Stop Words (Keywords to Avoid)

Stop words are those small, frequently-used words that are so common they are meaningless in a search. Because they are typically ignored by search engines and databases and decrease the quality of search results, it's best to simply not use them.

Examples of stop words include:

a, an, about, at, by, for, from, how, I, in, if, of, on, or, that, the, this, to, was, what, when, where, who, with

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