Haven't seen anything like this
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I personally haven't seen anything like this before. I am optimizing my first worldwide page. The rank checker at seomoz and another rankchecker as well says that I achieve rankings in the Us and in the UK as well for my 2-3 word terms. However if I copy a paste a whole sentence from either of my pages (8-10 words) google can not find my site. If I put the terms in quotes than it is ok, but it still cannot find the home page. Not any sentence with or without quotes from the home page, although this page has the most incoming links.
Anybody any idea how can it be?
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That's a spot-on answer from Alan.
A search term without quote marks is known as a Broad search, that's where you'll have loads of competition for any popular words that are included.
Put in the quote marks and you'll have a Phrase search, where the all of the words in the phrase form an actual part of the search, though not necessarily in order.
Put the search in brackets [keywords here] then you'll have an Exact search.
Regards
Simon
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When doing long tails searches you need to make sure there is no really competitive keywords in there.
Imagine you have this sentence on your website
Some obscure words real estateDoing a search for the first 3 words you would expect to rank
Some obscure wordsExtend it to the full sentence, and you have a lot of competition
Some obscure words real estateGenerally for a long tail you expect to rank, if you don’t have highly competitive keywords included, but always do a few to get a better idea
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