Stop Words

Stop words are words that are ignored because they occur very frequently and usually have no relevance to the overall content. Stop words can therefore be, for example: and, or, but, because, for, etc. We recommend, especially when determining the Permalinks on the omission of stop words. This way, concise URLs can be defined.

Search engines have long been able to handle stop words well and understand the context of a sentence. They should therefore not be removed from continuous text, as that only makes it harder to read.

Different with addresses: A URL like /wie-man-eine-website-fuer-das-unternehmen-erstellt/ becomes much more compact by omitting stop words and still remains understandable.

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