Keyword whit accent (é, è, ê) ?

[Promoteam]

Hi all !

I have a quick question. On one of the site im working, my principal keyword im working whit have a accent such as é or è or ĉ. How does google seen it ?

When im trying to see a page in cached version to see what google is suppose to see, i often see my keyword whit @ or other weird sign in it. Does it affect my keyword ranking ? Can i lose autority ? Should i hide some "no accent keyword" somewhere on the page ? Cause some of them make no sense whitout it.

Thanks !

[Promoteam]

So i guess i could just fill the text on the page whit Keyword whit accent since it make sense and replacing url and picture ID and Alt= whit non-keyword accent. It would prolly restore the balance.

Ty for your help !

[seomasterbrasil]

Hello!

I'm from Brazil and also thought about that, so let's see:

If I search about café or cafe (it means coffee in portuguese), the Google Adwords broad match doesn't care much, it gets them as the same, with Local Search Volume of 3,500,000 for both.

But in the Google Adwords Exact Match, it goes different:

Local Search          Global Search

café                   27,100                     60,500

cafe                   18,100                   246,000

So, it seem that you can use in theory both keyword for Broadsearch, but you are going to lose some when it goes Exact.

So you have to see which one is the best one for you, that brings more traffic and at the same time a good conversion.

1)You're going to have a keyword ranking for each of the words.

2)I don't recommend you to hide a "no accent keyword" because Google can see it as a Black Hat and punish you.

3)And if some of the words don't make sense without the accent, you should use them with it, because you can't forget your users, because won't make sense to them either. Therefore, it's going to have a big bounce rate.

Hope it helps! =]