Checking search amounts for typo

[11jsd]

Hi, does anyone know how to check the search volume for a typo? this particular typo returns 250,000+ pages on all major search engines, so it must be quite common. Any ideas how to check this anyway?

Thanks

James

 

[petrosc]

You can check the search volume with an overture checker. http://inventory.overture.com
The resulting number represents the number of searches done on the specific term on the Yahoo network, during the previous month.

check the overture of the domain with extention. If it has a score then it probably has traffic too.

 

[11jsd]

Hi, thanks for the reply. http://inventory.overture.com link doen't seem to work. Would this lead to the same as logging in and to going to 'add search terms' (or something liek that), if so this automatically corrects the spelling when it returns the results.

Any more help?

Thanks

J

 

[petrosc]

try http://www.overturecheck.com/ then

 

[BidNo]

As Petros noted Overture is your best bet though it sometimes corrects typo's, doesn't respond, etc. You can also try alternative in my sig for the AOL search data. It's a much smaller source, data is static, etc., etc. (read disclaimers on the opening page). However it should give you an idea as to whether people actually search with this typo. Don't know about this case but correlation to Ovt on domain w/ext seems roughly 1:300.

Cheers,
BidNo

 

[11jsd]

Thanks again, unfortunatley overturecheck also corrects typos. Results on vurr aren't great, shame

 

[hugegrowth]

search engines are getting smarter with typos, some of them now automatically revert to the correct spelling for the search, or if you search for two words together, like 'carparts', it automatically splits up the words for you. this will make it harder in the future to get search rankings for typo domains and two and three word domains.

as for search volumes of typos, if you are seeing the typo being used in lots of webpages, then it's obviously a sign that lots of people are commonly misspelling the word. 250,000+ pages would be a high count IMO. You also have to consider if the correctly spelled word is a trademark, or if the correctly spelled word even gets any type in traffic.

You can also check the search page returns of the typo vs. the correct spelling. Say if you get 250,000 seach pages for the typo and 2,500,000 pages for the correctly spelled word, that's a ratio of about 10%. If you get 50,000 for the typo and 5,000,000 for the correct spelling, that's 1%. good luck!

 

[DNA]

As Petros noted Overture is your best bet though it sometimes corrects typo's, doesn't respond, etc. You can also try alternative in my sig for the AOL search data. It's a much smaller source, data is static, etc., etc. (read disclaimers on the opening page). However it should give you an idea as to whether people actually search with this typo. Don't know about this case but correlation to Ovt on domain w/ext seems roughly 1:300.

Cheers,
BidNo

1:300!!! I feel it's less