Can someone explain this behaviour. If i type a particular phrase in google without quotes my site does not show up in the rankings at all. Yet when i put quotes around that phrase, I am on the second page. Does this make sense to anyone?
Makes sense to me, i think you'll find similar behaviour with the majority of key phrases. It's called phrase matching
Grinler when u put quotes around the phrase like "hi grinler" so google will search for the exact phrase while if u just search hi grinler then it will search either hi or grinler
I understand phrase matching but why wouldnt the search: apple pickers and "apple pickers" return the same results. If the phrase "apple pickers" is the more defined search, and you get a certain result, and then you do a loose search like: apple pickers wouldnt the better search result have those results that show those two words as a phrase? The algorithm just does not make sense. If I am looking for red balloons. And there are sites that match the phrase red balloons. And I search for "red balloons" or just red balloons, i would think the phrase matches would be the best results compared to results that contained one or the other. What is the worth of having sites come back to with the word red as their search result criteria, rather than results that contain both words next to each other.
apple pickers returns 59,200 results and "apple pickers" returns 6,440 results and only the first 2 results are same have a looks at third one and others
I may sound nuts, but when i posted this question the results were very different on those two types of search queries. Now you are right, they are pretty similar. No idea, maybe google was burping when I was testing this?
yea having quotes will reduce number or results because it will search the whole phrase in that site or that site wouldnt be included if the whole phrase is not found