....
I should have let him... go on for the next who knows how long.... not knowing the terms he was targeting were wasting his time....
Dear Paul forgive my trying to shed some light.....next time ask Lindsay as I am sure she will be so kind as to let you go on wasting time....
Most of the many clients over the years who I have told are wasting their time in having been under the wrong assumptions in marketing or who have a website that would hinder their meeting their goals...or whatever.... seem to appreciate the honesty and candor.....
I'll leave you all to your madness....you certainly don't need nasty me here....
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Ohh and to answer the question it is not so much the stop words you are using.... it is the fact you are making your keyword term more competitive each time you remove a word.
For example anyone could rank for
Free
SEO Help In Timbuktu Michigan - which will give you a very low number of competing pages and the ability to rank at the top easily.
Results 1 - 10 of about 235 for Free
SEO Help In Timbuktu Michigan.
Now if we delete the word - Timbuktu
Results 1 - 10 of about 204,000 for Free
SEO Help In Michigan
We see a large increase in competing pages... ergo the keyword is much more competitive and likely not to rank as well,
Further if we delete the words in & Michigan - we see the amount of competing pages again increase quite dramatically
Results 1 - 10 of about 3,050,000 for Free
SEO Help
Again the ability to rank very highly is therefore much more difficult to accomplish
And if we remove the word Free
Results 1 - 10 of about 32,200,000 for
SEO Help
Again we see a very large increase in competing pages.....this would make it almost impossible to rank well.
I hope this helps explain the competitive nature of your keyword term as you remove words.....
In addition if you edit the title tag you would need to edit the other areas of
SEO methodology such as density in tags and body content alt image text anchor links etc in order to improve the rankings....
Peace!