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    • BPIAnalytics
      BPIAnalytics last edited by

      Quick question: if you using a parantheses around a keyword, do search bots still recognize the keyword?  Fox ex:

      Welcome to a website about the National Basketball Association (NBA).

      Will the bots recognize that I'm trying to optimize to NBA and not (NBA)?  Is this different for tags vs. actual body copy?

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        LinkoPlus last edited by

        I have the same question about inserting parentheses for a keyword like this: (Cannabidiol)

        I do believe Google bot can crawl and index correctly the word "Cannabidiol" even if it's inside parentheses and even if it's a meta tag (title or description). Is there anybody who could test this by optimizing a page with a focus keyword used in parentheses and had good ranking for that keyword (without parentheses)?

        Thanks

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          BPIAnalytics @ufmedia last edited by

          Thanks Ryan, that's what I thought.

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          • ufmedia
            ufmedia last edited by

            Assuming this is on-page copy and not a title tag, then I'd say you're fine.

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