Genitiv and Dativ

[Zinger]

Hi, everyone. Can someone tell me what to do if you choose some nouns as keywords, which may appear on the webside with an -en an -s due to Dativ and Genitiv declination??? The different plural forms may also be a problem as they may end with a -en, -s, -er etc. Will the search engine still recognise these words despite the different ending??? Anyone who is familiar with German knows what I mean. What can I do about that???

Thanks.

Kyrill.

[Alan Perkins]

Originally posted by Zinger
Will the search engine still recognise these words despite the different ending??? It can, using a technique known as stemming (i.e. same stem, different endings).

However, even search engines that support stemming give more preference to pages that use the same stem as the keyword.