car vs. cars?

[nf71]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone could help me with the following question:

Do search engines find a web site with the search "car" if the site is optimized (meta tags and text) for "cars"?

[Serious]

Whilst some search engines treat singular and plural as the same, some do not. As Google treats them differently I would optimise both words seperately - as we all know Google Rules! (At the moment);)

[searchenginemarketing4u]

Google and most of the other popular search engines have different results for singular and plural versions of words.

Also, 'car' is a very, very competitive keyword phrase to optimise for - Google currently shows 57,800,000 web pages for this keyword!

You may be better off trying to optimise for more specific terms related to cars! :)

[nf71]

Thanks for the info - I used "car" as an example and wouldn´t try to optimize for that word!

[Advisor]

As the others have said, you have to use your keywords exactly as you'd like them to rank high with. That includes the order of the words, plurals, ing-endings, different spellings-- i.e., t-shirt and tshirt.

Good luck!

Jill