How does a search engine bot distinguish keywords from compound keywords and keyword phrases? For example, if a search engine bot encounters the words search engine optimisation while crawling a webpage, how many (compound) keywords does it count? Will search, engine, optimisation, search engine and search engine optimisation each be counted or only search engine optimisation? Is it possible to "force" a search engine bot to treat several consecutive words (compound keywords or a keyphrase) as one, for example by placing tags around them?
I don't think they can. I can't, this is one of the most secretive parts of the algos. It gets really hard at this point. The algo is looking not only for anchor text, but also the context of the link, that is the page title of the inbound link, and the metatags etc. Thus I would say that there is no need to force the bot? (help me here?) Just write naturally, since anything unnatural tends do harm. Need the question clarifed a bit further really.
Grüezi! Cheers for your reply. With no one answering my question I already suspected it may be a tough question. When going through the keyword density list of this thread I encountered some odd compound keywords and keyword phrases, for example "a search engine", "keywords and" and "it possible to force". These are clearly not meant to be counted, though "search engine optimisation" is. So I was wondering whether placing tags such as <span>...</span>, <a>...</a>, <h1>...</h1>, etc., around compound keywords or keyword phrases could ensure that only these are treated as proper keywords by search engine bots. Does this work?
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