SEO Tycoon

**Angelosanto** · 08-19-2008, 10:26 AM

I was wondering about the way stopwords work in terms of researching keywords and keyphrases

One useful piece of information to have when researching keywords is the search volume. Admittedly it isn't usually the most accurate results that you recieve but it gives a rough idea of what you are looking at.

My question is, if you are looking at a keyphrase (lets say for example "build a website") is that exactly the same as the keyphrase "build website" (because most search engines will not run the "a") or is it a different keyphrase?

I hope that made some sort of sense, I know what I mean in my head but I'm finding it a little difficult to articulate

**Ondu** · 08-19-2008, 10:33 AM

I think that "build website" is really effective key phrase. I think key phrase should be short. Imagine that you add adjective well-designed. I think it has to be 2 word maximum without any prepositions.
It's good that you noticed it.

**just_a_pod** · 08-19-2008, 10:38 AM

It's a different keyphrase (you can search for the "a" with quotes around your search I believe).

The same thing with "build website"
and "website build"

That will yield two different sets of results.

Pod.

**Angelosanto** · 08-19-2008, 11:05 AM

Thanks for that just a pod, ondu i think u missed the point a little

**raven1083** · 08-19-2008, 12:46 PM

or me it is much important to target a single searchable keyword but if the site is new try seattle first with key phrases before targeting single key phrases.

**chrishirst** · 08-19-2008, 03:59 PM

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/in...howtopic=36820

Would YOU search for "build website" instead of "build a website"

Real people are the ones doing the searching.

**Angelosanto** · 08-20-2008, 05:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishirst

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/in...howtopic=36820

Would YOU search for "build website" instead of "build a website"

Real people are the ones doing the searching.

I see what your're saying, but that was only really an example (albeit a bad one

)

But thanks for the link anyway, a good thread and a forum that I've never heard of before - I might join up

**francis84** · 08-20-2008, 05:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Angelosanto

I was wondering about the way stopwords work in terms of researching keywords and keyphrases.

I try it out, and i find it NOT helpful to me. I'll stick to my old Keywords Tools.

**Angelosanto** · 08-20-2008, 06:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by francis84

I try it out, and i find it NOT helpful to me. I'll stick to my old Keywords Tools.

Not really too sure what you mean there

**swity** · 08-20-2008, 06:19 AM

You should go with search engines related to search term and see there which keywords has most searches or most pages are index.