Official Google answer: I noticed that, for example, "Texas widget", and "widget Texas" return different results. I think the gist is the same but the results were different. I'd like to include both terms/phrases on my page but wouldn't that be considered keyword spamming?

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I noticed that, for example, "Texas widget", and "widget Texas" return different results. I think the gist is the same but the results were different. I'd like to include both terms/phrases on my page but wouldn't that be considered keyword spamming?

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Question

Views

Will Google consider Yahoo! Directory and BOTW as sources of paid links?

1,062

How would Google consider (and rank) a site that uses meta data and URLs in a language (Italian) and has the H1 of the pages in another (English) considered more appealing for users?

825

What is the best way to serve different content according to user country IP (legal reasons)?

790

Love the new "real time" results displaying on SERP. Is it possible to distinguish these from the other results with a different background colour or surrounding border?

655

Does Googlebot use inference when spidering - having crawled site.com/article/page1.htm and /page2.htm, can it guess at the existence of a /page3.htm and crawl it?

714