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    Stop Words

    I'm not sure if this is accurate, but I think you could use stop words to modify your domain name and still get indexed for your keyword phrase. Stop words are those words that the search engines ignore because they are very common and would bring too many results to the SERP. So, "MYwarmbrownsocks" should be okay. My personal preference would be to find a stop word that fits at the end of the phrase, however, giving the search engine the actual keywords first.

    From http://www.iusb.edu/:

    “Words that do not appear in the index in a particular database because they are either insignificant (i.e., articles, prepositions) or so common that the results would be higher than the system can handle (as in the case of IUCAT where terms such as United States or Department are stop words in keyword searching.) Stop words vary from system to system. Also, some systems will merely ignore stop words where use of stop words in other systems will result in retrieving zero hits. ”

    Here's the page where I found this info:
    List of English Stop Words
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    CJ

    You are a light in the dark tunnel!!!

    As soon as I read 'Stop words,' I was like 'where did I hear this before?' Now begins the intensive search to find just that.

    But your links will solve this nagging problem for me. Thank you for coming to my rescue. lol


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    Hello DavidB or Graham,

    What do you think of stop words to modify the domain name?

    What CJ said seems valid

    Stop Words

    I'm not sure if this is accurate, but I think you could use stop words to modify your domain name and still get indexed for your keyword phrase. Stop words are those words that the search engines ignore because they are very common and would bring too many results to the SERP. So, "MYwarmbrownsocks" should be okay. My personal preference would be to find a stop word that fits at the end of the phrase, however, giving the search engine the actual keywords first.

    Thanks,
    Damion

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    Thanks Graham,

    these are quite helpful.


    Damion

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    Graham really came thru. These are excellent resources for studying this stop word issue. I hadn't found these!

    Thanks, Graham!
    ~cj
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    Damion & cj, you're very welcome.

    If you get stuck, just ask. I'm a ferret when it comes to digging out info.

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