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On to my?
If you are targetting the keyword idge, and your title says widgets, does google call it a match since "idge" is inside widgets? What if you target the keyword "widge" since widgets starts with widge? Or it would totally look for widgets? That's called stemming, right?
Is it any different if instead of in the Title we're talking about inside the url?
If there is no stemming which I read somewhere, then that's why people put dashes in their urls?
It's amazing how much there is to learn about this google.
Unless you are optimising for Altavista [webmasterworld.com].
Correct, there is no stemming, see The Basics of Google Search [google.com] where they write:
To provide the most accurate results, Google does not use "stemming" or support "wildcard" searches. In other words, Google searches for exactly the words that you enter in the search box. Searching for "googl" or "googl*" will not yield "googler" or "googlin". If in doubt, try both forms: "airline" and "airlines," for instance.
I bet webmasterworld comes out #1 in google for a search on widgets since everyone here talks about it so much
not yet - checked results until #200. ;)
