Comments on: Focusing a domain on a misspelled high traffic keyword

By: Lele

Lele — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:57:32 +0000

I think that it looks bad to have a misspelled word on your site, but what about an alt tag for an image. Nobody reads those.

By: MMA Bart

MMA Bart — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:50:38 +0000

Amen. I had a martial art related domain with a misspelling and it started to move forward a bit, I realized that I wanted to evolve as an author/blogger. I wanted to start branding and building an audience – and I felt the misspelled domain detracted from my authenticity.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:29:38 +0000

I’m not sure people usually leave. I rank here for a high traffic misspelled keyword and i can say it’s converting pretty well for me .
Not sure what happens if the domain name is misspelled though.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:48:08 +0000

I was thinking about this same thing today. But every time that I have misspelled a domain as soon as I realize that I am at the wrong site I leave. I wonder how many people do stay and look around the site? I think there are a lot of other internet marketing strategies that we could spend our time working on.

By: Nevada SEO

Nevada SEO — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:42:58 +0000

I think it will make your site funny to others. Though you can earn some good traffic but somehow not for long since people will always search on the right spelling.

By: Futons

Futons — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:19:31 +0000

Well said. I agree that it would effect the site branding ability and surely would affect your site business as misspelt words would not get good results in search engines. Better to focus on long term goal rather than getting success for short term.

By: fruit basket

fruit basket — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:37:56 +0000

I favorited it. The last line is so true. I also wish life would be much easier…Thanks for sharing.

By: Cool Gifts

Cool Gifts — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:12:59 +0000

I agree. It’s extremely bad practice to optimize for misspelled words. It might work in the short-run, but in the long-run it would probably catch up with you. It’s usually best to take the high road in situations like this.

By: Dean Lee

Dean Lee — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:32:35 +0000

A very interesting post. I think one of the contentious issues is centered around branding. It depends whether the brand has a vested interest in winning over the customer. If the brand isn’t key then perhaps it would be feasible. However, I tend to think this could be a potential minefield in the long-term.