I was unaware that word order in a google search mattered. However, since it brings different results, I suppose it does. Jessica Alba . . . bring different results than Alba Jessica . . . seems odd to me does anyone have any experince with how word order affects search results? Thank you.
yep, it effects my results too for specific keywords that I target. no body ever types them in with the reverse order so I don't lose any SE traffic, but it definitely does give me different results.
I often use the keyword tool http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ It does not seem to recognize the difference in word order. I suppose as you said, with most phrases it won't matter. I just happened to be checking a couple words and all came up with different results. As some people target mispellings, I was wondering if anyone targeted the reverse order of popular words . . . What I can't seem to figure out, it why one site ranked hight with one word order, and lower with the other. I guess that algoriythm is smarter than I am.
and textlink targeting normally doesn't use reverse order for the words. normally you will want the correct order for text link anchors because people are more often going to type it in correctly than they will incorrectly. you just don't want to waste time targeting the reverse order, that's all really.
Thanks. Someone should start a DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME TRYING thread. I know there are so many bad ideas that get a lot more action than they should, just cause most of use want to try anything once to see if it works. I would love to see what has failed for everyone. I know I have somethings that just did not work, ideas or tactics. *** The biggest mistake I ever made was buying an ad, and not watching it every day. It was like a couple cents a day and I stopped watching. All of a sudden I was charged $XX per day and I was not pleased. Anyway, live and learn, I suppose. It was a mistake I wont make again. ***
It's not that hard to work both orders of a two-word phrase into the page content - that'll often work. http://www.google.com/search?source...LJ,GGLJ:2006-05,GGLJ:en&q=ottawa+psychologist http://www.google.com/search?source...LJ,GGLJ:2006-05,GGLJ:en&q=psychologist+ottawa No reason that couldn't work for at least some three or four word phrases. By the way, the plurals of both orders also give slightly different results - I try to optimize for those as well.
That makes sense because while it is performing an "and" search on the two terms, it is also looking at wheteher or not they appear together. "Jessica Alba" is more likely to appear as a phrase than "Alba Jessica" and a search engine would consider the idea you wanted to see those terms together. So it is comparing at least three sets of results, one for the phrase and one for documents where each word appears.