Question For Expert SEOs: Women's Flowers Or Womens Flowers? (Using Apostrophe)

Boris_yo · 01-27-2011, 03:22 PM

Suppose i am trying to rank for "best womens flowers". If i use apostrophe (') as it is grammatically correct way of spelling here, will it spoil my ranking?

Should i rank for "best womens flowers" or "best women's flowers"?
Will spelling it gramatically correct increase trustworthiness of my website? Increase slightly conversions?

paulgl · 01-27-2011, 03:28 PM

Do a search for your terms, both ways, and see what google does
with the results.

As in something like women's flowers, that probably does not make
sense and google will change the results to what they think you mean.

So, try it with your terms and see what happens.

Paul

raviv · 01-27-2011, 03:34 PM

IMHO, the search engines ignore hyphens, piping characters, apostrophes etc as they are just separators in the content on a site. I would not worry too much about it.

I am not sure if an apostrophe can affect conversions. Spelling and grammar have to be perfect. The rest is really subjective and varies from one person to another.
Best
Raviv

Boris_yo · 01-27-2011, 04:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paulgl

Do a search for your terms, both ways, and see what google does
with the results.

As in something like women's flowers, that probably does not make
sense and google will change the results to what they think you mean.

So, try it with your terms and see what happens.

Paul

Tried with and without apostrophe and there was no difference between results. I think i will go with grammar.

Tina Golden · 01-27-2011, 05:25 PM

Punctuation doesn't count with search engines, or at least, none that I've seen.

This makes it great for those of us who want to rank for one of those oddball phrases, because we can put a period in the middle and make it make sense.

Tina

johndee · 01-27-2011, 06:14 PM

Spelling and grammar is important, but in your case search engines ignores unnecessary characters such as hyphens, apostrophe and any other punctuations. Instead, they will change the results to what they think you really mean.

yukon · 01-27-2011, 07:44 PM

Check this out, put the apostrophe in double qoutes.

Ehow[.]com is sneaky, look at the blank space they use between man & women, then the lower case s.

Also look at woo_man in the url (LMAO)!

hxxp://www.ehow.com/how_6138435_woo_-man_s-guide-women_s-flowers.html.

icosane · 06-04-2011, 01:45 PM

^ wow that is interesting

I was just thinking about keywords with apostrophes in them. Would domains like "man-s-stuff" rank well for the search "man's stuff" ??

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Boris_yo Advanced Warrior Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: , , Israel. Posts: 562 Thanks: 123 Thanked 14 Times in 13 Posts	Question For Expert SEOs: Women's Flowers Or Womens Flowers? (Using Apostrophe) Suppose i am trying to rank for "best womens flowers". If i use apostrophe (') as it is grammatically correct way of spelling here, will it spoil my ranking? Should i rank for "best womens flowers" or "best women's flowers"? Will spelling it gramatically correct increase trustworthiness of my website? Increase slightly conversions?

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paulgl Plundering the Web War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: , , . Posts: 4,849 Thanks: 804 Thanked 1,199 Times in 886 Posts	Re: Question For Expert SEOs: Women's Flowers Or Womens Flowers? (Using Apostrophe) Do a search for your terms, both ways, and see what google does with the results. As in something like women's flowers, that probably does not make sense and google will change the results to what they think you mean. So, try it with your terms and see what happens. Paul
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01-27-2011, 03:34 PM	#3
raviv HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 264 Thanks: 66 Thanked 44 Times in 40 Posts	Re: Question For Expert SEOs: Women's Flowers Or Womens Flowers? (Using Apostrophe) IMHO, the search engines ignore hyphens, piping characters, apostrophes etc as they are just separators in the content on a site. I would not worry too much about it. I am not sure if an apostrophe can affect conversions. Spelling and grammar have to be perfect. The rest is really subjective and varies from one person to another. Best Raviv

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Tina Golden Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 3,255 Blog Entries: 2 Thanks: 4,718 Thanked 3,479 Times in 1,687 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Question For Expert SEOs: Women's Flowers Or Womens Flowers? (Using Apostrophe) Punctuation doesn't count with search engines, or at least, none that I've seen. This makes it great for those of us who want to rank for one of those oddball phrases, because we can put a period in the middle and make it make sense. Tina
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yukon SEO Strategist War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 6,532 Thanks: 355 Thanked 1,992 Times in 1,273 Posts	Re: Question For Expert SEOs: Women's Flowers Or Womens Flowers? (Using Apostrophe) Check this out, put the apostrophe in double qoutes. Ehow[.]com is sneaky, look at the blank space they use between man & women, then the lower case s. Also look at woo_man in the url (LMAO)! hxxp://www.ehow.com/how_6138435_woo_-man_s-guide-women_s-flowers.html.
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06-04-2011, 01:45 PM	#8
icosane Warrior Member Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 18 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Question For Expert SEOs: Women's Flowers Or Womens Flowers? (Using Apostrophe) ^ wow that is interesting I was just thinking about keywords with apostrophes in them. Would domains like "man-s-stuff" rank well for the search "man's stuff" ??