Ranking for non-existent Keyword

I must admit that I still suck at spelling that some of my readers politely remind me of it (thanks to them). Other times, I just discover them days or weeks later when checking for search referrals.


One such incident is my post about Friendster Ads. My original entry spelled it Frienster, without the “d”.

The following day after posting that, I got some hits for the keyword “frienster” in Google. Realizing I made a spelling error, I immediately corrected it (though I know I’d be loosing visits from the serps after that.)

More than a week later, I still ranked 3rd in Google.com.ph for the “frienster” keyword, even though Google has re-crawled that page and updated its cache:

Friendster

That shouldn’t be the case. My blog should have dropped off the serps for it. Is it a bug of some sorts? And no it’s not a case of Google-bombing.

Will ask around.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

3 Responses

  1. Avatar for mike mike says:

    Hope they can make changes to it

  2. Avatar for Aaron Aaron says:

    google or even yahoo or msn robots thinks the keywords ‘friendster’ and ‘frienster’ are different and stores them separately on their machines.

  3. Avatar for JC John SESE Cuneta JC John SESE Cuneta says:

    I also notice the same thing. I think Google doesn’t care much or is keeping some sort of past cache of keywords.

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