Keywords

=Keywords=

after identifying your research topic, you need to translate it into a search strategy that the search engine will understand

the main elements of your search strategy are the keywords that describe the major concepts of your search topic

do not use **stop words** - stop words are words articles such as a, an and the; conjunctions and prepositions like and, or, but, in, of, for, on, into, from, than, at to; adjectives and adverbs - as, also, probably, however, very; and pronouns and verbs like - this, that, these, those, is, be, see and do

if you know very little about your topic, some initial research can help you identify useful keywords


 * synonyms** are words that have similar meanings - web pages can be created using different words to describe the same topic

by expanding your list of keywords, you help ensure that your **queries** are broad enough to find web pages not included under the exact keywords in your initial list

the order in which your place your keywords is important - placing your most important keywords at the beginning of your search query causes a search engine to display documents featuring the more important keywords at the top of your search results


 * Source:**

Barker, Donald I. and Carol D. Terry //Internet research// Boston, MA: Course Technology, 2009