Stop Words & Search Engine Optimization
December 11th, 2009 // 11:04 am @ Uri Lederman
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Stop words are common words that are ignored by search engines at the time of searching a key phrase. This is done in order to save space on their server, and also to accelerate the search process.
When a search is conducted in a search engine, it will exclude the stop words from the search query, and will use the query by replacing all the stop words with a marker. A marker is a symbol that is substituted with the stop words. The intention is to save space. This way, the search engines are able to save more web pages in that extra space, as well as retain the relevancy of the search query.
Besides, omitting a few words also speeds up the search process. For instance, if a query consists of three words, the Search Engine would generally make three runs for each of the words and display the listings. However, if one of the words is such that omitting it does not make a difference to search results, it can be excluded from the query and consequently the search process becomes faster. Some commonly excluded “stop words” are:
after, also, an, and, as, at, be, because, before, between, but, before, for, however, from, if, in, into, of, or, other, out, since, such, than, that, the, these, there, this, those, to, under, upon, when, where, whether, which, with, within, without
The Title page is still a key onpage factor for optimizing your pages for the search engines. This factor is also limited to about 70 characters so not using these types of stop words will help in optimizing this real estate.. 
We are a Search Engine Optimization Company that work on a Pay Per Performance basis.
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Keywords Are The Currency of the Internet
June 30th, 2009 // 3:52 pm @ Uri Lederman
We did one of our PPC Training Workshop last week which just showed me how big this knowledge GAP for successful online marketing SEM Initiatives really is.
“Keywords are the currency of the Internet.”
The most important part of Search Engine Marketing is choosing the correct keywords. The basis of our Pay Per Click Training workshops is to instill the following rules to keyword research.
1) Pick keywords and phrases with traffic. This sounds easy enough, but did you know that roughly 90% of keywords get little to NO traffic. With all the F.R.E.E. tools available online, why do people still guess at choosing keywords? What keywords are you currently ranked for? are you getting what you want from those keywords?
2) Target Keywords that have the intention that you are looking for. Every user has some intention when they type in a particular phrase into any search engine. Can you see the different in intent between “Jeans” and “Levis 301 Jeans”? Microsoft Adlab has a terrific Commercial Intent Tool that can help you with that.
3) Target Keywords with Lower competition. Do your market research carefully and find the low hanging fruit within your industry and STOP fighting the battles you can’t win.
Now Go Revisit Your Keywords Today!
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