Stop words in Keyword and URL

by tomyeto

Posted: 10 years ago 24 replies

Hi,
I have questions on stop words. I have several articles using stop words as keyword and i used the keyword in url.

Does it have any SEO effect to use stop word keyword in content and in url?

#keyword #stop #url #words

constructor 10 years ago

over usage of stop words is not advised anyway. it depends on many factors the SE decides whether to consider these stop words or not
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Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by tomyeto

Hi,
I have questions on stop words. I have several articles using stop words as keyword and i used the keyword in url.

Does it have any SEO effect to use stop word keyword in content and in url?

NO, that doesn't have a lot of benefits. The algos are smarter than that. Did you notice how SEs omit stop words while displaying search results? Same rule applies.

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Max BNC

10 years ago

Most search engines do not consider extremely common words in order to speed up search results. So if your keyword is a stop word this isnt good. Here is a list of common stop words.

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tomyeto

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Max BNC

Most search engines do not consider extremely common words in order to speed up search results. So if your keyword is a stop word this isnt good. Here is a list of common stop words.

Thank you Max BNC, that is a very useful list

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tomyeto 10 years ago

I do some keyword research and found a good keyword, but it has a stop word on it. For example, the keyword is "sleep on the ice". How should i use the keyword in the article and url without the stop word? Or i just make an article focusing on "ice sleeping", will the result and cpc be the same as Keyword planner?
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nettiapina 10 years ago

If the stop word is part of a phrase that people search for I don't see why you should avoid it. Well, perhaps I'd still remove stop words from the page URL. You're targeting persons, not just Google, so the most natural form of the keyword is usually a good idea.
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jameskaavin 10 years ago

Yes stop words is effect yours website and I want to update you 1 Tip don't use stop words in you title ,but you can use stop words in article
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- promo87 Banned 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by jameskaavin
  
  Yes stop words is effect yours website and I want to update you 1 Tip don't use stop words in you title ,but you can use stop words in article
  
  Seriously @JamesKaavin ???? Why you are giving OP bad suggestion ??? I don't get it the tip you have given can get the OP penalised. I wonder what makes you give such suggestion ? :confused:
  
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  Originally Posted by promo87
  
  SI don't get it the tip you have given can get the OP penalised.
  
  Care to elaborate? The tip wasn't any good, but I don't see how it's getting one penalized.
  
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anoopsparx 10 years ago

Do not over optimize for a single keywords, use variation, use long and short keywords. This is the best approach for ranking.
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tomyeto 10 years ago

I tried to perform a search using stop word keyword, some of the result displayed exact keyword with stop word. I think search engine still rank the page using stop words, but maybe from high authority site..
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- Max BNC 10 years ago
  
  Yes they can still show in the search results but they carry little to no keyword value. Your best keywords are, grammatically speaking, nouns and verbs, with adjectives in close support.
  
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Kris79 10 years ago

#1 Stop words in URLs
It is best to remove stop words from your URLs.
Benefit: shorter URLs
For example: Wordpress SEO plugin by Yoast is removing them automatically.

#2 Stop words in content and titles
Yes. It look natural when you are using stop words.
Remember that all keywords from Google Keyword Planner do not have stop words because Google is removing them since they are irrelevant. Bu you should use it in natural way in your content.

#3 Stop words in anchor text in backlinks
Also very good to mix them into anchor texts to make it more natural and not so optimized.
Also study by SearchMetrics:
SEO Ranking Factors - Rank Correlation 2013 for Google USA 2013
shown that websites that are using stop words in their backlinks are ranking higher (of course this is only statistica data, but still interesting)

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sud786 10 years ago

Use of Stop words in URLs : Take this URL as an example http://yoursite.com/category/this-is...url-structure/
This URL has maximum use of stop words and make it big in length.

Wihtout Stop words in URLs:
So avoid stop words in URLs and make it like this yoursite.com/category/good-url-structure/
which is SEO friendly.

read here : How to Avoid Stop Words for SEO – List of Stop Words
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affilorama-portal 10 years ago

I always thought that stop words are omitted by search engines? And in SEO-friendly way, you need to just get rid of stop words. The shorter (without stop words) the better.
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VivekThakur 10 years ago

Its a seo basic rule if
Keyword included in url and keyword included in content, keyword included in meta title description , you will definitely get benefits.
Just type "stop" in search engine and check results for it.
You will get all results including stop word in url or meta title,description or page content.
Go ahead but don't over optimize stop word, maintain keyword density always.
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- nettiapina 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by VivekThakur
  
  Just type "stop" in search engine and check results for it.
  
  It seems that you don't understand what "stop word" means.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words
  
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keepkalm 10 years ago

This is the top result for "stop words in urls"

Better SEO to remove "stop" words from an article's URL Slug? - Stack Overflow

This doesn't seem to matter that much.
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- nettiapina 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by keepkalm
  
  This is the top result for "stop words in urls"
  
  And this WF thread is number three from where I look. How does the single answer on that page help us any?
  
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BWHadam 10 years ago

make it long, and add stop word in it, add something ahead or back or put the word in middle, this will give more natural look to google.
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dgui123451 10 years ago

Don't bother too much about stopwords. Google isn't a fool. However don't focus too much on them and try to game SERPs with stopwords in tags.
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- nettiapina 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by dgui123451
  
  However don't focus too much on them and try to game SERPs with stopwords in tags.
  
  That doesn't make any sense. Why would you have words that are meaningless for any search in your tags? How can you game anything with such words?
  
  Originally Posted by spyindia sanjiv
  
  There is no any method to stop keywords in seo.
  
  That's not what "stop word" means.
  
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KeywordKing 10 years ago

Yeah, I always remove stop works in URLS. Keep them in the titles though because they make it nice and grammatically correct for any visitors. I don't worry so much about them when backlinking though. I tend to use naked urls nowadays, that seems to be working out quite well for me.
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ConsultJoseph 10 years ago

It depends on what stop word, followed by which keyword and for what search engine. I will assume it is Google.

Google has done a good job on pairing word (even stop words) with keywords beside it. What I mean by that is that it doesn't consider the stop word a stop word if the search trends indicate that the stop word is actually a keyword.

I'll give you an example.

Let's say it's a movie: "The Terminator" or whatever that has a stop word in it.

People will type in "the" all the time as they want to talk about the movie/game. In that case, having THE in your url/title is beneficial since Google will factor that as well.

My source from that is my extensive experience from 2 clients. One is a mega movie database website owner I worked with for half a year and another that markets games (worked with him almost a year).
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