: How to write content that uses keyword terms which are google stop words The keywords for our site comprises of words which are google stop words namely: thank you Is it better to write this

@Sarah324

How do you know that the words are stop words?

Stop words have a very specific definition - here's Wikipedia's:


Stop words is the name given to words
which are filtered out prior to, or
after, processing of natural language
data (text).


I can run a Google search for thank you and get relevant results and when I run a keyword tool analysis I see that the term "thank you" has about 4,090,000 monthly searches - that wouldn't work if Google were filtering these words.

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@Sarah324

Google is smart enough to know that "thank-you" and "thankyou" both mean "thank you". So trying to obfuscate it would be pointless.

Stop words are basically so common that trying to rank pages for them are pretty pointless. I wouldn't be optimistic about attaining rankings for them directly. Instead I would focus on alternative keywords that are synonyms and long tail search terms that use those search terms.

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