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Best way to target mispellings of a word?

         

rfung

3:58 am on Jan 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I am in a niche with products that have a lot of mispellings. Looking at my logs, one product can have as many as 20 different ways people will look for it.

I'm thinking the best way to deal with this would be at the bottom of the product page have an entry 'other spellings:' and list them all together, but this may be seen by the SE/G as keyword spamming on the page?

Peppering the page with mispellings seem like a dumb way to do it (tho probably more SE friendly) but I risk alienating users who think the page is full of mispellings itself!...

Suggestions?

sore66

6:06 am on Jan 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I just wrote on my site...

These are commom mispellings:

then I listed them...

at least for awhile it worked and I was #1 on yahoo for a 4 word phrase, for af ew weeks...

le_gber

9:20 am on Jan 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



be franck with your visitors and make it an easy / funny read:

yourdomain.com/keywords-misspelled.html

<h1>Our Keywords (properly spelled)are often mispelled<h1>

It's true we provide the <a href="link to proper product page">best keyword</a> (correctly spelled) around but a lot of people are mispelling our products name when searching for them in the search engines. That's why we thought of creating this page, for all of you how are to busy or too excited to check your spelling and want to find our products nonetheless. If you reading this page you probably wanted to find information on <a href="link to proper product page">keywords</a> (properly spelled).

<h2>Letter swapping: from Kyewords to keyworsd<h2>
Letter swapping is the most common mistake our visitors make. They are in a hurry to find the information or product they crave. Sometimes they are so excited to buy our <a href="link to proper product page">keywords</a>(properly spelled) that their fingers tremble, their vision becomes blurred and they can type any of the following (these are true misspelling of our products):
<ul>
<li>keyworsd<li>
<li>keywrods<li>
<li>...</li>
</ul>

<h2>Missing letters: the road to further mispelling: Keywords (properly spelled) becomes Kywords or Keywods<h2>
...

well rfung you get the drift ;), I hope this helped

leo

ps. rfung - check my own misspelling I haven't had time I am too excited ;-)