I looked at a number of lists of "stop words" and one list said that the word "home" is a stop word in google....well I am trying to optimize a site for the term "home improvement" "Home repair" etc...so, if the word "home" is in fact a stop word, how would I go about trying to optimize my site for phrases that contain that word? It makes sense to me that the word home would be a discounted word since the majority of sites have sitewide links to their homepage and generally title the link "home". any ideas?
Using the word house might be one way to get around the issue. But it might not even be an issue. Optimize for home and monitor your success.