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What's the difference between exact and broad searches?

by Daryl Lim
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What's the difference between exact and broad searches in Google Keyword Tool?
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  • Profile picture of the author johnharvard
    exact - all words are found
    broad - at least one word is found
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    • Profile picture of the author scott g
      Let's pretend "words can be" is our long tail keyword:

      These words be in order can any - broad

      These words can be in any order - "phrase"

      words can be - [exact]
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  • Profile picture of the author Markateer
    exact match is usually accomplished using long tail keywords of 3 or more in line. Whereas broad match is usually a single word like golf, sports,shoes,books etc,etc,
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  • Profile picture of the author caliean
    Exact match gives you the exact keywords to which you are finding whereas broad search will give you the possible number of words with the keywords you have searched for.
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  • Profile picture of the author richardsmith
    Hi To All


    Exact keyword is something exact, for example if your are using exact keyword and your search for "cat" it will show only "cat" but in broad keyword section it will show "food for cat" "big cat" "small cat" and so on. It's always good to use broad keyword until your are some big brand.


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    • Profile picture of the author russelarnold
      Broad Search - This refers to a search query which shows all the keywords which contain the search terms in any order.

      Exact Search - This refers to a search query which shows all the keywords which only contains the search terms.
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  • Profile picture of the author misha7878
    exact are the words in the same exact order and only those words.
    broad search can have those words with any order words in any order and with any ending.
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  • Profile picture of the author goodspeedamanda
    Hi............
    Nice to meet you all here. Good discussion going in this forum.
    exact - All words are found
    broad - At least one word is found
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