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Rank for Racecar and Race Car?

by grey38
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How can I go about doing this, without giving up quality or consistency on my website? This is not my keyword, but it represents what I'm trying to rank for. Any ideas?
#car #race #racecar #rank
  • Profile picture of the author swords
    Originally Posted by grey38 View Post

    How can I go about doing this, without giving up quality or consistency on my website? This is not my keyword, but it represents what I'm trying to rank for. Any ideas?
    I personally would rank for the word BACKWARDS. This way you not only fool your users with great content, but you fool Google into thinking you're ranking for an easy keyword, but really it's tough!


    On a more serious note - it depends what you've determined the competition to be. If one has easier competition, take that one. Or if one has higher search volume, do that one! It depends on your preferences and your capability to rank a website.
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    • Profile picture of the author grey38
      Well politically correct, the word is separated, but majority searches together some on terms that dont even get searched at all separated.

      P.S. i knew someone was going to bring up racecar being a palindrome
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        You would just build backlinks using "racecar" as the anchor text as well as backlinks with "race car" as the anchor text.

        Problem solved.
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        • Profile picture of the author grey38
          Alright, I see what you mean, but are they considered 2 totally different words by google. So if I had race car, would I rank for racecar at all. Or in some pages should i do something like this: "The Race car (Racecar) was too fast for the driver." ? Or might this be considered keyword stuffing?
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          • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
            According to the Google Keyword Tool

            race car gets 14,800 exact searches a month
            racecar gets 8,100 exact searches a month

            So yes, Google sees these as two different keywords.

            On your site, I would put whichever is the correct version of your keyword grammatically. Offsite, build links with both in the anchor text.
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            • Profile picture of the author grey38
              Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

              According to the Google Keyword Tool

              race car gets 14,800 exact searches a month
              racecar gets 8,100 exact searches a month

              So yes, Google sees these as two different keywords.

              On your site, I would put whichever is the correct version of your keyword grammatically. Offsite, build links with both in the anchor text.
              But if i build links with anchor text with the content no existing on the site for the one keyword, how would i get ranked for that keyword if they are separate?
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              • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
                Originally Posted by grey38 View Post

                But if i build links with anchor text with the content no existing on the site for the one keyword, how would i get ranked for that keyword if they are separate?
                The keyword does not need to appear on the page for you to rank for it.

                Google "click here". The first listing is a page for Adobe.

                Nowhere on that page does the phrase "click here" appear. Yet they are #1 for it.
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