Archive for February 8th, 2006

Misspelling to the benefit of webmasters

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Long time ago webmasters understood one important thing that enabled them to get enormous number of visitors to their web-sites. It’s not a secret that people make mistakes while searching for some services or widgets in the Net. The spelling mistakes can benefit those web-sites that are to be promoted very fast and beat the competitors.

If a webmaster has a web-site that sells, for instance, modern furniture and mattresses he/she could definitely use the keywords like “funiture” (162 searches a day according to Wordtracker), “matras” (34 searches a day), “matress” (346 searches a day) and so on. Just make the necessary changes in title, meta-tags and in the content body itself and you’ll reach the top! Outstanding results one can make out of people’s illiteracy!

Right now the situation is improving a bit as there are fewer and fewer illiterate searches in the cyberspace. It’s not a piece of cake anymore to reach the top10 even if you use, say, “bithstones” keyword instead of “birthstones”.

One can mention this “misspelling technique” as an old micro-strategy in marketing world, but the idea has transformed into a global direction in the Search Engine Optimization world due to its efficiency and marvelous results.

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