Title: Punctuation
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Punctuation

 *  [Bunzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bunzer/)
 * (@bunzer)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/punctuation-2/)
 * Part SEO and part Yoast SEO question this, and I don’t know where the join is…
 * If I create a post with a title containing punctuation (say a colon or comma),
   but which matches my keyphrase, Yoast SEO fails to recognise the similarity. 
   To score a green dot, I have to remove the punctuation from the title, body and
   description.
 * Let me give an example:
    Say I had a post called “Paris, France”, the stub would
   be paris-france and the keyphrase “paris france”, but Yoast SEO would complain
   that it is not in the body or title because the comma would cause a mismatch.
 * Does this matter? Is the SEO really affected? Or is it just Yoast SEO which is
   affected?
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 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/punctuation-2/)
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