A question about quotes being used with keywords/tags?

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   mailxpressposted 14 years ago

   Hello,
   Has anyone ever heard of this.  I read an article I found at Redgage which tells people to do a search with quotes around their search.  Let me give you an example.
   
   I go to google.com to do this search without quotes:  earn money online and these were the results:  152,000,000 for earn money online.
   
   Then I did a search for the same phrase with quotes:  "earn money online" and these were the results:  1,750,000
   
   I have a few websites I created and today I took the time to add the quotes to each individual keyword.  I chose two websites I have created and I have a free hit counter on both of them.  I will keep track of the results and if it works to getting indexed higher to search engines I will let all of you know.
   
   Has anyone practiced this method?  And if so do you feel it has made a difference?
   
   I'm very curious if this is true.
   
   mailxpress

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   thisisoliposted 14 years ago

   I think you are misunderstanding the use of quotes in search engines.
   
   Using quotes around a phrase in Google means that it will search for the exact phrase, where as normally it will do a much broader search, for example,
   
   a search for
   
   PC Games
   
   could bring up a site which has the following text
   
   My prefered games platform has always been the PC.
   
   However "PC Games" would only bring up text such as
   
   I prefer PC games to consoles.
   
   Putting quotes around the text in your hubs will not give you any SEO benefit, and may put off your readers!

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      mailxpressposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Hi,
      Oh man, I thought maybe they meant it would help me get my URLs indexed higher than others.  I understand.
      Do you know if it would hurt my URLs being indexed?  I'll leave the quotes in the keywords to the two website keywords I tweaked.  Either way I'll let you know if I see an increase with traffic.  Thank you
      mailxpress

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   sunforgedposted 14 years ago

   lol, broad vs exact search
   
   
   Google cheat sheet = http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html

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      thisisoliposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      That's a pretty useful link actually!

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      mailxpressposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Hi,
      I'm checking the link out now.  Thanks. 
      mailxpress

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   thisisoliposted 14 years ago

   It might not hurt your rankings necessarily, but it won't give them any SEO benefit.

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