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Preference to Sites with Complete Search Phrase
Some sites still tend to rang higher that sites with the complete search terms in their url for example I am searching for "keyword 1 keyword 2". Sites with only keyword 1 ranked higher than a site which contained "keyword 1" and "keyword 2", even when the site's url was www dot keyword1 keyword2 dot com.
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Inappropriate?hi, ajk-
the best i can say right now, is that relevance is hard business. i will report this issue to our search quality team.
i may be able to get someone here to discuss it.
would you mind sharing the query you tried, and the result you had hoped for?
I’m disappointed this didn't work for you.
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Inappropriate?I did a search for "LO Mag". The site in the first position is "zeloproductions.com/" which has absolute no relationship to "LO Mag". The second option was "lomag.co.za", which was the appropriate result. If you gave preference to sites with the keyword in their url, the second option would have been first. Now, getting it second is not bad, but the site that is no 1 has NO RELEVANCE to the search term.
Another example:
"UX testing"
*User Experience Testing relating to software, websites & electronic devices
The first result is UXD (PC Hardware testing) [Repeated in result 12]
Second result is HP-UX (HP Unix OS)
Third is "Tools of the UX trade" (related but this person blogs once a month, half his site is affiliation and 1/3 of the content is pulled from other sites [which is bad in my book of quality])
Fourth is Netraker (1 paragraph mentioning Usability testing and it redirects - hardly quality)
Fifth is UXMatter (related)
Now in my search I didn't add the + which is to indicate both terms in order. I don't understand why by default SE's don't read it as such without having to add the +. It is natural for humans to ask something as they say it. They never primarily imply parts of it. Only if you can't get the whole term, do you expect to start looking for sites related to the bits.
Sorry, slightly went off topic but new issues arrive when you start discussing things. :)
I’m undecided
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Inappropriate?thanks for all that info. i talked to our search quality team, and and i'm hoping they'll drop in for a visit.
regardless, thanks, we totally appreciate this feedback!
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