They Call it Stop Words
They say stop words can cause problems when searching for phrases that include them. According to YOAST, the following is their list. However, any group of words can be considered by any SEO as stop words and they delete it when included in your posts.
- a
- about
- above
- after
- again
- against
- all
- am
- an
- and
- any
- are
- as
- at
- be
- because
- been
- before
- being
- below
- between
- both
- but
- by
- could
- did
- do
- does
- doing
- down
- during
- each
- few
- for
- from
- further
- had
- has
- have
- having
- he
- he’d
- he’ll
- he’s
- her
- here
- here’s
- hers
- herself
- him
- himself
- his
- how
- how’s
- I
- I’d
- I’ll
- I’m
- I’ve
- if
- in
- into
- is
- it
- it’s
- its
- itself
- let’s
- me
- more
- most
- my
- myself
- nor
- of
- on
- once
- only
- or
- other
- ought
- our
- ours
- ourselves
- out
- over
- own
- same
- she
- she’d
- she’ll
- she’s
- should
- so
- some
- such
- than
- that
- that’s
- the
- their
- theirs
- them
- themselves
- then
- there
- there’s
- these
- they
- they’d
- they’ll
- they’re
- they’ve
- this
- those
- through
- to
- too
- under
- until
- up
- very
- was
- we
- we’d
- we’ll
- we’re
- we’ve
- were
- what
- what’s
- when
- when’s
- where
- where’s
- which
- while
- who
- who’s
- whom
- why
- why’s
- with
- would
- you
- you’d
- you’ll
- you’re
- you’ve
- your
- yours
- yourself
- yourselves
That's the reason why it makes me wonder why my title sometimes is being edited without my knowledge. However, I wanted that stop word included so I edit it again to the original.
Anybody of you knows why these cause problems? And why a list of the other is not exactly what is in the list of other SEO?
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Thank you mate never make to effort to learn it but now it makes me think these words are very common. Does it really affect SEO performance? The best of it is there is a lot of how to in different niches that are ranked first in SERPs. Can anyone explain me this?
I did a post on stop words the other day that explains how it works: What are stop words?
Maybe the keywords are the ones considered by SEO and just disregarded the stops words.
Example:
How to Make Instant Ginger Tea Powder
The main keyword is Make Instant Ginger Tea Powder.
Right, if you put them in Jaxxy, only the actual parts of the keyword are in bold... everything else you can 'disregard'
Ask Jovo Jimmy, he can give you a plethora of reasons why stop words hurt your ranking. Thanks for this very helpful reference.
The link provided by Ryan is a good article but maybe I can find additional idea on the other side of the coin. Thank you.
Here's an article that might help you to understand stop words:
https://cseo.com/blog/google-stop-words-keywords-in-seo/
I hope that it helps you!
I am new to this but I do understand the importance of correct SEO. I have bookmarked this post so that I can return to it and read the comments from others. This is very interesting. Thank you for posting this. Certainly I am going to learn from this.
Take Care,
Anilise
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I just learned about these stop words. I need to learn more though. Now it makes sense why some of my targeted keywords are not either getting ranked or cut off. Thank you for sharing this with us. I have learned something new...
Thanks, Kisha for reading this post. I learned that from Yoast and it's good to try and observe the effects ridding all these stops words from a post.
You’re welcome, jimmy. Yes I am observing things now.