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breddie
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Headline keywords separated by (,) or (-) - 1/9/2006 18:32:27
From the perspective of the major SE's, are the following hypothectical headlines likely to produce different results?
((keywords: apples oranges bananas))
<h1>Free! Apples-Oranges-Bananas</h1>
<h1>Free! Apples, Oranges, Bananas</h1>
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RE: Headline keywords separated by (,) or (-) - 1/10/2006 12:00:46
you could always use "fruit salad" ?!
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RE: Headline keywords separated by (,) or (-) - 1/10/2006 16:07:49
The hyphen is a delimiter. I am not sure what a comma is viewed at in SERPs. I think it will have different results.
So based on that I did two searches by cut and pasting the text you have.
Free! Apples-Oranges-Bananas produced 7899 results.
Free! Apples, Oranges, Bananas produced 1,930,000 results.
Pretty much answers that one. I would target the latter phrase from a numbers perspective. Which traffic will be more targeted and easier to convert? Only log file analyses would answer that one.
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Brian
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RE: Headline keywords separated by (,) or (-) - 1/10/2006 18:28:01
Womble, Dave & Reflect...Thanks for the input. Regarding Reflect's solution...why didn't I think of doing that?!(Duh-h)
All's well that ends well,
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Reflect
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RE: Headline keywords separated by (,) or (-) - 1/11/2006 14:42:33
Nothing but a thing, hind site is always twenty twenty.
Keep in mind just because one phrase pulls in ten fold searches is it really the phrase you want to target? That is where the fun part begins. Quantity VS. conversions is where the 64 dollar question is.
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Brian
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RE: Headline keywords separated by (,) or (-) - 1/11/2006 15:41:14
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I would target the latter phrase from a numbers perspective curious - why would you want to be in the group that show over a million hits instead of the smaller one?
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Reflect
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RE: Headline keywords separated by (,) or (-) - 1/12/2006 14:46:02
With only looking at numbers I try to go after the more aggressive results. However if you look through my posts here over the years I have shown a pattern of starting with a generic term for my genre that fits my audience. I then drill down to more expanded and refined terms all the way down to the "money" pages. By throwing a larger net you get more fish. always remember though it is not about raw numbers, it is about getting terms that convert shoppers.
Sorry for not going deeper on my last post.
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Brian
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