Different search phrase word order = different results

[shinkaide]

I did a couple of searches using compound search terms; same words, different word order. Say for example, "drama scene" and "scene drama". I noticed that even though the words stay the same, they get different results.

Is it because that priority/weight/importance is placed more on the first (or first few) word(s) than the following words and that affects the search results criteria? Or is it something else?

Just curious.

[livePR.ezer.com]

It can be SQL order by place, time, term, link, site, setting, description, title, contain, location, language, or PR... whatever.

I think G will keep it as a secret.

[bogs]

thats right even singular and plural words..

[bond007]

I think they are separately indexed.

[Tripta_Kneoteric]

Thats right, the results are different..

But I believe that if you have promoted yourself, by placing the phrase, for example, SEO India followed by SEO some way, you could get rankings for India SEO as well.

[MrCat]

A good tip is to opt for long tail keywords with some of your key terms included. Varying anchor texts also helps get you ranked for your other keywords

[corlock]

Originally Posted by shinkaide

I did a couple of searches using compound search terms; same words, different word order. Say for example, "drama scene" and "scene drama". I noticed that even though the words stay the same, they get different results.

Is it because that priority/weight/importance is placed more on the first (or first few) word(s) than the following words and that affects the search results criteria? Or is it something else?

Just curious.

what happen to your common sense?

of course they will show different results because phrases are phrases, SEs read these words accordingly from left to right and show possible results that is closest to the search phrase itself...now, if you happen to jumble the phrases, of course you will get different results...

there is no such thing as weightage with these one...of course, there are words that are exceptional and can be disregarded like "the, a, at, etc..."

[poksa]

If you tried to search Different phrase or a term Off course It will show Different results.

Even the using of the stuff words or not.

[aira]

Originally Posted by shinkaide

I did a couple of searches using compound search terms; same words, different word order. Say for example, "drama scene" and "scene drama". I noticed that even though the words stay the same, they get different results.

Simply because SEs are KW sensitive. Result varies from the KWs requested in the query and though you use the exact words but jumbled it out, the results won't be the same as the first one..also works with using singular and plural forms

[shinkaide]

Originally Posted by corlock

what happen to your common sense?

of course they will show different results because phrases are phrases, SEs read these words accordingly from left to right and show possible results that is closest to the search phrase itself...now, if you happen to jumble the phrases, of course you will get different results...

there is no such thing as weightage with these one...of course, there are words that are exceptional and can be disregarded like "the, a, at, etc..."

Come now, there is no need to be condescending, sir.

I was inquiring with regard to whether I understood the way Google treated my search terms, or if it was using some other method other than what I had thought of. I know that "phrases are phrases"; I just wanted to know if my idea of how Google processes those was in some way correct, or if there was something else involved.

I'm asking because I want to learn. I have no doubt that you must know a lot more about SEO than I do; I'd just like to ask you to play nice with newbies like me.

If I could use pure and simple common sense to do SEO, then I wouldn't be here at v7n or reading up on SEO articles and blogs.