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SERP tip (Sarch Engine Result Page)

by EricThor
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Maybe this is old news to folks here, if so I apologize, but I just learned a hard lesson with Google SERPs - CapitalizaTION MEAns evERything!

As you SEO your website make sure you account for capitalization of words - Google accounts for it and so MUST you! Here is an example:

Purple Widgets
and
purple widgets

Are two different things to Google. You have to put yourself at the keyboard of your target audience and account for those who will capitalize words and those that don't. You will get two different SERPs at the minimum.

So in the above example, your key SEO words MUST be:

Purple Widgets, purple widgets, Purple widgets, purple Widgets.

You have to account for ALL variations in capitalization to rank high in all of them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shoaib
    Originally Posted by EricThor View Post

    Maybe this is old news to folks here, if so I apologize, but I just learned a hard lesson with Google SERPs - CapitalizaTION MEAns evERything!

    As you SEO your website make sure you account for capitalization of words - Google accounts for it and so MUST you! Here is an example:

    Purple Widgets
    and
    purple widgets

    Are two different things to Google. You have to put yourself at the keyboard of your target audience and account for those who will capitalize words and those that don't. You will get two different SERPs at the minimum.

    So in the above example, your key SEO words MUST be:

    Purple Widgets, purple widgets, Purple widgets, purple Widgets.

    You have to account for ALL variations in capitalization to rank high in all of them.
    That's not true.
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    • Profile picture of the author EricThor
      Originally Posted by Shoaib View Post

      That's not true.
      Well, that's my experience and have positive proof to back up my experience.

      But you guys do what you want - I did my part by alerting you....
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  • Profile picture of the author Diana Lane
    Try it - the results returned will be exactly the same.
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  • Profile picture of the author Diana Lane
    I get the same for both of them too.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Same result. Only thing that changed was the wording in two sponsored links but the URL was the same. Don't worry about it. Almost everyone that delves into SEO has had an AHA! moment that turned out to be really a ho hum moment.
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      • Profile picture of the author EricThor
        What position do you guys see my honuakaicafe.com?

        I keep seeing them in different positions with nothing but the capitals used or not.

        I'm using the latest FireFox.

        I just did the check on IE 7 and both appear at position 7.

        I know that If I'm logged into my Gmail account I get different positions - #1 if logged in and #7 if not logged in. That's for IE 7 or Firefox.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarkAse
    Same result for both searches on my end as well.

    Eric are you logged in to your webmaster tools or your Google account? Sometimes that can throw off SERPS.
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    • Profile picture of the author EricThor
      Originally Posted by MarkAse View Post

      Same result for both searches on my end as well.

      Eric are you logged in to your webmaster tools or your Google account? Sometimes that can throw off SERPS.
      If I log into my Gmail account I get higher positions of all my websites. Each has been optimized using Google tools. It automatically seems to log me into webmaster tools since when I go there I am already logged in.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    I don't see any difference - which Google search are you using? US? UK?

    Have you tweaked the results to your liking using the tool they offer to make pages go up or down when you search for something?

    I did that once and thought I had found something when, in fact, I had manipulated the results myself. LOL

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    • Profile picture of the author EricThor
      Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

      I don't see any difference - which Google search are you using? US? UK?

      Have you tweaked the results to your liking using the tool they offer to make pages go up or down when you search for something?

      I did that once and thought I had found something when, in fact, I had manipulated the results myself. LOL

      Allen
      US.

      My position of #3 will stay there and eventually drop to #7 in a few days if I don't post an article or add a backlink. The non-capitalized is rock steady at #7.
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  • Profile picture of the author mr2monster
    I get different results for some terms, and the same results for others.

    I also get different numbers of results on most of the terms that I've tried.
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  • Profile picture of the author pinoytutorial
    You shouldn't worry about capitalization, Google knows better. Perhaps you see variations in results due to different data centers that serves the SERP on your PC at a time. I won't concentrate on this item at all since there are more significant SEO stuff to focus your attention to.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Gannon
    Well I know when I search I never capitalize anything... and I tried your theory in Google and the rankings are almost exactly the same, one time i seen the two tops spots switched. I don't think anyone really has to worry about this...
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    • Profile picture of the author EricThor
      I sure believe everyone here - but I still see differences on my latest version of FireFox's Google search bar.

      Oh well, if I ever find out why I see a difference I'll let you guys know.
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