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Spaces in your key phrase

Multiple spaces

         

nuevojefe

6:55 am on Feb 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Hola,

When I check my links and search terms using programs like xenu and other analyzers, i notice that some of my key phrases that fall at the end of one side of the document appear with multiple spaces.

Ok, attempting to be clearer, i use dream... and say i'm typing purple widgets, but purple is on the far right side of the page code then widgets is on the far left of the next line down, then when I have a analyzer bot check the code it shows like this: purple widgets or sometimes with even more spaces. Will that not be seen as a keyphrase, and instead as two seperate keywords?

If so, what are you supposed to do about that? Obviously one long line isn't an option, and it's not what everyone else is doing.

Thanks!

DerekH

10:28 pm on Feb 20, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



The rules of HTML state that multiple spaces are equivalent to a single space.... Any amount of white space is converted to a single "gap".

What are you supposed to do about it? Read the HTML standards and then relax.

Check your HTML with W3C if you aren't happy.

You'll be fine with what you've got. If your page passes the W3C validation tests, (and if it doesn't, fix it!), spend time doing what you wrote the website for - conveying content and message.
DerekH

nuevojefe

11:37 pm on Feb 20, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Thanks Derek,

Pretty much what I assumed, I just wondered why these programs didn't return it in the fashion that a bot would see it as.

Welp, numero uno for a few 2.2million+ phrases, something must be ok.

Thanks,

Jeff