I'm normally used to seeing completely different results - the usual Irish sites (and my own, hopefully) who normally appear but this seemed like an international list of complete unrecognisables. I immediately went to check that I wasn't searching Google NCR (No Country Recognition) or USA or CO.ZA but I was at the right place. I'd searched for "Search Enigne Optimisation" by mistake, instead of "Search Engine Optimisation".
This has to be one of the most overlooked yet easiest to implement opportunities for Webmasters and its one of the oldest tricks. Don't expect your target search market will never make mistakes - in fact, plan for them. The number of sites in the index for "enigne" instead of "engine" is only 12,600 - but in the correctly spelled version, there are 38 million results - much easier to rank for!
People make this mistake with everyday words all the time - apartments (aparments), Christmas, accommodation (acommodaiton etc), travel destinations (Porto for example) - so make sure you have both bases covered, don't rely on Google to auto-correct.
That's a very good point David, thank you.
ReplyDeleteOff to write all my key words very quickly in notepad and see the tpyos!!!
How does google treat things like the autocorrect of z in "optimisation"
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ReplyDeleteIts gone back to treating them differently - if you search for "search engine optimization" for example, there are more results than for "search engine optimisation". It used to return the same results. So two different words.
ReplyDeleteAt least its stopped offering the word with a "z"