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MJMoore -> Search terms - spelling variations (6/1/2006 7:49:45)

Hi.. first post here, so hello.

A friend of mine has a site with the domain name cinthiahamer.com. If you search for cinthia hamer in google, it finds her site, but she feels that some people might search for cynthia hamer instead.

Is there a way we achieve her site showing up for either variation? Would it help putting both in the meta tags?

(She's a writer, and we're thinking ahead, for if she becomes published.)

Many thanks!




Nicole -> RE: Search terms - spelling variations (6/1/2006 8:27:33)

Hi Michelle,

Welcome to Outfront! I hope others come in on this thread because it's an interesting topic.

I'm no SEO expert by any stretch of the imagination, but as far as I'm aware, key phrases are more effective than individual keywords, and for either to be effective at all they need to appear in the page content and/or headings to mean anything.

In other words, unless she's willing to write "Cynthia" into her content or headings, any mention of that name in her meta tags is worthless.

Another option could be for her to buy the domain name cynthiahamer.com and re-direct it to her real address.

Hope that helps anyway!

Nicole



MJMoore -> RE: Search terms - spelling variations (6/1/2006 8:34:36)

Thank you Nicole!

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ORIGINAL: Nicole

Another option could be for her to buy the domain name cynthiahamer.com and re-direct it to her real address.


She is willing to do this, but I was told elsewhere that it wouldn't be worth it?




Reflect -> RE: Search terms - spelling variations (6/1/2006 9:05:28)

Easier way, link campaign.

Use a GREAT two sentence description utilizing the miss spelling in it. This will get you were you want to be. I would do this in low level directories. Do a search on genre+add site, +submit site, add your site (You get where I am going here).

Take care,

Brian



MJMoore -> RE: Search terms - spelling variations (6/2/2006 16:14:20)

Thanks Brian, but I'm not sure either of us have the time for a link campaign.
Can anyone give me any feedback on the idea of buying the alternative domain?
Thanks :)



dpf -> RE: Search terms - spelling variations (6/3/2006 9:06:00)

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but I was told elsewhere that it wouldn't be worth it?
with domains available under $10 its definitely worth it!!!! you have already identified what will be common spelling error- aside from search engines domain names are often communicated (or remmbered) verbally



womble -> RE: Search terms - spelling variations (6/3/2006 9:54:11)

I'd agree with Dan - there's plenty of registrars offering domains for under £10 (she's a Brit Dan - start thinking transatlantically [;)]) so I'd do that and re-direct to the real address.

(will stop by your place one of these days Michelle [;)])



MJMoore -> RE: Search terms - spelling variations (6/3/2006 10:01:20)

I'm also discussing with someone about making an extra page with 'cynthia hamer' in the text.

Womble, I'm in the UK, but my friend is in the US! [8D]



womble -> RE: Search terms - spelling variations (6/3/2006 10:06:28)

Well then you can get one for under $10, and one for under £10 [8D][;)]



yb2 -> RE: Search terms - spelling variations (6/3/2006 10:30:11)

Has she thought about changing her name?[:)]



MJMoore -> RE: Search terms - spelling variations (6/3/2006 10:52:12)

Well.. her name is cynthia, but for some reason, she chose cinthia for her writing name. However, whichever she uses, there will always be a search for the other! [;)]



yb2 -> RE: Search terms - spelling variations (6/3/2006 11:00:31)

a lot of (big) sites use Levenshtein's Distance (or similar algos) to check for variations in spelling. For example, putting cinthia into Google you get asked if you meant Cynthia, but you don't get prompted if you search for cynthia. So perhaps it's best to stick to cynthia?

then again you'd be in a more crowded market - there's more cynthias.



MJMoore -> RE: Search terms - spelling variations (6/3/2006 11:09:04)

Cinthia is her writers name, no choice on that one. :)



Ken of Kentropolis -> RE: Search terms - spelling variations (6/16/2006 20:15:42)

I do this at http://www.nowinskipirogies.com/our_pirogies.htm ... we used to have 4 domaisn spelled diferent ways, but they didn't want the expense so we got rid of 3.



jaybee -> RE: Search terms - spelling variations (6/17/2006 7:51:42)

Now that's a good idea Ken. I'm currently wrestiling with something similar. The site owner is Malcolm and his domain is Malcolm but he likes to be called Mal. I'm playing around with abbreviation tags that pop-up tooltips when you mouseover his name and the tooltips have snippets about Malcolm.

Oh, suppose I'd better warn you though, abbr tags don't work in IE so you need to put a link that goes nowhere in the abbr.

And before somebody starts yelling about accessibility, Jaws only reads the abbr and ignores the embedded href.



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