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I'm trying to figure out the best way to put the keyword "dog collar" into my store search.

As I noted in another thread, only 3 of my collars appeared on the first 3 or 4 pages of the Shop Page search surrounded by many collars from 2 specific sellers. Then several pages of items that were not dog collars (many not even dog products) mostly by one or two other sellers, then on page 25 or so a few more of mine. I stopped looking at that point as there were many more pages. I believe Auctiva Jeff looked at some of the other store records and may have seen keyword spamming.

These are the the options I can think of to put in my items(xxx and yyy are just other keywords):

• xxx,dog,collar,yyy
  
• xxx,dog,collar,dog collar,yyy
  
• xxx,dog collar,yyy
  

The first is the way most of my dog collar listing are currently set
The second is the way the handful of my dog collar that made the shop search are set

I'm not sure why "dog,collar" would be work differently than "dog collar". Apparently the item title is not included in the Shop search, just the hidden keywords which aid in keyword spamming.

Are there any keyword experts out there who know the best way to set this up for both AC and for search engines like Google or Yahoo?

Thanks.
Max

This message has been edited. Last edited by: BarkinWoofer,

I am not an expert, but I believe when you put in the comma after dog, it is seeing it as one word, a four letter word, dog, So just put dog collar without the comma. Hope that helps!

Hi, I am not an expert either, but I beleive what Elaine said to be true.
Rose

Max,

It is because the key word "dog" - will come up when someone searches for dog. "Dog collar" would too but you would be fighting with everyone else who had dog as a keyword. The same with "collar". But the keyword combination of "dog collar" is much more specific. I suppose it can be misleading with the terminology of keyword - one word think that it was meant to be just that - 1 word. However, it can be more than 1 word. If often times helps. For instance if someone were looking for a book by Isaac Asimov and I used the Keywords Isaac, Asimov. Then everything that had Isaac as a keyword would show - not very helpful. Asimov - would be more helpful. But "Isaac Asimov" would be the best for the results that I wanted to achieve.

I would do both...Dog....Dog collar.....Then you cover both.....that is how i do mine and it works for me.

Terry,

I would agree - however without having the "dog collar" in the group you would be losing out on a big audience. I guess was the point I was trying to make - and perhaps not doing a good job at it.