plural vs singular, or both

Hello,

I had assumed that google or other search engines could recognize
a plural of a noun. However I just found that actually they treated plural
and singular nound as different words. So, should we put both as
keywords in meta-tag?

Alex

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"Alex Shi" <chpshi (AT) stonix (DOT) com> wrote

Hello,

I had assumed that google or other search engines could recognize
a plural of a noun. However I just found that actually they treated plural
and singular nound as different words. So, should we put both as
keywords in meta-tag?

Alex

Alex Shi wrote:

I had assumed that google or other search engines could recognize
a plural of a noun. However I just found that actually they treated
plural and singular nound as different words. So, should we put both
as keywords in meta-tag?

Forget about meta-tag keywords (unless you *really* know why you want
them -- certainly not for Google). If you create a lot of content
(which is good for search engines), you will naturally cover both
variants (singular and plural). If not you might cheat, e.g. for a
product catalog write "Scanner" in the header, and "Scanners" in the
navigations, which makes sense anyway.

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"Philipp Lenssen" <info (AT) outer-court (DOT) com> wrote

Alex Shi wrote:


I had assumed that google or other search engines could recognize
a plural of a noun. However I just found that actually they treated
plural and singular nound as different words. So, should we put both
as keywords in meta-tag?


Forget about meta-tag keywords (unless you *really* know why you want
them -- certainly not for Google). If you create a lot of content
(which is good for search engines), you will naturally cover both
variants (singular and plural). If not you might cheat, e.g. for a
product catalog write "Scanner" in the header, and "Scanners" in the
navigations, which makes sense anyway.

--
Google Blogoscoped
http://blog.outer-court.com

Keywords tag does not hurt for ALL other engines,so we include it on all of
our top ranked sites.
Google will not count it but others do.

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"Philipp Lenssen" <info (AT) outer-court (DOT) com> wrote

Alex Shi wrote:


I had assumed that google or other search engines could recognize
a plural of a noun. However I just found that actually they treated
plural and singular nound as different words. So, should we put both
as keywords in meta-tag?


Forget about meta-tag keywords (unless you *really* know why you want
them -- certainly not for Google). If you create a lot of content
(which is good for search engines), you will naturally cover both
variants (singular and plural). If not you might cheat, e.g. for a
product catalog write "Scanner" in the header, and "Scanners" in the
navigations, which makes sense anyway.

I beleive he is talking about title tags.


You would be better off tweaking two seperate pages - one for each form.

Consider the following two searches:

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...=online+school


http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...online+schools

Tim


Tim