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Google cannot deal with grammatical variants of words. Any solution?

         

bencuri

2:50 am on Jan 20, 2022 (gmt 0)



I have a revelant site title on my site page, with one of the keywords in the title being: "resizeable". This word have two forms in grammar, and both are correct and used for the same purpose: "resizeable" and "resizable". However, when I test searching for my site in Google typing the title of my page with "resizeable ......." in the phrase to be looked for, Google changes the phrase automatically to "resizable....", indicating that it is searching for a Recommended form of the phrase instead. But this way, my site doesn't show up in the search results at all. However, if I click the link where Google offers: "Search for resizeable.... instead", my site shows up at first place in the search results. Now, you can all have a clue why this is quite annoying, because you can see that my content is so unique, that even if the page has just been posted a few days ago, it is already at 1st place, but visitors won't find it, because most people doesn't care about (not even notice) that Google automatically changes the phrase to be looked for, and will conclude, that my page simply doesn't exist. Moreover, the situation is even more complicated, because depending of which one of my gadgets I use to test this thing in their borwsers, in some of them the search works this way, in some others, Google doesn't change the phrase to be looked for automatically, but only offers to search for a Recommended form if you click the link on the top. So it is not a good solution for this problem to change the keyword in my page title to the one that Youtube recommends, because you can see on some gadgets this will have an unfavourable result, that is: users who are searching for the form not recommended by Google won't find the page then. Any ideas what would be the solution to make Google rank the page at the same position in either cases when different grammatical variants of the title keyword is used? Because it seems at the moment, that Google doesn't consider grammatical variants of words, when those variants have the same meaning.

engine

10:07 am on Jan 21, 2022 (gmt 0)

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Welcome to WebmasterWorld.

I've seen this many times.

It's the eternal challenge of internationalisation, or is that internationalization.

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Google thinks it's doing better at languages and location.
Anecdotally, it feels like we're already doing much better with getting languages & location right, even without hreflang / geotargeting settings -- with or without any specific ML model. I could see that all getting better over time, but crystal balls are not my speciality :)

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aristotle

1:37 am on Jan 22, 2022 (gmt 0)

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So it is not a good solution for this problem to change the keyword in my page title to the one that Youtube recommends, because you can see on some gadgets this will have an unfavourable result, that is: users who are searching for the form not recommended by Google won't find the page then.


But if most searchers use the recommended form, as is apparently the case, then you should get a lot more traffic if you make the change. Also, you may need to give the algorithm more time to adjust its results for all the gadgets.

aristotle

12:47 pm on Jan 22, 2022 (gmt 0)

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To summarize my previous post, you should always use the same spelling that most searchers use.
However, if I click the link where Google offers: "Search for resizeable.... instead", my site shows up at first place in the search results. Now, you can all have a clue why this is quite annoying, because you can see that my content is so unique, that even if the page has just been posted a few days ago, it is already at 1st place

I would bet that the only reason it's in first place is because the spelling in your title matches the spelling in that particular search term, and this is the only thing that's "unique". So that it's the page title, not the content, that's unique.