Women's or Womens when doing SEO writing?

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I noticed a lot of people when writing keyword rich content for a keyword string like womens handbags, leave the apostrophe out. That seems almost as cheesy to me as targeting a mispelled search string. Does it really make a difference to leave out the apostrope, or are these people nitpicking?
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  • Profile picture of the author rohnsmith
    I have one project on which sells women stuff o I have put woman content writer and it really makes difference....
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  • Profile picture of the author petevamp
    It may seem cheesy to you but think of how most people do searches in google. They will leave out punctuation 95% of the time. So it does make a big difference if you are writing seo keyword rich content. Google does not see it as a misspelling either. Not to mention in your keyword research how many times did a term woman's ---- show up and not just womens. You should think like your market and not what you think looks cheesy. Your market is all you should care about.
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    • Originally Posted by petevamp View Post

      It may seem cheesy to you but think of how most people do searches in google. They will leave out punctuation 95% of the time. So it does make a big difference if you are writing seo keyword rich content. Google does not see it as a misspelling either. Not to mention in your keyword research how many times did a term woman's ---- show up and not just womens. You should think like your market and not what you think looks cheesy. Your market is all you should care about.
      My point with saying it looked cheesy was a concern over how a site that writes "womens handbags" instead of "women's handbags" is percieved by a reader. A lot of people would be turned off by a site that wasn't professional enough to use an apostrophe (assuming they weren't SEO minded).

      So I was thinking about my market. I guess cheesy was a strange choice of words.

      Thanks,
      James
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      • Profile picture of the author Lee Wilson
        Originally Posted by dru-man View Post

        My point with saying it looked cheesy was a concern over how a site that writes "womens handbags" instead of "women's handbags" is percieved by a reader. A lot of people would be turned off by a site that wasn't professional enough to use an apostrophe (assuming they weren't SEO minded).

        So I was thinking about my market. I guess cheesy was a strange choice of words.

        Thanks,
        James
        I'm no wordsmith but I thought 'womens' handbags would be the correct use anyway. The apostrophe would be used to refer to a single person, or without it for when you are talking about more than one person.

        "A woman's handbag" = the singular
        "Womens handbags" = handbags for women

        Someone correct me if I'm wrong?
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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    Originally Posted by dru-man View Post

    Does it really make a difference to leave out the apostrope, or are these people nitpicking?
    It doesn't make a difference. Punctuation is stripped internally by search engines, both in the query and in the database.
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  • Profile picture of the author ashokpobox
    According to me, Stop looking at how often the term gets searched and look at instead, how often the term gets CLICKED and CONVERTS. After all, that’s why you are in this business to begin with.

    100% correct English grammar doesn't apply on the web
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben_R
    yeh the long haired dude is correct they also ignore upper and lower case
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    • Profile picture of the author alexdigital
      Originally Posted by I'm_Gordon_Gekko View Post

      yeh the long haired dude is correct they also ignore upper and lower case
      LOL. What he said. I think..

      However, if you take a look at Google Wonderwheel, Google associates different words with each spelling. And doen's appear to relate the two.

      Womens:
      Google

      Women's:
      Google

      Interesting question..
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  • Profile picture of the author rahulbatra
    Yes it makes a difference when you talk in terms of keyword research.
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