Capitalisation affects ranking or not?

Hi,

I want your opinions on capitalisation of keywords that does captalisation of keywords have any affect on rankings in search result pages fom google or not?

Today, I went through an article at Webpronews where it has mentioned that if we search on google with a keyword having first letter in capital and then having it without capitalisation in both cases google provides different results bu when checked it on google, Google gives same results for both....What do you think it really affect or not?

 

I disagree wisdomtool.

Easiest way to find your answer is to test yourself:

Type a query into Google using lowercase - then do the same search again type with capitals...

Take note of the number of results returned

 

snoob, I did the experiment.

business - 2,350,000,000 for business
Business - 2,350,000,000 for Business
"business" - 2,420,000,000 for "business"
"Business" - 2,440,000,000 for "Business"

Conclusion: As you can see, they have the exact same ranking results for all search keywords. The only difference is the # of results returned when you add the "".

 

Strange.

Norwegian 86.700.000
norwegian 82.500.000

But the first 10 pages are exactly the same, so maybe it is just the counters that is different? Don't want to scroll to the bottom and see...

 

Maybe Google does put some weight around capitalized words, much as it does with words in H1 or H2 tags.

 

I think it depends, people used lowercase for keywords more than uppercase.
With a search for hosting and Hosting, it is 459,000,000 and 423,000,000
And for "hosting" and "Hosting, it is 461,000,000 and 461,000,000
It is little or no effect in search result.

 

Was testing this theory with the keyword AdWords Adwords and adwords.

I was also thinking how Google sometimes second guesses your search and gives you slightly different results.

I pressed seach 6 times and had 5 saying 19.9 mil and 1 saying 18.5 mil, each time I tried this 1 in 5 or 6 provided a different count.

Does this depend on a data centre?

 

Capitalization is NOT a Factor!

 

I dont link cpas in an url

as
domaniname.com/CaresaboutCaps.html
domaniname.com/caresaboutcaps.html

both will not result in a page found.Most users would use the lower case to recall your page and most would never remember the Caps,resulting in a page not found.
as far as results in a SE, makes no differance

 

Does capitalization of the entire title tag, not just the first letter in each words, make a difference?

 

I think Google search is not case sensitive.

Capitalization of keywords don't matter in Google search.

 

Capitalisation doesn't matter. bold/ normal does.

 

I'm actually seeing 2,640,000,000 for "business" and 2,440,000,000 for "Business".

 

i think usÅŸng upper case letters does not effect the rankings

 

depends on your keywords.
"business" is a no-matter-cap word
but: ".net" and ".Net" and ".NET" should different

 

Well, there is another thing we learned from this experiment, didn't we? It also depends from which area we did the search and Google provides us with varying number of returned results. Perhaps the SERP would also depend from where we did the search.

But I still think we should not care too much about the capitalization because doing so would make us crazy. lol. I would still continue to use small caps for the keywords because it's too much of an effort to press on the Shift key.

 

http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/googl...m-using-capital-letters-creates-new-keywords/

 

in terms of serps ranking, i don't think that there'll be an edge when you capitalize your target keywords

 

my opinion:

aira is on the right track.......while it may not make a large difference whether the document has lowercase or sentence case (if it does, it is extremely small), it does make a difference on click thru rates.

and ctr's is where it matters.

my experience is that when I capitalize the first letter of each word in the phrase, that my ctr's increase, and therefore when optimizing the webpage, I use that method, in the title, metadescription, the document, and links pointing to the page.

I would not recommend capitalizing filenames tho. Personal preference do to windows, programming languages, etc.