Webmaster forum - keyword(s) - singular vs plural

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keyword(s) - singular vs plural

Terry

2007-07-07, 6:21 pm

Everything I have read has stated as fact that singular is equal to
plural in search engines. Google does not treat them as such in the case
of "circus skill(s)" My circusskills.html is on the first page for the
plural and not found in the first 830 for the singular. (Yes, I was so
sure that it should show I went through the whole results.)

I have changed the page since it was crawled so use the cached version.
Following is the appropriate parts of the page:

<head>

<title>Circus Skills (Juggling and Balance) bought to you by Still
Having a Ball.</title>

<meta name="Description" content="How to juggle/make juggling balls,
ride/make your own rola bola, and dollar bill Origami.">

<meta name="keywords" content="juggle stilts rola bola circus skills
Origami">
</head>

<body>
<h1>Circus Skills</b> Brought to you by<br><span class="logo">Still
Having a Ball</span></h1>
<p>We teach juggling, unicycling, stilt walking, and rola-bola skills.
Instructions for learning and constructing (except the unicycle) will be
added soon.</p>
</body>

This is all the places that either word is in/on the page. All cases are
plural - the page can only be found by using the plural.

Theorem: keywords are singular/plural sensitive.

--
TK
http://wejuggle2.com/
Still Having a Ball

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Tom J

2007-07-07, 6:21 pm

Terry wrote:
> Everything I have read has stated as fact that singular is equal to
> plural in search engines. Google does not treat them as such in the
> case of "circus skill(s)" My circusskills.html is on the first page
> for the plural and not found in the first 830 for the singular.
> (Yes,
> I was so sure that it should show I went through the whole results.)

Just why should it be listed some other place? You have a 1st page
listing!! I went to Google and typed in "circus skill" and in fact
both singular and plural listings popped up intermixed, so Google does
treat both the same. Maybe if you did have the singular in your
website somewhere it would be listed a 2nd time, but most likely not.

Tom J

Terry

2007-07-08, 6:16 pm

Tom J wrote (after reading without comprehension that):
> Terry wrote:
>
>
>
> Just why should it be listed some other place? You have a 1st page
> listing!! I went to Google and typed in "circus skill" and in fact
> both singular and plural listings popped up intermixed, so Google does
> treat both the same. Maybe if you did have the singular in your
> website somewhere it would be listed a 2nd time, but most likely not.
>

If you put "circus skill" in google, you did not find my site on any
page of the results. Yes, some results are listed singular and plural
mixed. They are a different set of results - the singular and plural are
not treated the same - not even close. If they were treated the same,
the singular version would at least list that page in the first 830
pages found.

<g>All I have to do is have everyone search for "circus skills" - no
problem. Hey, even better, I will just set everyone's homepage to my
site.</g>

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TK
http://wejuggle2.com/
Still Having a Ball

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Tom J

2007-07-08, 6:17 pm

Terry wrote:

>
> If you put "circus skill" in google, you did not find my site on any
> page of the results.

In that case, I suggest you go to your index page and add a sentence
that uses the words circus skill, in singular, that is related to the
rest of your site. It most likely will show up in a few days. Just
having "key words" and "descriptions" without content doesn't work
well with most search engines these days.

Tom J

andyf

2007-07-09, 8:22 am

quote:

If you put "circus skill" in google, you did not find my site on any
page of the results. Yes, some results are listed singular and plural
mixed. They are a different set of results - the singular and plural are
not treated the same - not even close. If they were treated the same,
the singular version would at least list that page in the first 830
pages found.

<g>All I have to do is have everyone search for "circus skills" - no
problem. Hey, even better, I will just set everyone's homepage to my
site.</g>

If you want to get listed for keyword circus skill then try getting more backlinks with anchor text as " circus skill " also target this keyword while directory submission, this will surely help you, also use this keyword in your title tag.