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For example, if you have a page with the following content:
'We are selling the following products: '
'product1, product2, product3, product4'
OR 'product1 & product2 & product3 & product4'
OR 'product1 product2 product3 product4' (e.g. seperated by different rows of a table)
Is there a difference in the ranking when searching for a single product name (e.g. product1)?
Is someone else seeing influences of different separators?
We've been using dlls to convert strings for some time (e.g. '&' to '_a_', '=' to '_e_' and, though Google apparently is doing much better spidering traditional query strings, I can tell you that what what we do gets sites spidered with 1,000s of pages...
So while they are spidering traditional query strings better now, to me, it's worth it to alter... frankly, I simply wouldn't use traditional after seeing how well ours are doing... besides, I think it will always have some issues with multiple parametrs in the query string (e.g. 5 instances of &, etc.).
you are right: '&' is treated as a word. Therefore 'product1 & product2' is different compared to the other cases. However, do you know that a comma doesn't have any influence for the ranking or do you just expect this?
Yes... I have mucho experience on this (and this subject keeps coming up!)...We've been using dlls to convert strings for some time (e.g. '&' to '_a_', '=' to '_e_' and, though Google apparently is doing much better spidering traditional query strings, I can tell you that what what we do gets sites spidered with 1,000s of pages...
So while they are spidering traditional query strings better now, to me, it's worth it to alter... frankly, I simply wouldn't use traditional after seeing how well ours are doing... besides, I think it will always have some issues with multiple parametrs in the query string (e.g. 5 instances of &, etc.).
I'm pretty sure the topic is on-page text, not URLs. ;)
I now worry if my Google comma tests were 100% objective, but I'm pretty sure that commas don't count.
