SEO stop words are the most common words that most search engines avoid, saving space and time in processing large data during crawling or indexing. This helps search engines to save space in their databases.

Commonly used words that are excluded from searches to help index and parse web pages faster. Some examples of stop words are: “a”, “and”, “but”, “how”, “or”, and “what.” While the majority of all Internet search engines utilize stop words, they do not prevent a user from using them, but they are ignored. For example, if you were to search for “What is SEO?” on Study Warehouse, the search engine would only look for the term “SEO.” or search for “What is Python?” on Easy code in Python, the search engine would only look for the term “Python.”

Here is a list of SEO Stop Words:

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – A

able	again	along	amongst	anyways	aside
about	against	alongside	an	anywhere	ask
above	ago	already	and	apart	asking
abroad	ahead	also	another	appear	associated
according	ain’t	although	any	appreciate	at
accordingly	all	always	anybody	appropriate	available
across	allow	am	anyhow	are	away
actually	allows	amid	anyone	aren’t	awfully
after	almost	amidst	anything	around
afterwards	alone	among	anyway	as

List of SEO Stop-Words begins with Alphabet – B

back	before	better
backward	beforehand	between
backwards	begin	beyond
be	behind	both
became	being	brief
because	believe	but
become	below	by
becomes	beside
becoming	besides
been	best

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – C

came	changes	containing
can	clearly	contains
cannot	c’mon	corresponding
cant	come	could
can’t	comes	couldn’t
caption	concerning	course
cause	consequently	currently
causes	consider
certain	considering
certainly	contain

List of SEO Stop-Words begins with Alphabet – D

dare	does
daren’t	doesn’t
definitely	doing
described	done
despite	don’t
did	down
didn’t	downwards
different	during
directly
do

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – E

each	etc	exactly
eight	even	example
eighty	ever	except
either	evermore
else	every
elsewhere	everybody
end	everyone
ending	everything
enough	everywhere
entirely	ex
especially

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – F

fairly	follows	further
far	for	furthermore
farther	forever
few	former
fewer	formerly
fifth	forth
first	forward
five	found
followed	four
following	from

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – G

get	gotten
gets	greetings
getting
given
gives
go
goes
going
gone
got

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – H

had	he	herein	hopefully
hadn’t	he’d	here’s	how
half	he’ll	hereupon	however
happens	hello	hers	hundred
hardly	help	herself
has	hence	he’s
hasn’t	her	hi
have	here	him
haven’t	hereafter	himself
having	hereby	his
		hither

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – I

i’d	indicate	it
if	indicated	it’d
ignored	indicates	it’ll
i’ll	inner	its
i’m	inside	it’s
immediate	instead	itself
in	into	i’ve
inc	inward
inc.	is
indeed	isn’t

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – J

just

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – K

keep

keeps

kept

know

known

knows

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – L

last	like
lately	liked
later	likely
latter	likewise
latterly	little
least	look
less	looking
lest	looks
let	low
let’s	lower

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – M

made	meantime	mostly
mainly	meanwhile	mr
make	merely	mrs
makes	might	much
many	mine	must
may	minus	mustn’t
maybe	miss	my
mayn’t	more	myself
me	moreover
mean	most

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – N

name	neverf	none
namely	neverless	nonetheless
near	nevertheless	nor
nearly	new	normally
necessary	next	not
need	nine	nothing
needn’t	ninety	notwithstanding
needs	no	novel
neither	nobody	now
never	non	nowhere

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – O

obviously	one	ought
of	ones	oughtn’t
off	one’s	our
often	only	ours
oh	onto	ourselves
ok	opposite	out
okay	or	outside
old	other	over
on	others	overall
once	otherwise	own

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – P

particular	probably
particularly	provided
past	provides
per
perhaps
placed
please
plus
possible
presumably

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – Q

que

quite

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – R

rather	right
really	round
reasonably
recent
recently
regarding
regardless
regards
relatively
respectively

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – S

said	seem	seriously	shouldn’t	sometime	sub
same	seemed	seven	since	sometimes	such
saw	seeming	several	six	somewhat	sure
say	seems	shall	so	somewhere
saying	seen	shan’t	some	soon
says	self	she	somebody	sorry
second	selves	she’d	someday	specified
secondly	sensible	she’ll	somehow	specify
see	sent	she’s	someone	specifying
seeing	serious	should	something	still

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – T

take	that’ll	thence	there’s	things	through	towards
taken	thats	there	thereupon	think	throughout	tried
taking	that’s	thereafter	there’ve	third	thru	tries
tell	that’ve	thereby	these	thirty	thus	truly
tends	the	there’d	they	this	till	try
than	their	therefore	they’d	thorough	to	trying
thank	theirs	therein	they’ll	thoroughly	together	twice
thanks	them	there’ll	they’re	those	too	two
thanx	themselves	there’re	they’ve	though	took
that	then	theres	thing	three	toward

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – U

under	upon
underneath	upwards
undoing	us
unfortunately	use
unless	used
unlike	useful
unlikely	uses
until	using
unto	usually
up

List of SEO Stop Words begins with Alphabet – V

value

various

versus

very

via

vs.

List of SEO Stop-Words begins with Alphabet – W

want	went	when	wherever	whole	with
wants	were	whence	whether	who’ll	within
was	we’re	whenever	which	whom	without
wasn’t	weren’t	where	whichever	whomever	wonder
way	we’ve	whereafter	while	who’s	won’t
we	what	whereas	whilst	whose	would
we’d	whatever	whereby	whither	why	wouldn’t
welcome	what’ll	wherein	who	will
well	what’s	where’s	who’d	willing
we’ll	what’ve	whereupon	whoever	wish