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Stop Words Within Keywords - Does It Hurt SEO?

by TheGrooby
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Do stop words (and, of, it, be, etc) hurt your SEO efforts if you toss it in the middle of a keyword phrase to help it make sense?

Example:

Let's say I found a nice keyword with good traffic and low competition, yet if you were to write up some content with that keyword in its exact state it wouldn't make grammatical sense.

"If you're looking for a great tube water skiing then check out bla bla bla..."

The keyword being 'tube water skiing'. Would making it 'tube for water skiing' alter anything as far as ranking for 'tube water skiing'?

I'm hoping this makes enough sense. I feel slightly off in explaining it. :confused:
#hurt #keywords #seo #stop #words
  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    My experience is no, it does not hurt your SEO...

    But I have to be honest, I have never run a clean test on this premise to be certain.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Fullman
    No. It doesn't hurt your SEO.

    Google actually WANT your sentences to look real
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  • Profile picture of the author iresh
    Do stop words (and, of, it, be, etc) hurt your SEO efforts if you toss it in the middle of a keyword phrase to help it make sense?
    I personally dont agree with you, but dont know for sure, so it will be grate if you can inform us about this little more
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    • Profile picture of the author illicit
      I would like to expand on this question.

      As an example, I look in the google keywords analysis and see that 'cats' has millions of searches, and 'dogs' also has millions of searches, but 'cats and dogs' has a fair amount of searches itself.

      I want to pursue this niche that I think will get me hits (because ranking for the other 2 seems like a hopeless cause).

      If I target 'cats and dogs' in my keyword campaigns, is it likely that I will rank faster/higher for that searched phrase than the top sites if they haven't targeted this exact phrase?

      Thanks in advance
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgeKuipers
    TheGrooby, its quite the opposite.
    According to my experiments, google hates unnatural keywording and loves any content that flows (with keywords inside).
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