Need your help! Misspelled EMD--worth it?

mec64 · 10-10-2011, 02:41 PM

Quick question for all--need all the opinions and info I can get.

I recently found a misspelling of a very broad term, no trademarks or anything to mess with on this one, and the search volume is around 1300 local/month with less than 20k competition. The first page of google is laughable and I know I can rank #1. The adsense ads seem to be coming in nicely from the broader term as well, which is nice @ 2.81/click according to LTP. The EMD is also available.

Is it even viable to grab misspellings anymore? Has anyone used this approach and seen decent results, even though Google has included the "did you mean..." feature. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Also, if it actually does well I was thinking about building it out into a medium sized semi-authority site, will this work with the misspelling, or do you think that my credibility would be shot with the typo?

Thanks,

Mason

mosthost · 10-10-2011, 02:47 PM

I think you might regretting doing a ton of work that sort of makes you look stupid in the long run. That said, you probably can capitalize on the traffic easily because it matches a search term exactly.

DaveDempsey · 10-10-2011, 03:02 PM

Since Google automatically changes search terms for users that misspell words I don't think it is worth it to grab misspelled domains. You will only appear in the rankings for when they manually click the link on the results page link to take them to the search results for the misspelled word - which I think rarely happens.

Hope this helps
Dave

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DaveDempsey Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Widnes, UK Posts: 63 Thanks: 43 Thanked 21 Times in 13 Posts Social Networking	Re: Need your help! Misspelled EMD--worth it? Since Google automatically changes search terms for users that misspell words I don't think it is worth it to grab misspelled domains. You will only appear in the rankings for when they manually click the link on the results page link to take them to the search results for the misspelled word - which I think rarely happens. Hope this helps Dave
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mec64 Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 60 Thanks: 30 Thanked 11 Times in 11 Posts	Need your help! Misspelled EMD--worth it? Quick question for all--need all the opinions and info I can get. I recently found a misspelling of a very broad term, no trademarks or anything to mess with on this one, and the search volume is around 1300 local/month with less than 20k competition. The first page of google is laughable and I know I can rank #1. The adsense ads seem to be coming in nicely from the broader term as well, which is nice @ 2.81/click according to LTP. The EMD is also available. Is it even viable to grab misspellings anymore? Has anyone used this approach and seen decent results, even though Google has included the "did you mean..." feature. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Also, if it actually does well I was thinking about building it out into a medium sized semi-authority site, will this work with the misspelling, or do you think that my credibility would be shot with the typo? Thanks, Mason