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Mispelled Words Rank High

by AffiliatingAlan
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This may be a dumb question, but when doing keyword research I noticed 1.4k people are searching for a product word spelt completely incorrectly.

ie: barbeque spelt like barbaqu

When I type in the miss-spelt word into longtail pro it gives me a list of sites using the term correctly as "barbeque". Which is obv very competetive and all amazon and top chain stores.

I am just wondering if I used that mispelt word in my title and url, would I rank #1 in google for that term since no one else is using that term because it is not proper english word? Or is google smart and would rank me 0 and auto correct it for people once they search?
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  • Profile picture of the author ColdWritingLLC
    Originally Posted by AffiliatingAlan View Post

    This may be a dumb question, but when doing keyword research I noticed 1.4k people are searching for a product word spelt completely incorrectly.

    ie: barbeque spelt like barbaqu

    When I type in the miss-spelt word into longtail pro it gives me a list of sites using the term correctly as "barbeque". Which is obv very competetive and all amazon and top chain stores.

    I am just wondering if I used that mispelt word in my title and url, would I rank #1 in google for that term since no one else is using that term because it is not proper english word? Or is google smart and would rank me 0 and auto correct it for people once they search?
    Well you might rank #1 for that misspelling but the problem is that anyone who misspells it doesn't get sent to the results for the misspelling, but rather they get automatically redirected to the correct spelling and then have to specifically request for the results of the misspelled word.

    So yeah, you'd may rank a lot higher for a misspelling but you don't get the advantage of other people's mistake.
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  • Profile picture of the author garyt
    Yes, used to be good but now Google is smarter so many commonly mispelled words get corrected and directed to the right word!
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    • Profile picture of the author AffiliatingAlan
      Originally Posted by ColdWritingLLC View Post

      Well you might rank #1 for that misspelling but the problem is that anyone who misspells it doesn't get sent to the results for the misspelling, but rather they get automatically redirected to the correct spelling and then have to specifically request for the results of the misspelled word.

      So yeah, you'd may rank a lot higher for a misspelling but you don't get the advantage of other people's mistake.
      Thanks that was exactly what I was getting at

      Originally Posted by Teravel View Post

      Just because you rank on Google, doesn't mean you are going to earn anything. Google doesn't care about your website or your success.

      It would be a better use of your time and energy to put your business in front of actual people that are looking for that information, instead of begging the Search Engines in hopes they will find the right people for you.
      k but this is unrelated
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