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SEO Glossary – Stop Words

Posted by Doherty on May 3, 2010 in SF Business Services | 2 comments

Image via Wikipedia STOP WORDS Certain words, such as “the,” “a”, “if,” “of,” and “with,” are extremely common and don’t provide meaning for search relevancy.  Most search engines don’t include them in their index, or database, of web page content. The stop words on your web pages are disregarded, as if those words didn’t exist in the text.  Typically, this is a non-issue except when the stop word is crucial to the search – for example – when you are search for Pete Townsend’s band “The Who.” List of English Stop Words (list, PHP Array, MySQL Stop Words) Including a lot of stop words in your title tag dilutes the title tag’s...