I submitted this blog to Google almost two weeks ago now and it has only just started to show some data. Among that data most of it is meaningless for now, but there was one thing that really stood out:
If you search for the term 'amazon asociates' in google it shows 1,930 results and this blog is number 5 on the list! The reason being that 'asociates' should actually have been spelt 'associates', but in an earlier post I made that spelling mistake several times.
I may be wrong, but I'm guessing that someone must have actually searched for 'amazon asociates' in Google for it to actually show in my website data, and if one person is already searching the term a day or two after I wrote that post then (bar any coincidences) it must be a fairly common mistake to make and could lead to more traffic coming this way.
It makes me think that there is huge potential to take advantage of spelling mistakes. I've not given it enough thought to work out how to harness all that potential, but I do think that my constant mentioning of the phrase 'amazon asociates' in this post might increase that rank 5 even further :P
Update: I was right, just a few minutes after this post I searched amazon asociates in google again and this blog is now ranked number 2 in the list!
Sunday, 6 April 2008
Speling Misstakes
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You are spot on. I have written about this in the past. Sometimes it pays to make a spelling mistake on keywords (also include them properly spelt as well).
Once I wrote about a celebrity and spelt their name wrong once in the post (and right on the other occasions). The wrong spelling brought in many more Google referrals than the rightly spelt name!
Mike.
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