Exact match vs partial match
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gman777
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@sub001 Ah, my bad. I wasn't too clear. On some instances, there are cases where someone which do not target exactly the keyword, is ranking in the top 10 for it.
In my example I'm looking for someone who has refrigerator for sale in his title/meta/body yet he's ranking for best + keyword as well, so there's the relevancy factor, and I thought that maybe someone could enlight me.
In my example I'm looking for someone who has refrigerator for sale in his title/meta/body yet he's ranking for best + keyword as well, so there's the relevancy factor, and I thought that maybe someone could enlight me.
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With LSI there really is no way to estimate this.
Google doesn't take your search literally. They will detect "for sale" means something, refrigerator means another thing and so on, and then they'll look up thousands of similar searches and will present you with results tied to those searches.
The only way it would work like you say is when you use "verbatim search".
Google doesn't take your search literally. They will detect "for sale" means something, refrigerator means another thing and so on, and then they'll look up thousands of similar searches and will present you with results tied to those searches.
The only way it would work like you say is when you use "verbatim search".
The answer is still the same: you will always be compared to the competition for each given search term.
Yes, if your page is optimized for "best refrigerator for sale", it will rank for "refrigerator for sale", too (and vice-a-versa). But there is no way to assign a percentage of "relevancy" (or whatever) because the strength of the competition will be different in each case.
Makes sense?
Yes, if your page is optimized for "best refrigerator for sale", it will rank for "refrigerator for sale", too (and vice-a-versa). But there is no way to assign a percentage of "relevancy" (or whatever) because the strength of the competition will be different in each case.
Makes sense?
