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Yes, Alta does use stop words. The easiest way to figure out if a stop word is being used is to try to search for the word itself on Alta. Often, you'll get zero results for stop words.

I noticed the following thing:
- If I search "recommend web site"

I will find pages in the top 10 that do not have the word "web" or "site'. These pages are even before some pages containing the 3 keywords.

Do you think it is linked to the theme strategy or only to Link Popularity?

I do not think that "web" and "site" are in the stop list because following your advice, I checked and I have results for these words.

I am very puzzled currently because I tried to produce some nice pages dedicated to one set of keywords. The results is good for Northernlight (probably old fashion now!) but 0 for AV.

So I checked again your site and forum and start to believe in this theme theory.

I would like to thank you for the information you provide. I started to learn SEO recently and I find this subject very very interesting.