Do keywords have to be grammatically correct

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When I use Jaaxy, I might get a keyword like "training dog walk leash" that has monthly searches of 260 and a QSR of 21. However, it is not grammatically correct. That is, I would not be able to use it in content because it would not fit grammatically in a sentence and would be an obvious keyword.

Could I use "training dog walk leash" as a site header or in a meta description even though it is not grammatically correct?

I suspect I could use it as a domain name.

I run into many grammatical issues with keywords.

Thanks.

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Hi.

In my experience - in some cases, if you type in a grammatically incorrect keyword into google, it'll say something like:

"showing results for..." (insert what google guessed you actually meant)

So it appears it has a grammar engine that knows if what you are typing makes sense. If not, it *may* try to correct it, and show results that it thinks people meant to look for. In a way, I suppose it's trying to "be human".

If that is correct, and also based on the training here, I would avoid using incorrect grammar.

All the best, Mark

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I'm glad you asked this, but it doesn't seem you've gotten a lot of responses or answers. I find keywords like this too and never really know how to use them. I have another WA member point out to me that if I removed an S in a word in my title, it raised the searches from 200 to 750. Wow, right!?

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They have to make sense, I remember that quite clearly in the training

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I know what you mean some do not make sense and do not flow in a post either never sure what to do, I sometimes move it around a bit to see if that will work

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Actually I think.put it in the meta keyword part. It's funny I kind of agree there as when I google search myself I don't grammatically search so to speak I might google a few different ways till I find something worth reading eg. today I searched best nappies Australia.. Not what are the best nappies in Australia... So yeah do it! Good luck ;)

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Hi Douglas, I know that Kyle has said not to use a search term like that. And it he might well be right. But I've often found it great to break some rules. One of the websites I'm going to build has a "bad grammar" keyword search term. But it has almost 700 searches a month and only 6 competitive pages that use that term. My idea is to use it and make a post that questions what exactly they are looking for, and ask for suggestions. All the while using that post to target that niche and leading them to what I want to promote. I figure I might foul up using that term, but then again I don't want to miss any low hanging fruit that may be ripe for the picking. Worse comes to worse, I have a blog to delete. Best case scenario, I have a page one ranking for 700 searches a month

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You should always write for the user not for search engines. That's one of the main things I learned here in WA. No matter how good a keyword is in terms of searches and competition, you should avoid it if it doesn't make sense, or if its to much grammatically incorrect,

With that being said, I think you can still use this keyword for a review post. It can be something

Training Dog Walk Leash - What are the best leashes for training your dog

I would not use it without a subtext (which is perfectly fine to add).

I'm interested to see what other more experienced folks have to say.

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The subtext is a great idea.

Thanks.

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