Misspellings Are Good for SEO Keywords

When choosing your keywords you most likely use the correct spelling so your website looks more professional. But did you know misspelling keywords on purpose can also help with your SEO campaign?

If your one of these people that had no idea about this technique, then maybe it’s time to look into filling in the gaps in your keywords. You may feel like an idiot by including misspelled keywords, but there’s an audience out there who aren’t as clocked up when it comes to spelling, so why miss out by trying to keep your pride? Some words aren’t easy to spell as others, it’s not an individual mistake that will happen on a rare occasion, many people do it and there’s a way to find these keywords and target this audience.

By using Google AdWords Keyword Tool, you can try different misspellings and see which are searched just as much as the real spelling. For example, the word “jewellery” is a hard one to remember, and search volumes prove this. By searching “Jewellry”, you will find the search volume is just as big as it is for the correct spelling.  Here’s a screenshot of the estimated monthly traffic from February using common misspellings for the the word “jewellery.”

So try and include misspelled keywords in your Improve your website optimisation by using the following tools. campaign, because this may just help your site gain a higher traffic level.

Written by Email Adam Heaton

I am the technical manager at Weblinx as well as one of the website developers. Along with developing websites I am also involved in optimising sites for chosen keywords and phrases to help achieve high positions in search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo.
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    Kind regards

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    Hi sacramento seo,

    If you give http://www.weblinx.co.uk/439/how-to-choose-the-right-seo-service-provider/ a read you will get a better answer than I can provide, hope this helps.

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  • Nievo

    But google has this Did you mean option so if somebody typed a misspelled world s/he get prompted by it and so click the suggested (correct) spelling therefore changing the results. Maybe this has worked before but now it’s not really effective.

  • Nievo

    But google has this Did you mean option so if somebody typed a misspelled world s/he get prompted by it and so click the suggested (correct) spelling therefore changing the results. Maybe this has worked before but now it’s not really effective.

  • Adam Heaton

    Hi Nievo,

    I think I understand what you are trying to say, and yes Google do correct most spelling mistakes but not all spellings are corrected. Therefore, by attempting to fill this gap and being proactive more than reactive any results is better than no results.

    Kind regards

  • Adam Heaton

    Hi Nievo,

    I think I understand what you are trying to say, and yes Google do correct most spelling mistakes but not all spellings are corrected. Therefore, by attempting to fill this gap and being proactive more than reactive any results is better than no results.

    Kind regards