Just one point of nitpickery here (and yes, spell check software will flag this neologism) that I feel compelled to point out since no one else did.

Mind you, this is a question of grammar rather than spelling, but as a professional nitpicker, I feel compelled to mention that the sentence

“There’s also the spell-check on webforms that the Google Toolbar offers, and there are numerous plugins for stuff like WordPress that does spell checking.”

should read:

“There’s also the spell-check on webforms that the Google Toolbar offers; and there are numerous plugins for stuff like WordPress that do spell checking.”

A great post though; if you want someone to do business with you, it’s imperative that you can demonstrate at least a minimal level of professionalism by bothering to use spell check.

chaos.

In reading the posts, I spotted at least four people who have corresponded or done business with me.

This is my question to all those who good SEO webmaster but can’t write good english. I meant don’t have good command in english writing.

What they do and how they do SEO for any site?

Thanks,

To Keith’s credit, I did learn, assuming he’s right, that my 2nd option (in the previous post) of putting the alternative spellings only in the meta content, would fall foul of Google.

When there are two correct-but-different versions of a word, how do I write my web source matter to appeal to both audiences’ search terms?

For example, if I write extensively about a “centre point” and yet 80% of my actual audience might search for a “center point”,

do I always add the clumsy-looking “(or center)” every time I have a “centre” in my content,
do I just add “center point” to my meta-keywords-content and stay with only “centre” in my main content, or
do I “fuhgeddaboudit” and assume that search engines know that there are two valid spellings of the word and make the appropriate substitutions when searching.

My guess would have been that the 3rd option would not work and I’d have to do some careful web content writing. However, and here’s the Hamtoucher connection, when I tested [theatre] versus [theater] on http://www.googlebattle.com (I don’t know why I didn’t test centre/center) one of the highest ranks for “theater” was the AMC Theatres Homepage which didn’t have “theater” anywhere — not even in any meta-keywords-content. It had “theatre” everywhere.

What’s happening?

Kind of ironic that this page is the first hit

If a site would get a penalty of any sort for spelling errors why do blogs not have an edit facility?

The sussequent comments or previous ones could subsequently make for an interesting read to especially if the answer to my last question became a part of a sub-sequence

Smile Please I write in jest but but it is light hearted and on topic as well as also having a serious side to.

I agree with the original and susequent posts that typos can lead to lost sales or people leaving a site. I have left sites and moved on myself for that very reason.

I also see the other side of the argument to and agree that typos can be used for gaining traffic and I do not mean by registering a domain similar to a popular site to steal their traffic by having a commonly used typo of that domain name. No I mean by using typos in a way that is merely a clever use of text content in order to catch traffic in a wholesome way that is just using insight to do so in a nice way.

I wrote an article some time ago about spelling and US Standard English and UK standard English (The link is in my name) and I pointed out in my article that British English and American English use similar words spelt slightly differently including the words “Optimiser” & “Optimizer” and “Optimisation” and “Optimization”.

Now the funnt thing about this is that prior to writing that article Google always flagged Optiser and Optimisation as typos/spelling errors on http://www.google.co.uk but not too long after putting that article online Google.co.uk stopped flagging Optimiser and Optimisation as a typo.

This has me wondering if it was merely coincedence that not long after I put that article online Google stopped flagging Optimiser and Optimisation as a typo or whether someone at Google read the article and tweaked things accordingly.

I for one would find the answer to “Why did Google.co.uk recently stop flagging Optimiser and Optimisation as a typing error or spelling mistake” very interesting.