Very Simple (Usually Overlooked) Tip When Implementing Keywords

by Daniel Molano

Posted: 15 years ago 6 replies

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Hyphens, yes that's right hyphens. The - symbol is in my experience completely overlooked by the search engines.

This works in anything, be it domains or articles, anything related to SEO for that matter.

Another warrior pointed out in another thread that a crappy blog is ranking first for the long tail keyword saw 5 trailer in Google, if you look at the domain it's saw-5---trailer.blogspot.com, how did he manage? Simple, Google completely ignores hyphens.

You can also apply it when writing articles. Let's say you find a gramatically impossible keyword with high daily search results like: weight loss need fast tips now. (Just an example)

Even Tarzan would have trouble understanding it.

How the hell are you going to add a keyword like that into an article title or in the body for that matter? Easy, Weight Loss - Need Fast Tips Now?

The search engines will recognize it as weight loss need fast tips now, ignoring both the hyphen and the question mark.

This might sound stupid and I bet many of you already knew this, but I am certain many of you didn't and it works.

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flnz400 15 years ago

With over 500 backlinks, I'd say the hyphens mean nothing. lol
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- Daniel Molano 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by flnz400
  
  With over 500 backlinks, I'd say the hyphens mean nothing. lol
  
  Yeah it does have a lot of backlinks, but let's just say he would still beat a similar site with a none keyword related domain that has 700 backlinks, just because of the domain name.
  
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Lynn Stivers 15 years ago

To be honest I just never thought about it but it makes sense.

I really appreciate the examples (I love examples).

Thanks Daniel!

Lynn
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onera 15 years ago

Good advice. Thanks for sharing
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Kurt

15 years ago

This multiple hypen----thingy was something that Google was "supposed" to penalize a while back, as it was exploited by SEOers.

Whether they will or not in the future is anyone's guess. Just beaware that the rumors are around.