Right. I did some digging and I think it's because this website is serving as a listing for itself and its competition, but would like to hear your opinion:

site ranking high: anders [dot] com [dot] mx

client: harmonhall [dot] com

keyword: escuelas de ingles

engine: google.com.mx

Thanks!

Hello everyone, I've been busting my head now for a bit and for the life of me I can't understand how this website is ranked #1 or #2 for a moderately competitive keyword (45% According to the Keyword Difficulty Report). Anyone has any idea how is this possible or how are they doing it? Please note page and domain authority as well...

Included: reports from SEOmoz and ahrefs

Thank you in advance!

With the purpose of protecting mi client's identity, I've hidden keywords and domains.

Keyword Difficulty Report

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This question is kind of old, but I have been researching because I had the same problem. Turns out GA doens't track visitors with javascript and cookies disabled. This could also account for a part of the non registered visits by GA.

I suggest you check the server logs. You'll probably find the data match there

More resources here:

http://cse-sea.blogspot.com/2009/09/troubleshooting-discrepancies-between.html

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/analytics/cotsK2GNh_w

Hope this helps someone else with the same problem.

Hahaha you work for the competition!

Yes, the complete site is in Spanish, however, most of my users are not searching with accents, which is the real issue here. frustrated

P.S. Saludos desde el DF

This is more of a problem for people optimizing for keywords in spanish, french, german and such.

It is well known that SERPs for keywords with and without accents are different. However, I haven't been able to discover how do I make the incorrectly misspelled keywords rank without messing up the site's content.

Another fact to take into account is that more than half the searches made in these languages are done without accents because, let's face it, it's just too much work.

An example of my specific problem: The misspelled keyword "cursos de ingles" is currently ranking higher than the correctly spelled keyword "cursos de inglés". However, the misspelled keyword "clases de ingles" is not ranking at all and the correctly spelled keyword "clases de inglés" is on the first page. How is this possible?

Now, how can I optimize the misspelled keywords to rank higher without misspelling the content on my site?

Thank you!

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