Tilde + On-page Optimization

[motorpod]

I'm analyzing my Hispanic site www.escolares.net, and I noticed that on-page optimization rank with an F pages using a tilde in target keywords.

Does anybody know if  SeoMoz software can completely understand in their analysis special characters as tildes?

Cristian Majluf

[Catalyste]

Hi Cristian,

I'm not sure what do SEOMoz think about it, but I am really unsure that Google will take the tilde in consideration when ranking your site. Of course you should use it in text since it's part of a good spanish grammary. But a most of tje people I know in Latin America do their search without the tilde in Espana etc... And I personnaly don't add them to page title etc of spanish site I do for my clients.

Hope this help you making yourself an opinion about that question !

[Cyrus-Shepard]

Hi Cristian,

Sounds like a bug in the software. Thanks for letting us know. Do you have any specific examples the engineers can look at?

I'm going to ping the SEOmoz help team (help@seomoz.org) and let them know. Again, thanks for the heads up.

[motorpod]

Hi Cyrus,

I think it is absolutly a bug in the software for the spanish community.

If you analize "tipos de línea" (look at the tilde in the i word), you will notice the bug in the on-page optimizssation section, because it does not understand that línea is the same as linea. So for example, on-page thinks that the title does not use the main keyword that we are analizing, then, grading with an F my webpage...

Please let me know if it is really a bug or not

Any feedback you need, I'll be here!

[motorpod]

BTW... great blog!