I've just seen something very interesting!
I've just noticed that I'm listed #8 for "south beach diet". I haven't been listed for that term since I started my south beach diet site way back at the start of 2004.
This is despite TOTALLY gearing my site for the term (misspelling) "southbeach diet". I don't think I have a single backlink with the anchor text "south beach diet". The only time the term "south beach diet" appears on the page is once right at the bottom.
Something else that has happened since the last update is sites totally optimized for the normal spelling "south beach diet" have risen above me for the term "southbeach diet".
This is REALLY interesting and kinda says to me that Google is almost certainly using some sort of semantic recognition in the ranking algs that has associated the two terms as being closely linked and meaning the same thing. I can't think of any other reason as to why this should happen.
Anyway, I'm off to optimize some of the on page content to try and get a better ranking on the main term now I know I have a chance with it. So if you see more "south beach diet" terms, then I've added them since writing this.
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