How do SE's see abbreviated queries.
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Do search engines pay attention to periods in abbreviated queries? If I use Mt. Bachelor all over my site, would SE's not rank my site well for queries that use Mt Bachelor?
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They are looked at as spaces just like hyphens. As far as I remember, Matt Cutts says the only symbols that count as a character are underscores. Everything else is a space.
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They are smart enough to figure it out. Just did searches to "mt kilimanjaro" v "mt. kilimanjaro" and the results returned were identical (meaning they consider them identical).
However, a search for "mount kilimanjaro" produced slightly different results so "mount v mt" usage on site may affect rankings but a period wont.
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