Are keywords CAPS sensitive? - Does it matter how or where you use CAPITAL letters?

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November 27, 2016, 4:22 pm

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Are keywords CAPS sensitive? - Does it matter how or where you use CAPITAL letters?

Lynne recently made a topic about CAPS and SEO. - Does using CAPS help with SEO? - That topic gave me inspiration to ask you this question.

Are keywords CAPS sensitive?

What I mean is basically this:
Would I be able to rank "SEOClerks" if I used capital letters differently or not at all?

Like this for instance: seoclerks or SeoClerks, or seoCLERKs. - Does any of this matters when it comes to rankings and keywords? - Would I get the same results no matter how I used capital letters?

Oh, and btw. Feel free to read the online etiquette discussion too!


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Everett

Yes, I have noticed that if I type in my domain name in caps (first word, first letter capped, and second word, first letter capped), then the search will appear on the first page, in the first position. Now if I were to CAP my domain name then it will appear a little down the page. I believe the search engines are CAPS sensitive, especially if you use the search engine commands. However, this is also not true, depending on the age of the domain.

What I have noticed as well is the older the domain, the more insensitive it is to caps. Weird huh? You could try to replicate what idealmike did, and use their website for an example. I bet when the website gets older, and google does whatever it does on their backend in the future it wouldn't matter if they used caps or not. So I tend to think about this period of time when caps are sensitive, and when they are not as a trial and error period for the algorithm to properly index and display the search term content.

This is not SEO advice, or tips just what I have noticed, especially with new domains.

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Lynne

Oh yes I remember there was a discussion about this a while back Mike. I never target any keywords using caps in any way, I just think it would get way too complicated and there are so many different variations.

I always use all lowercase because that is the way that I search online, so I stick to it.

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hitmeasap

I guess I do the same thing Lynne. Perhaps most people are doing that..? - Use lowercase whenever they try to find something online. I bet most people does that!

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