Secondary related keywords
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Hello,
Do my secondary related keywords need to also come out as subjects in my sentences or can they be objects / predicate.
Thank you,
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"Mr X flew back to the United States last week"
In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with your sentence. I understand it. I think that Google will understand it.
Most of the writing that I do is very formal writing. Other people write in a relaxed manner, as though they are speaking. That type of speaking and writing is known as **colloquial. **
I believe that much of your writing is colloquial and Google will accept it without a problem.
The only thing that I might add to your writing is some periods and commas. You might do that when you write for a website as forum writing is not given as much time.
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I understand but you are probably a good writer and English is your native language which is why you don't have to think about it
but from my understanding most of out there and don't construct sentences correctly...and writing in the format of subject object predicate is much more complicated that it sounds.
Take this sentence : "Mr X flew back to the United States last week" most of us would think the predicate is to the United States last week but according to my understand of semantics there isn't any predicate which means that search engine don't understand my sentence.
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I believe that your related keywords are important to have on the page, but that there is very little benefit to contriving sentence structures to present them to Google in a certain way.
I believe that it is more important to have natural writing in which the writer's only focus is to communicate clearly and in an interesting way.
I spend zero time "writing sentences to please Google". I spend massive amounts of time trying to write in a way that my visitors will find interesting and easily understand.
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