Stop character?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by richard.has.j, Sep 28, 2007.

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    Hi.........
    I m confused about this topic (Stop character). My friend asked to me what is Stop character?. I could not give the correct answer. So pls help me.
    thnx
     
    richard.has.j, Sep 28, 2007 IP
  2. devat

    devat Peon

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  3. lovekills_s

    lovekills_s Well-Known Member

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    Good post Devat..

    These are actually Stop words which are usually ignored by the search engines while publishing SERPS for a user query..

    An Example is:

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4HPAB_enIN236IN236&q=ice+and+cream

    Do you see what google says down below the search box?
    "
    The "AND" operator is unnecessary -- we include all search terms by default. [details]"

    here "AND" is the stop word which is rather ignored..
     
    lovekills_s, Sep 28, 2007 IP
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    aira Active Member

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    Stop characters are certain characters found in web page URL (i.e. = & ? )

    Stop words are words that are meaningless (i.e. a, an, of, the, with)
     
    aira, Oct 1, 2007 IP
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    G'day friends,

    Certain characters, such as ampersand (&), equals sign (=), and question mark (?), when in a web page's URL, tip off a search engine that the page in question is dynamic. Search engines are cautious of indexing dynamic pages for fear of spider traps, thus pages that contain stop characters in their URL run the risk of not getting indexed and becoming part of the "Invisible Web." Google won't crawl more than one dynamic level deep. So dynamic pages with stop characters in its URL should get indexed if a static page links to it. Eliminating stop characters from all URLs on your site will go a long way in ensuring that your entire site gets indexed by Google.

    Thnx
     
    gilbertimlay, Jan 24, 2008 IP