Question about keywords

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I am publishing the articles I got from my writer. I am curious about the way he treated my keyword and wonder if this will work.

I have a three word phrase and the way they wrote the article, the first and third words are separated by a comma. Will that comma affect the results for ranking?
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  • This is a good question and I wish I had the answer for it.
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  • No it won't.

    But with that said you should write (or edit in this case) with the user in mind. Make sure your article reads well. It shouldnt be a giant wall of text. Make sure of lists and h2, h3 tags to set section headings and callouts.
  • In my experience, It doesn't matter at all even if it is a hyphen, colon or nothing at all as in another word is attached to it like so fjgfgjfgfKEYWORDjgfgd., as long as the keyword is formed within anything else before and after it.

    Bernard St-Pierre
  • I progress in SEO understanding that Google, and probably other Search Engines, read keywords like how human read words, left to right. Having said that, and hoping I am not wrong with what I used to believe, comma would simply be treated as a white space or a pause, or in other words ignored. By the way, I found this article from SearchEngineJournal regarding how Google treats punctuation --> How Google Treats Punctuation | Search Engine Journal
  • Obviously it'd be best if the comma wasn't there, but it shouldn't hurt.
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    Question about keywords

    I am publishing the articles I got from my writer. I am curious about the way he treated my keyword and wonder if this will work. I have a three word phrase and the way they wrote the article, the first and third words are separated by a comma. Will that comma affect the results for ranking?