When we go to google, and type the information into the search bar, google now takes us directly to the information that google thinks we're interested in, rather than what we actually wrote...
That can only be good... right?
The answer is an equivocal yes...
It's always nice to see where a visitor has landed on my page after typing in an unrecognizable search term... But... I used some creative spelling when I first started many of my pages...
I've noticed that many of my pages that were created using alternate spellings don't get the traffic they did in former times...
Used to be.... type in daylilly, and my daylilly page was right at the top of the first page... Now you are taken to daylily with an option to search for daylilly....
People complained to me about how I spelled daylily...
The hemerocallis society added the alternative spelling to their meta tags...
I steadfastly refused to use the correct spelling, in spite of the complaints, when something works... don't mess with it...
Instead of the mad traffic my page formerly received, I'm now down to a trickle...
So... correct the spelling should be obvious...
I'm not expecting to place as well as in previous times, but... people might not have been getting accurate information from a page that was misspelled... Sooo... Google is helping me to correct my content... whether I like it or not...
Uh.... Thanks?
11 February 2011
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