> Hi Kevin and welcome!
> My apologies that no one responded to your
> previous post.
> This is a most interesting post in that I can
> not recall anyone asking such stock market
> \ticker related questions. Thanks for posting!
> One thing to remember is that you rank for the content
> on your site - That is the most important part.
> If you want to be found for certain search terms then
> they should be on your site. Also, if your site has
> compelling and useful content and users link to you
> using said terms with quality links, that can only help.
> That said, I'll try to address your questions one by one.
> > 1) why do some keywords have the stock exchanges added to them? or are
> > people really typing in the exchanges, literally typing in
> > nasdaq:kerx?
> You might check with the analytics help group:http://groups.google.com/group/analytics-help
> But, in my opinion, I lean to your latter conclusion.
> People are actually searching using these terms.
> > 2) If these are our top keywords, why can't I find us listed for them?
> Hard to say, It could be geotargeting where you get different
> search results than others or this was prevalent at one time
> but not when you checked.
> Also make sure when you search you are not logged in to
> Google or your own preferences and search history may
> cause what you see to be different than what others see.
> > 3) Does Google add the stock exchanges prefix if it determines/thinks
> > the user is searching for a ticker symbol?
> Google does not add anything to any search query but again
> check with the analytics group just to be sure your interpretation
> of the results matches what is actually being reported.
> > 4) I asked before, but will try again. What is the best to show google
> > that a ticker symbol is a ticker symbol. After the name, Keryx
> > Biophamaceuticals is it best to use: .....
> I really don't think Google cares. A word is a word is a word.
> There is no way to tell Google that a certain word or character
> string is a stock ticker symbol. And even if you could, what
> would it matter?
> Users (searchers) have no way of specifying they are looking for
> only a ticker name (At least that I know of).
> Forhttp://finance.google.comthere may be a difference but for
> general web search, There is nothing defined.
> However when I use any of the terms you mention you are
> on the first page inhttp://finance.google.com.
> Is there a reason your site should show up instead?
> K E R E X or Nasdaq:K E R E X
> (I space separated the term intentionally here)
> The key here is for your site to show under those
> search terms it would have to be focused on those terms.
> I'd imagine yours more focused on the business than the stock
> ticker name itself, at least for the home page.
> If you provide the URL, Maybe someone can come
> up with something specific.
> Hope that helps,
> Abracadabra
> On Dec 1, 2:30 pm, Kevin Traster wrote:
> > Some of our top keywords (according to analytics) include what appear
> > to have exchanges like (nyse: nasdaq: tse:) in front of ticker
> > symbols.
> > Example:
> > nasdaq:kerx is # 5 for our top keywords for google search.
> > a) When I search for and where does our domain mffais.com rank:
> > kerx - not in top 1000
> > nasdaq: kerx - rank 750
> > nasdaq:kerx - not in top 1000
> > b) kerx is (without the nasdaq:) # 46 for our top keywords for google
> > search.
> > My questions are:
> > 1) why do some keywords have the stock exchanges added to them? or are
> > people really typing in the exchanges, literally typing in
> > nasdaq:kerx?
> > 2) If these are our top keywords, why can't I find us listed for them?
> > 3) Does Google add the stock exchanges prefix if it determines/thinks
> > the user is searching for a ticker symbol?
> > 4) I asked before, but will try again. What is the best to show google
> > that a ticker symbol is a ticker symbol. After the name, Keryx
> > Biophamaceuticals is it best to use:
> > (KERX)
> > (Nasdaq: KERX)
> > (KERX.O)
> > (Ticker: KERX)
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