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Will Canadian English affect US SEO?
Posted by on May 31, 2020 at 5:01 pmI have a blog that targets the US audience predominantly but not exclusively. My posts are written in Canadian English. Canadian and US English don’t differ that much, but will Google penalize my ranking for US search results? Should I write in US English?
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6 Replies
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Huh good question – well Canadian English only has very minor differences like adding “u” in Colour, etc. I think that unless your top keywords are the ones with such spelling differences you’d be fine (i.e. your business selles colouring pencils vs coloring pencils)…
But I dont know, I would believe that Google recognizes nuances in spelling like color and colour to rank them equally.
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People are way overestimating what Google can do. I mean it’s just two years since someone ranked a page with lorem ipsum content.
I’d say it’s the same to Google. Don’t worry about it.
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I’m from the UK and target the US (I get most of my visitors from there at least). I use a US spell checker for this reason. I don’t think ranking would be penalized but your audience would expect their content spelled correctly for them.
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If your target is US write for US. If your target is Canada write for Canada. Because while we all know the proper way to spell words is our way (the Canadian way), those pesky Americans think their way of spelling is the correct way 🙂
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English really is different. But where did any of you see Google sharing English in any way (according to US / Canada / England / Ireland / India / etc.)?
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It may not be, but you need to make your audience clearly understand what you are talking about.
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