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    • ZakGottlieb71
      ZakGottlieb71 last edited by

      Exact match is perfectly easy for me to get my head around - broad match, not so much! Take the phrase, "removing blueberry stains." Is the broad match data for this that I'm seeing in the Google keyword tool for searches that involve any of these particular words, in any phrase, in any order - just so long as they're all there?

      Any help with this concept would be much appreciated.

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      • AlanMosley
        AlanMosley last edited by

        Yes

        if some one types "removing blueberry stains" and nothing else, it is an exact macth

        phrase

        when removing blueberry stains wear safety galsses

        broad

        I dropped the blueberries while removing my safety glasses and got stains on my pants

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        • ZakGottlieb71
          ZakGottlieb71 @AlanMosley last edited by

          Thanks for this, but I was referring specifically to the search query aspect. What does it mean, search-wise, if "removing blueberry stains" receives 10,000 hits a month... Does it mean that there have been that many search queries (and ONLY that many, as a ballpark) which contain all of the words "removing," "blueberry" and "stains" in any particular order, and amongst any other number of words?

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          • AlanMosley
            AlanMosley @ZakGottlieb71 last edited by

            If it said broad 10,000 then yes

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            • Francisco_Meza
              Francisco_Meza last edited by

              You will learn way more detail here: http://support.google.com/adwords/certification/bin/static.py?hl=en&guide=23648&page=guide.cs

              This is for the Google Advertising Professionals.

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