Apostrophe or No for SEO?

LilBlackDress · 05-22-2009, 04:06 PM

When writing an article with SEO in mind, how does Google treat apostrophes. For example if my article is on children's toys and I have SEO in mind, should I write it as:
children's toys or childrens toys?

Thanks!

Iain Ainsworth · 05-22-2009, 04:15 PM

if you do a search in Google for the two terms, you will see different results - so Google treats them as different keywords. For an article, I'd do a 50/50 mix or two seperate articles, and in your title of your landing page use both: Childrens Toys | Children's Toys

kenj · 05-22-2009, 05:41 PM

Thanks for that answer Iain

I have been fretting about this for a few months. Now I know what to do.

Kenj

LilBlackDress · 05-23-2009, 12:48 PM

I read somewhere that if you use the apostrophe you would get results for both toys and toy's ...whereas if you just used toys you would not. But I guess this is not true?

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Iain Ainsworth Phoenix Rising War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: London, United Kingdom. Posts: 1,916 Thanks: 52 Thanked 31 Times in 21 Posts	Re: Apostrophe or No for SEO? if you do a search in Google for the two terms, you will see different results - so Google treats them as different keywords. For an article, I'd do a 50/50 mix or two seperate articles, and in your title of your landing page use both: Childrens Toys \| Children's Toys

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