Still can't figure out misspelling rankings

[kbf]

I've seen this for a long while...I think I even asked about it on here before. It's when you see yourself ranking for a misspelling and you definitely don't have that onpage and you definitely don't have any links with the misspelled text. And, some sort of new domains will rank great for a number of slightly misspelled queries. Weird.

My memory is sometimes sketchy, but I don't think I've heard anything yet that makes sense.

I've read a theory elsewhere about sites lacking authority ranking well for misspellings. That doesn't make any sense to me. Of course, nothing about these things has to make sense.

I think it would be beneficial to understand this.

[earlpearl]

KBF:

That is a good question. I certainly have no idea about it. I get significant traffic for misspellings.

In the past I had a misspelling in content that attracted lots of traffic. Of course that was rational.

I'd love to hear about this if I anybody has experience or readings on the topic.

Here is to all the terrible spellers in the world.....

[A.N.Onym]

For a new site (less than 6 months), I've had traffic for "HR web portal", when the page was optimized for "human resources web portal" and only mentioned HR once.

When I added "HR" to the title and h1, traffic stopped.

When I changed it back to "human resources" only, it resumed.

The reason G sends misspelled traffic to low quality domains is because it expects them to have misspellings. That being said, I'd also expect popular domains to get misspelled traffic due to sheer link strength and possible typos in text/links.

[kbf]

The reason G sends misspelled traffic to low quality domains is because it expects them to have misspellings.

[citation needed]


just kidding: we're not on Reddit now

Seriously, though, Yura...I'm not saying that you're wrong...but, what do you base that on?

[vetzkov]

This feature is still an undergoing project and we can expect clearer results in the middle of 09

[kbf]

This feature is still an undergoing project and we can expect clearer results in the middle of 09

Very true vetzkov. I should have this figured out by no later than June 17th.

[A.N.Onym]

Well, those are just my guesses:
1. Low quality domains typically have more typos, than authoritative domains through the virtue of editors of corresponding calibre
2. When Google encounters a typo, it probably identifies the right variant and does a search for that too. Then it presents the results for the correctly spelled query, showing the authoritative websites. What's left to show for the typo? Other websites

Then again, as I have said, I don't suggest that big websites don't rank for typos. Quite the contrary: if it's well optimized, it may be visible for anything on earth, like W-a.

I think I have more faith in my first assumption, than the second. Perhaps, Bill at seobythesea.com has come across a patent or two on the topic.

Here are his posts that I've found of relevance:
http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=476
http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=826
http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=1078

[kbf]

I know...this is a guessing game.

1. Low quality domains typically have more typos, than authoritative domains through the virtue of editors of corresponding calibre

This is probably true. However, I've seen this happen with new domains that didn't have the typos. I've seen it happen with many of my new domains at one point or another. And, that's what makes it interesting to me: to see a new domain (without an on page typo or typo anchor text) outranking an older site for a typo. It's weird.

Is there anything to learn from it?

[A.N.Onym]

Nothing you can exploit for a while, I'm sure.

But we think in terms of simply slightly boosting our traffic, I'd guess that that's what I was talking about: for one reason or another G prefers to show new sites for typos, perhaps to show more variants for an unfamiliar (possibly new) query. It might be that they are testing the quality of new sites this way, too.

[YellowSEO]

This is only my theory on this subject (I could be wrong)

Seems to be a bunch of different things going on with typos

typo - find most relevant result and fill serp at all costs if most likely at typo, if not find similar result, if result with "typo" show them at #3

"Our algorithms use a wide range of information to predict the queries users are most likely to want to see. For example, Google Suggest uses data about the overall popularity of various searches to help rank the refinements it offers." From Google Suggest

Filling empty results is a major concern at Google. The top 2 tend to be the best results for corrected spelling if there. Could be pulling from the supplemental results index when there is not enough results to fill the serp.

Examples

guidg typo for quide the top2 are correct for search patterns and actions asumming that for most users this will be a typo. Followed by exact matches and relevant results to "guidg"

guid google can now even handle these type of results globally unique identifier
because of ~similar results

guidf this site will rankfor typo with nos uggested terms because www.flogao(dot)com(dot)br/guidf -site:www.flogao(dot)com(dot)br you will see the word guide highlighted to for over10,000 pages of links

guidp but then when you search this it give urbandictionary the result

If you look at good suggest data


More Reads:
labs.google(dot)com/suggest/faq.html
googleblog.blogspot(dot)com/2008/08/at-loss-for-words.html