Google Forcing Spelling Correction For A Name/Keyword
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We work for a doctor who has a common name that she spells differently than the way most people spell it. So when you put it in Google Search, Google keeps trying to say "do you mean this spelling instead?" and it corrects it, but the name I'm putting in IS the correct spelling of the name. I'm worried this is going to affect how people will find her when they type in the correct spelling of her name in Google Search. Any solutions of how we can avoid this problem?
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Great idea, thanks.
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My first thoughts go to setting up and optimizing a Google+ profile for her, so that it starts nudging the Knowledge Graph in that direction.
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Here's why I am worried about it. I won't give the real name but for example if the name was Stacy Bar and the client spelled it Stacey Barr, when I type "Stacey Barr" into Google it keeps saying "did you mean Stacy Bar?" and it'll list all of the Stacy Bars in the area (and there are a lot). So I feel like if people are searching for this client and they put in Stacey Barr Google will try to change it with the correct spelling and list all of the people with that name that are not the person they're trying to find. Does that make sense?
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Hi Deedra,
As far as i know you can't avoid this because Google will always ask "do you mean this spelling instead?" because I presume her name is similar to any English word that is why Google always ask that.
I don't think it is going to affect because I have seen several times that users uses wrong terms (with incorrect spelling) but Google gives correct result most of the time and yes they do ask "do you mean this spelling instead?"
So I don't find any reason to worried about this and there is no way to avoid this (we can't control what users going to search in Google).
Hope this helps.
Thanks
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