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keywords with diacritical marks
Posted by on April 16, 2021 at 9:41 pmI write recipes for an online magazine and SEO is critical. A lot of the recipes I write use French culinary terms, like soufflé.
I have to use the correct spelling, with the diacritical over the last e, but I know that’s not how people search. They just write souffle. Same with all the other French words and culinary terms. No one is going to use accent marks.
So . . . let’s say I’m using Yoast. Do I list my keyword with or without the accent mark?
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
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2 Replies
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>Do I list my keyword with or without the accent mark?
List it with accent so to convey explicit intent. Google algorithms are intelligent to interpret with or without accent and depending on the search intent shows result.
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I assume locals or users with high intent will use diacritical marks so you’ll want to optimize for them as well
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