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    • snoopcat
      snoopcat last edited by

      We have millions of urls and the technical expertise to write code to fix the spelling of keyword variants Google has discovered and shows us in Web Master tools.  Since Google has recognized these as variants, is it worth our time to write code that will fix the spelling of obvious misses?

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      • DanDeceuster
        DanDeceuster last edited by

        Are you saying you have misspellings of keywords on your pages, and Google shows you them in WMT? I assume this is what you mean. This means Google recognizes you are misspelling something. If you can fix the spelling of a misspelling, why wouldn't you? I would fix the misspellings if you are able to.

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        • snoopcat
          snoopcat @DanDeceuster last edited by

          Some definitely are misspellings, others are just variants.  The vast majority come from public forums where spelling is often an issue (or morons typing shorthand like they do on their mobile devices).  Since google clearly recognizes the properly spelled keyword and then also relates the misspelled variants, I wondered if it was worth the time to write code to fix these if google already recognized them as being the same as the properly spelled version.

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