SEO For The Uneducated
I had written a post analysing this.
I’ve deleted it.
It only dampens the impact.
Google, please institute a “did you mean” correction for this search. You have the chance to educate so many people.
Hats off to all those companies producing products for the mass “Wayne & Waynetta” (see “the great unwashed”) market. No wonder you’re making so much money.
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Hi Mark,
I don’t understand what exactly the problem is with that?
It’s simply that fewer people are searching with the ” ‘ ” in the “your”.
And of course I DONT want to have that “corrected” by Google since this is an extra keyword phrase I can bid on with not so much competition – of course fewer searches as well though as not many people are searching with ” ‘ “.
But I don’t exactly see what you are trying to tell us here – This is the Keyword Tool for Adwords Advertisers and I, as an Adwords advertiser, am HAPPY that such phrases are NOT being “melt” together but instead all misspellings and variations are being shown by Google with there search-volume and amount of advertisers. Because in the end it is an extra keyword phrase varation that I can bid on cheaper than the generic one with “your”.
Comment by Torben
October 6th, 2008 @ 2:38 am
My point is that the vast majority of people don’t know the difference between you’re, your, they’re, their and there…
From an SEO point of view, it’s best to keep this in mind.
For instance, I run a site where I’m number 1 for the single key phrase of the thing I’m selling. I’m also #1 for a common mispelling, which gives me 50% more traffic.
Plus, I found it amusing.
Comment by Mark
October 6th, 2008 @ 9:08 am
Your is an interesting word for SEO. I find that most people, myself included miss-type it as YOU. I guess it is the brain lag that takes place during rapid typing that causes us to omit the extra characters that are required to form the you’re etc words?
Comment by Andy
October 12th, 2008 @ 1:31 pm
Google AI FTW!
Comment by SEOserpent
October 14th, 2008 @ 1:11 am
After word correction, Google starts to change our minds…
“This like this …”
Comment by HMERT
October 15th, 2008 @ 11:51 am
Guess Google can’t handle contractions. Just show to go ya – we’re still superior to computers.
Comment by Data Entry
October 22nd, 2008 @ 2:54 am
Google is in a great position to make a positive contribution towards correct English usage – but it’s unlikely…
Comment by dolls
October 22nd, 2008 @ 3:00 pm
@Data Entry..
I think you’ve just proved yourself wrong with that comment.
Comment by Mark
October 23rd, 2008 @ 11:47 am
of course you have to consider than any person actually searching on that topic would be far more likely to misspell the phrase. Because if I’m hitting google up with that phrase, don’t I already know the answer?
Comment by Matt Larson
November 30th, 2008 @ 8:57 am
I think for the begginning effort the procedure is very much clear as par web promotion
Comment by Mike
December 29th, 2008 @ 10:09 pm
old news i was talking about the miss spelling of words increasing traffic more than 4 years ago, being dyslexic has some advantages
Comment by thrifty
January 25th, 2009 @ 11:10 pm
@ thrifty
I think you’ve missed the point a little. (:
Comment by Mark
January 26th, 2009 @ 12:12 am
This is great material. Keep it up it is helping us all.
Comment by Money
May 29th, 2010 @ 8:25 pm