Stop Words

Stop Words are the most common words which are eventually left out by the search engine's crawlers during keyword searching & indexing.

Stop Words

Stop words are extremely common words which are filtered during the search process performed by the search engine in order to save the disk space and speed up showing the search result. If not ignored, these words can impede your SEO efforts; especially, if used frequently in your site's title, heading, first line of the first paragraph, images etc.

These stop words enormously waste the valuable space which are premium for the prominent SEO words due to truncation in search results. Areas to explicitly avoid the use of stop words are:

• Page title tags

• Important headings

• Webpage URLs

• Meta descriptions

• Image Alt text

Below is the comprehensive list of the Stop Words ignored by search engines:

a

• able

• about

• above

• abroad

• according

• accordingly

• across

• actually

• adj

• after

• afterwards

• again

• against

• ago

• ahead

• ain’t

• all

• allow

• allows

• almost

• alone

• along

• alongside

• already

• also

• although

• always

• am

• amid

• amidst

• among

• amongst

• an

• and

• another

• any

• anybody

• anyhow

• anyone

• anything

• anyway

• anyways

• anywhere

• apart

• appear

• appreciate

• appropriate

• are

• aren’t

• around

• as

• a’s

• aside

• ask

• asking

• associated

• at

• available

• away

• awfully

b

• back

• backward

• backwards

• be

• became

• because

• become

• becomes

• becoming

• been

• before

• beforehand

• begin

• behind

• being

• believe

• below

• beside

• besides

• best

• better

• between

• beyond

• both

• brief

• but

• by

c

• came

• can

• cannot

• cant

• can’t

• caption

• cause

• causes

• certain

• certainly

• changes

• clearly

• c’mon

• co

• co.

• com

• come

• comes

• concerning

• consequently

• consider

• considering

• contain

• containing

• contains

• corresponding

• could

• couldn’t

• course

• c’s

• currently

d

• dare

• daren’t

• definitely

• described

• despite

• did

• didn’t

• different

• directly

• do

• does

• doesn’t

• doing

• done

• don’t

• down

• downwards

• during

e

• each

• edu

• eg

• eight

• eighty

• either

• else

• elsewhere

• end

• ending

• enough

• entirely

• especially

• et

• etc

• even

• ever

• evermore

• every

• everybody

• everyone

• everything

• everywhere

• ex

• exactly

• example

• except

f

• fairly

• far

• farther

• few

• fewer

• fifth

• first

• five

• followed

• following

• follows

• for

• forever

• former

• formerly

• forth

• forward

• found

• four

• from

• further

• furthermore

g

• get

• gets

• getting

• given

• gives

• go

• goes

• going

• gone

• got

• gotten

• greetings

h

• had

• hadn’t

• half

• happens

• hardly

• has

• hasn’t

• have

• haven’t

• having

• he

• he’d

• he’ll

• hello

• help

• hence

• her

• here

• hereafter

• hereby

• herein

• here’s

• hereupon

• hers

• herself

• he’s

• hi

• him

• himself

• his

• hither

• hopefully

• how

• howbeit

• however

• hundred

i

• i’d

• ie

• if

• ignored

• i’ll

• i’m

• immediate

• in

• inasmuch

• inc

• inc.

• indeed

• indicate

• indicated

• indicates

• inner

• inside

• insofar

• instead

• into

• inward

• is

• isn’t

• it

• it’d

• it’ll

• its

• it’s

• itself

• i’ve

j

• just

k

• keep

• keeps

• kept

• know

• known

• knows

l

• last

• lately

• later

• latter

• latterly

• least

• less

• lest

• let

• let’s

• like

• liked

• likely

• likewise

• little

• look

• looking

• looks

• low

• lower

• ltd

m

• made

• mainly

• make

• makes

• many

• may

• maybe

• mayn’t

• me

• mean

• meantime

• meanwhile

• merely

• might

• mightn’t

• mine

• minus

• miss

• more

• moreover

• most

• mostly

• mr

• mrs

• much

• must

• mustn’t

• my

• myself

n

• name

• namely

• nd

• near

• nearly

• necessary

• need

• needn’t

• needs

• neither

• never

• neverf

• neverless

• nevertheless

• new

• next

• nine

• ninety

• no

• nobody

• non

• none

• nonetheless

• noone

• no-one

• nor

• normally

• not

• nothing

• notwithstanding

• novel

• now

• nowhere

o

• obviously

• of

• off

• often

• oh

• ok

• okay

• old

• on

• once

• one

• ones

• one’s

• only

• onto

• opposite

• or

• other

• others

• otherwise

• ought

• oughtn’t

• our

• ours

• ourselves

• out

• outside

• over

• overall

• own

p

• particular

• particularly

• past

• per

• perhaps

• placed

• please

• plus

• possible

• presumably

• probably

• provided

• provides

q

• que

• quite

• qv

r

• rather

• rd

• re

• really

• reasonably

• recent

• recently

• regarding

• regardless

• regards

• relatively

• respectively

• right

• round

s

• said

• same

• saw

• say

• saying

• says

• second

• secondly

• see

• seeing

• seem

• seemed

• seeming

• seems

• seen

• self

• selves

• sensible

• sent

• serious

• seriously

• seven

• several

• shall

• shan’t

• she

• she’d

• she’ll

• she’s

• should

• shouldn’t

• since

• six

• so

• some

• somebody

• someday

• somehow

• someone

• something

• sometime

• sometimes

• somewhat

• somewhere

• soon

• sorry

• specified

• specify

• specifying

• still

• sub

• such

• sup

• sure

t

• take

• taken

• taking

• tell

• tends

• th

• than

• thank

• thanks

• thanx

• that

• that’ll

• thats

• that’s

• that’ve

• the

• their

• theirs

• them

• themselves

• then

• thence

• there

• thereafter

• thereby

• there’d

• therefore

• therein

• there’ll

• there’re

• theres

• there’s

• thereupon

• there’ve

• these

• they

• they’d

• they’ll

• they’re

• they’ve

• thing

• things

• think

• third

• thirty

• this

• thorough

• thoroughly

• those

• though

• three

• through

• throughout

• thru

• thus

• till

• to

• together

• too

• took

• toward

• towards

• tried

• tries

• truly

• try

• trying

• t’s

• twice

• two

u

• un

• under

• underneath

• undoing

• unfortunately

• unless

• unlike

• unlikely

• until

• unto

• up

• upon

• upwards

• us

• use

• used

• useful

• uses

• using

• usually

v

• value

• various

• versus

• very

• via

• viz

• vs

w

• want

• wants

• was

• wasn’t

• way

• we

• we’d

• welcome

• well

• we’ll

• went

• were

• we’re

• weren’t

• we’ve

• what

• whatever

• what’ll

• what’s

• what’ve

• when

• whence

• whenever

• where

• whereafter

• whereas

• whereby

• wherein

• where’s

• whereupon

• wherever

• whether

• which

• whichever

• while

• whilst

• whither

• who

• who’d

• whoever

• whole

• who’ll

• whom

• whomever

• who’s

• whose

• why

• will

• willing

• wish

• with

• within

• without

• wonder

• won’t

• would

• wouldn’t

y

• yes

• yet

• you

• you’d

• you’ll

• your

• you’re

• yours

• yourself

• yourselves

• you’ve

z

• zero