I run a fairly popular motorbike/motorcycle website however I have something of a quandary relating to the best term to use. In the real world I never refer to a motorbike as a motorcycle, so just about everything submitted to the site uses "motorbike". However, for no particular reason I googled both terms, with the following results: Motorbike - 11,300,000 results Motorcycle - 89,500,000 results So it would seem that motorcycle is by far the more popular term, so from an SEO perspective should I change my ways and use motorcycle instead of motorbike. Using both, seems a bit hmmm odd - for example: "Motorbike/Motorcycle Maintenance Guide" Seems a bit redundant, at least from a human perspective.
Your logic may be a bit flawed here. I would first go check the adwords tool and see what folks are actually searching for. https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal I typically just do it for folks and send it to them but I am in the middle of something right now. Also, Vansterdam made a good post about this a few days ago here http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1313645 hope that helps... serps and what folks are looking for are two entirely different things. Nigel