Let's say I was looking at a niche for the word "alot". Alot is a misspelling of "A lot". When I'm writing about "alot" should I try and spell it correctly, or keep it spelled incorrectly? Since the word is a common misspelling, it gets a lot of traffic so it'd be worth targeting. Alot is not the word I'm writing about but simply an example. It just feels weird spelling the word wrong on purpose, and maybe I'd get negative remarks from educated individuals? Not sure how to approach this. Thank you!
It's not worth targeting misspelled keywords anymore since they introduced the spell checking. If you go search for "wigdets", you'll see the search results for "widgets".
You mean through google? Searching "alot" and "a lot" you get two different results. If you could elaborate more that'd be great
Alot is a bad example because there are legitimate results that come up for "alot" and it isn't corrected. It's a company, a place in India, etc. Just try any normal term and misspell it slightly. Here try this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&biw=1280&bih=929&q=fyring+pan&aq=f&aqi=g-sv1&aql=&oq= See you get the results for "frying pan" even though you searched "fyring pan". You could optimize a page for the misspelling, but the people who make the mistake are always taken to the corrected results.
Lets say it's a common misspelling, then what would I do? (It isn't corrected by Google) P.S. Not trying to be a pain - Just the word wasn't corrected in Google.