‘Did You Mean’ Function On Google
SEroundtable have recently touched on the fact that the Google ‘did you mean’ feature was effecting some clients websites as the search engine was trying to be too clever. This not only moves the real results down but can lead search engine users astray.
I see this quite a lot when typing in customers key phrases, I have also seen it effect Creare.
When i first started to enhance our ’search engine optimisation’ listing i noticed that Google would try and point me too ‘search engine optimization‘ (notice the American ‘z’). The search has since evolved and now recalls the UK results for this phrase. I would suggest that Google will try and iron out any of the errors with such problems, but its search results can still be frustrating especially when liaising with clients.
We currently have an optimisation campaign with a client dore.co.uk. They wanted to appear for ‘ADD’ a huge phrase meaning (Attention Deficit Disorder). We have managed to successfully gain them a page 1 position in Google.co.uk, But their listing is less impressive due to Google added a ’see results for’ section in the middle of the page.
This has resulted in our clients web site being 10th rather than the actual placement of 6th. see image below:
As you can see from the search results, our client has been pushed down by a recommendation from Google that personally i think to be irrelevant.
References -
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/019340.html
