Rank for Racecar and Race Car?

grey38 · 11-21-2011, 01:20 AM

How can I go about doing this, without giving up quality or consistency on my website? This is not my keyword, but it represents what I'm trying to rank for. Any ideas?

swords · 11-21-2011, 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by grey38

How can I go about doing this, without giving up quality or consistency on my website? This is not my keyword, but it represents what I'm trying to rank for. Any ideas?

I personally would rank for the word BACKWARDS. This way you not only fool your users with great content, but you fool Google into thinking you're ranking for an easy keyword, but really it's tough!

On a more serious note - it depends what you've determined the competition to be. If one has easier competition, take that one. Or if one has higher search volume, do that one! It depends on your preferences and your capability to rank a website.

grey38 · 11-21-2011, 05:48 AM

Well politically correct, the word is separated, but majority searches together some on terms that dont even get searched at all separated.

P.S. i knew someone was going to bring up racecar being a palindrome

MikeFriedman · 11-21-2011, 05:59 AM

You would just build backlinks using "racecar" as the anchor text as well as backlinks with "race car" as the anchor text.

Problem solved.

grey38 · 11-21-2011, 12:02 PM

Alright, I see what you mean, but are they considered 2 totally different words by google. So if I had race car, would I rank for racecar at all. Or in some pages should i do something like this: "The Race car (Racecar) was too fast for the driver." ? Or might this be considered keyword stuffing?

MikeFriedman · 11-21-2011, 12:32 PM

According to the Google Keyword Tool

race car gets 14,800 exact searches a month
racecar gets 8,100 exact searches a month

So yes, Google sees these as two different keywords.

On your site, I would put whichever is the correct version of your keyword grammatically. Offsite, build links with both in the anchor text.

grey38 · 11-21-2011, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

According to the Google Keyword Tool

race car gets 14,800 exact searches a month
racecar gets 8,100 exact searches a month

So yes, Google sees these as two different keywords.

On your site, I would put whichever is the correct version of your keyword grammatically. Offsite, build links with both in the anchor text.

But if i build links with anchor text with the content no existing on the site for the one keyword, how would i get ranked for that keyword if they are separate?

MikeFriedman · 11-21-2011, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by grey38

But if i build links with anchor text with the content no existing on the site for the one keyword, how would i get ranked for that keyword if they are separate?

The keyword does not need to appear on the page for you to rank for it.

Google "click here". The first listing is a page for Adobe.

Nowhere on that page does the phrase "click here" appear. Yet they are #1 for it.

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11-21-2011, 12:02 PM	#5
grey38 HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 214 Thanks: 3 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	Re: Rank for Racecar and Race Car? Alright, I see what you mean, but are they considered 2 totally different words by google. So if I had race car, would I rank for racecar at all. Or in some pages should i do something like this: "The Race car (Racecar) was too fast for the driver." ? Or might this be considered keyword stuffing?

11-21-2011, 12:32 PM	#6
MikeFriedman Don't Drink and SEO War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: York, PA Posts: 2,009 Thanks: 207 Thanked 551 Times in 393 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Rank for Racecar and Race Car? According to the Google Keyword Tool race car gets 14,800 exact searches a month racecar gets 8,100 exact searches a month So yes, Google sees these as two different keywords. On your site, I would put whichever is the correct version of your keyword grammatically. Offsite, build links with both in the anchor text.
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11-21-2011, 01:20 AM	#1
grey38 HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 214 Thanks: 3 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	Rank for Racecar and Race Car? How can I go about doing this, without giving up quality or consistency on my website? This is not my keyword, but it represents what I'm trying to rank for. Any ideas?