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Avoid Stop Words

By Wendy Boswell, About.com

"Stop Words" are conjunctions, prepositions and articles and other words such as AND, TO and A that appear often in documents yet alone may contain little meaning. When typed into most search engines, they are disregarded.

You should try to avoid stop words in your TITLE tag. Use your keywords and be as descriptive as possible.

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