Search Engine Gaming is considered a big; NO NO in the world of online article submission websites, although many of those who capture the content of these sites do all they can to game the search engines using the article content they collect. Recently a huge controversial industry Blog debate erupted like a Category VI Hurricane over miss spelled words in online article titles. You see, some authors were purposefully using common miss spellings of words and common typos of Internet search engine users to propel more article views. Did it work? Indeed a little not much. Of course those attempting this indeed are trying to get more bang for their buck. I happen to be the most prolific online article writer in the World presently with some 5600 online articles now. Last year I tried a purposely miss spelling concept as an experiment during Hurricane Season to pump up the click thrus and noticed that the articles views did in fact increase by about 18% which is significant really and yes it did work well, not overly significantly, but it did bring traffic; additional traffic worthy of some mention. Is that gaming the search engines? Perhaps, yet if this online article site did better in the search engines then I would not have tried that experiment; nevertheless that is only 11 articles out of 5600. The reason people are miss spelling article titles on purpose is trying to run redline and attempting to increase traffic. So my best advice to online article submission sites is to increase traffic thru better efficiencies on your sites so authors do not attempt to game the search engines with miss spellings. Consider all this in 2006. |
