Keywords and stop words

[Michael_Myles_Himself]

Hello,

I'm trying to rank my page for this keyword:

"Rehab Royal Oak Michigan"

But when you use that in a sentence, it just doesn't work. To make it grammatically correct I need to use "Rehab in Royal Oak Michigan" But now i'm using a stop word and i'm not sure if this counts it as a synonym or not - can someone help?

Thanks!!

[brettmandoes]

It makes sense semantically and search engines (particularly Google) are able to understand language better than most people think. Go ahead and add "in", and furthermore if Royal Oak is a city, use proper grammar and add the comma before the state. It's not going to be a problem to add it, but it may be a problem for you to have poor grammar on your site as proper spelling and grammar is actually a ranking factor.

[EGOL]

Write using the same words and style as your audience.

If you have an audience who wears suits, coveralls, flip-flops or cowboy hats, they will immediately know if you are using the wrong language.    A lot of people send me "guest articles" and in two sentences I can tell if they are wearing the same type of clothes as my audience.

[Michael_Myles_Himself]

Thank you! Removing the general grammar and proper spelling made the paragraph sound incorrect and although I wasn't hitting the keyword spot on, I don't want to leave it that way. This will help me with some of these same types of problems on other pages. Thanks!

[Michael_Myles_Himself]

Thank you, this is helpful!