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Dashes and apostrophes

in the keyword list

         

bcc1234

10:58 pm on Jan 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

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How does google treat keywords with dashes and apostrophes?

If I want to target "cheap widget's refill" for example, do I use "cheap widget s refill" or "cheap widgets refill" or "cheap widget refill"?

What about dashes?

AWA, could you please check on this if possible?

poster_boy

11:10 pm on Jan 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

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In my experience, the keywords you've mentioned would be treated as separate, unique keywords.

In fact, I've seen keywords with the following symbols treated similarly: Periods, dashes, apostrophes, colons, forward slashes, plus signs, dollar signs, periods, ampersands, # symbol, accents (<-- an unauthorized list, just based on my experience)

bcc1234

11:42 pm on Jan 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

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So if I have

widgets
widget

in my list, and a user searches for "widget's", my ad won't show?

What about adding "widget s" or do I have to actually add "widget's" to the list?

RhinoFish

3:00 pm on Jan 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

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i think you need to specify your matching type for people to answer the question you've asked... broad, phrase, exact...

poster_boy

4:34 pm on Jan 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

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So if I have

widgets
widget

in my list, and a user searches for "widget's", my ad won't show?

In my experience, most of the time - the answer to your question is 'yes'. That said, Google does unpredictable synonym matching on a wide variety of queries, so sometimes it does show... usually unhighlighted or something... so I've made the decision to play it safe and submit all such variations.

lethal0r

11:27 am on Jan 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

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red-widget and red widget are the same thing.

red-widget takes precedence.

I had my best keyword in without the dash for ages and then added the one with a dash, thinking it would show seperately. but it showed instead of the original, without all the good history, and only made page 2 instead of high page 1.

rkocatas

11:38 pm on Jan 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

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