How do people search? Do the use spaces or not?

for example Disney Store or DisneyStore?

[walkman]

I know both versions are used, but what do you think most people do? Do they type DisneyStore or Disney Store (with a space)? This is important to me because I would need to adjust the internal links to reflect that.

I remember trying to use Wordtracker to find it out, but I don't think I got that far.
Does anyone have any evidence, real or anecdotal?

thanks in advance,

To the mods: I just used DisneyStore as an example since it's very common, that's all. It could've been EddieBauer /Eddie Bauer and so on. Im not related to Mickey or anything :)

[kevinpate]

I locate very few instances where someone found the site I deal with by typing kw1kw2. It's gonna be
words separated by spaces 99.sumthin% of the time.

For my own searching, unless I just slip a finger by accident, I likewise don't try to seek out kw1kw2 nor kw1kw2kw3

[walkman]

Hi kevin,
how about if they're searching for let's say Disney Store locations? Is it "Disney Store locations" or "DisneyStore locations"?

I think that most people space them out...and that's how I have them in my site, but thought to ask around. You never know.

thanks

[gopi]

I always put the phrase aimed by the page without spaces in one or two instances (especially 2 word phrase ) - you dont want to miss those odd typers :)

[Mr Bo Jangles]

the same way you do walkman - you wouldn't type in disneystore for a genuine search would you? Or prisonabuse for example? If you want to exclude some crap i.e. 'store' results, type in "disney store"

[walkman]

you know why I asked?

a guy runs the same type of site as I do has the keywords and URLs this way (oneword :)). He gets a lot more traffic than I do. I know, I know other factors but I wondered...

[brakthepoet]

There are a number of manufacturer names and product names that are made up of two or more words. If a product's actual name were something like "The ChimneySweep", be sure to add it to your pages with spaces & no spaces. It's amazing the number of variations I've found that have the words separated and jammed together. If you're already working with misspellings for traffic, just add word separations to the list of misspellings. gopi's technique is the same one that I use and it works well.

[troels nybo nielsen]

To get a multi-linguistic (multi linguistic? multilinguistic?) angle we have the opposite problem in Danish and presumably some other languages: I see loads of what we call "sammensatte ord" (compound words?) getting split into their individual parts. (Like "foot ball" instead of "football"). This is most likely due to a combination of snobbery for the American culture and growing linguistic incompetence even among academics.

I have one such split word that gives almost as many visitors as the correct spelling, but this is most likely to some degree due to the fact that my competitors have not optimised a page for it.

[jo1ene]

In my industry kw1kw2 kw3 is slightly more poular that kw1 kw2 kw3 but I find that if you separate them all by a space than you also get kw1 kw3 which is also very popular. I dunno...