Stop Words No More! But You Should Not Care!
I was reading Dan’s Dan Thies blog earlier today and his new post Stop Words Are Dead! Did I Miss Another Memo? I came to realize how indifferent I am to this news. It is not news really, I have noticed this for a while now.
If you don’t know what Stop Words are, they are words such as “and”, “is”, “or” that were often ignored by major search engines. They often did not get indxes or returned in the SERPs becasue they were considered too common and so unique.
So SEO and content specialists often treid to avoid those as much as possible and write contents with fewer Stop Words. They would try to stay away from using those in their h1-h5 tags, title tags, article titles, and etc.
Why Should You Not Care?
If you are a legitimate website owner with a legitimate commercial or non commercial purpose, you should not care at all. It is the black hat SEO and content specialists who often updated their website to increase fake traffic to their website should worry about this. If you are online for long term, I say careless about such development and focus on natural content writing and build linking to improve your websites SEO.
January 9th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Nice post - I too am indifferent, more surprised that I hadn’t seen anyone post anything about it, when it’s been that way for quite a while.
January 15th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
thanks for the comment Dan. Google is getting smarter by days and natural content writing is the way to go.
By the way I visit your blog almost everyday.