| 1. How many key concepts (important ideas) are found in the question? | |
| 2. How many key concepts will I search for? | |
| 3. What keywords are probably effective “as is?” | |
| 4. For which concepts are more effective keywords probably needed? | |
| 5. Are there hyponyms or professional language for any of the intermediate words? | |
| 6. Are there words that have multiple meanings? | |
| 7. Did I use any stop words or clutter words? | |
| 8. Did I spell the words correctly? | |
| 9. Did I put the most important words first? |
hyponym = a word with a more specific meaning, as opposed to hypernym (more general meaning)
stop word = a commonly used word (a, is, the) that is not indexed by a search engine
clutter word = an unnecessary concept
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