20-30% of Traffic is Misspelled: “Weird Al” Yankovic

How do people misspell weird?

Here’s an interesting tidbit from Spin Magazine’s recent interview with “Weird Al” Yankovic.

Spin asked Weird Al how often people misspell his name wierd (with the i and e reversed). He responded:

Quite a few. In fact, I believe we still have that spelling registered as a domain name. Scarily enough, I checked the traffic once, and 20 to 30 percent of traffic to WeirdAl.com is people searching for it with the incorrect spelling.

Now I’m not sure if he means WierdAl.com sends 20%-30% of the traffic or if people search Google for “wierd al” instead of “weird al”. Either way, if your domain name has ‘weird’ in it, you might want to register this (apparently) common typo.