In the fast-paced, get-it-done-quick world of the
Internet,
"typo's" are a dime a dozen. "To err is human". We all
make mistakes.
But did you know that this very common human
frailty has
created some significant marketing opportunities?
You see, thousands of people are misspelling
search terms
:.. and many are tripped up by the same words, creating
little 'mini-markets' of opportunity (and sometimes not so
little).
Cashing in on these hidden opportunities is just
a matter
of doing some digging with Overture's Search Term
Suggestion Tool:
How about some real-life examples:
* Type in the term, "se*arch eng*ine",
correctly, and you
will find that nearly 1,500,000 people searched that term
at Overture in a recent month. Now search for that term
over at Google and you will come up with over 4,700,000
results.
That's alot of competition!
But in people's haste, 4,561 typed in, "seach
engine", by
mistake. Check that term in Google and there are less
than 56,000 results!
Sticking with this theme, 2,372 people also typed
in "search
engin". And if this many people are doing it at Overture,
it's likely that many, many more are doing it at Google.
Are there others in this niche? You bet! Just
go digging.
Are there some in your niche? Very likely.
Here's some
more examples:
* Type in "online casino" correctly at Overture and you
get over 2,700,000 searches ... and over 1,800,000 results
at Google! Again, tons of competition.
But "onlin casino" had 3,420 searches and only
8,800 Google
results. "Online casin" gets another 1,096 searches and
"online gamling" chips in with another 2,119.
Smart marketers in this niche could be gaining
new, highly-
targeted visitors by creating pages optimized for these
misspelled terms (more on this in a moment).
More examples?
* You know all that sp*am we get about via*gra? Well,
spam*mers could locate people who are really interested
by doing a little homework here as well. Nearly 2,000
people a month type in "viagar" and there are less than
4,500 Google results for this term, as opposed to 5,500,000
for the correctly spelled term.
* In the music business? Well, over 1,500
typed in
"mucic", resulting in only 10,800 Google results as opposed
to the normal 105,000,000!
I think you get the idea. What business are you in? What
are the most popular search terms for your niche? Have
you checked for common misspellings?
I happened to discover this tendency for
misspellings
totally by accident ... I misspelled something while doing
some research at Overture.
And I inadvertently discovered the "mother of all
typo's"
:.. one that gets over 40,000 Overture searches ... and in
a niche for an Affiliate product of mine!
And still more good news ... there were only
8,000 Goggle
results for this search.
I quickly created a page for this misspelled term
and have
had a #4 Google ranking with it for about 3 months now.
It's become the #2 entry page on this site, behind only the
home page.
No, I'm not going to tell you what it is. But I
suppose
there's nothing stopping the more motivated and persistent
of you from coming to my site (which one though?) to
discover it.
What I also found is that it wasn't necessary to
misspell
the term on the actual page created to attract these
searchers.
It's high ranking was achieved by simply using
the term as
part of the page name, in the meta tag title, in the meta
tag description and in several alt tags. To most
observers, the page looks normal ... and is getting
excellent clickthrough results.
So, have at it! Investigate your niche! Chances
are you
can find some interesting typo's for a nice stream of
fr*ee, highly-targeted visitors.
Joshua Rose cuts through the glut of Internet "hype" and
"false promises" to identify the "genuine" marketing
techniques that get results. For his "One, Two, Three
Quick Steps To Internet Profits", or to subscribe to his
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