Choosing Keywords for your Website-Stop Words
When choosing keywords for your website do bear in mind that some words are normally ignored by the search engines. These are the small join words in a sentence like “and”, “if” etc although it does depend on the context in which they are used. I am not going to go into that here, this is just a general overview. The basic point is there is no point making one of your keywords a stop word in general, although as you will see from the list below the words web and website are normally stop words however for website designers it is still relevant to optimise your website for those words. As you see it is a matter of context sometimes.
Stop words include most abbreviations, shorthand for countries eg UK etc plus the following;
a, about, above, according, across, actually, after, afterwards, again, against, all, almost, alone, along, already, also, although, always, am, among, amongst, an, and, another, any, anyhow, anyone, anything, anywhere, are, aren, aren’t, around, as, at, be, became, because, become, becomes, becoming, been, before, beforehand, begin, beginning, behind, being, below, beside, besides, between, beyond, billion, both, but, buy, by, ca, can, can’t, cannot, caption, cc, click, cm, co, com, copy, could, couldn, couldn’t, did, didn, didn’t, do, does, doesn, doesn’t, don, don’t, down, during, each, edu, eg, eight, eighty, either, else, elsewhere, end, ending, enough, etc, even, ever, every, everyone, everything, everywhere, except, few, fifty, find, first, five, for, former, formerly, forty, found, four, free, from, further, get, go, gov, gt, had, has, hasn, hasn’t, have, haven, haven’t, he, he’d, he’ll, he’s, height, help, hence, her, here, here’s, hereafter, hereby, herein, hereupon, hers, herself, him, himself, his, home, homepage, how, however, hr, ht, htm, html, http, hundred, i, i’d, i’ll, i’m, i’ve, id, ie, if, in, inc, indeed, information, instead, into, is, isn’t, it, it’s, its, itself, join, last, later, latter, least, length, less, let, let’s, like, likely, ltd, ma, made, make, makes, many, maybe, meantime, meanwhile, mg, microsoft, might, million, miss, ml, mm, mo, more, moreover, most, mostly, mr, mrs, much, must, my, myself, namely, neither, net, never, nevertheless, new, next, nine, ninety, no, nobody, none, nonetheless, noone, nor, not, nothing, now, nowhere, of, off, often, on, once, one, one’s, only, onto, or, org, other, others, otherwise, our, ours, ourselves, out, over, overall, own, page, per, perhaps, rather, re, recent, recently, reserved, ring, same, seem, seemed, seeming, seems, seven, seventy, several, she, she’d, she’ll, she’s, should, shouldn’t, since, site, six, sixty, so, some, somehow, someone, something, sometime, sometimes, somewhere, St, still, stop, such, taking, ten, text, test, than, that, that’ll, that’s, the, their, them, themselves, then, thence, there, there’ll, there’s, thereafter, thereby, therefore, therein, thereupon, these, they, they’d, they’ll, they’re, they’ve, thirty, this, those, though, thousand, three, through, throughout, thru, thus, to, together, too, toward, towards, trillion, tv, twenty, two, under, unless, unlike, unlikely, until, up, upon, us, use, used, using, very, via, was, wasn’t, we, we’d, we’ll, we’re, we’ve, web, webpage, website, welcome, well, were, weren, weren’t, what, what’ll, what’s, whatever, when, whence, whenever, where, whereafter, whereas, whereby, wherein, whereupon, wherever, whether, which, while, who, who’d, who’ll, who’s, whoever, null, whole, whom, whomever, whose, why, width, will, with, within, without, won, won’t, would, wouldn’t, yes, yet, you, you’d, you’ll, you’re, you’ve, your, yours, yourself, yourselves