Hidden Tags???
 

Is there a way to only show one version of a tag, but have the spiders pickup on hidden versions!

The particular need at the moment is regarding alternate spellings/synonyms.

For one term, I have found 23 other spellings/synonyms but only want to show the main one on the blog!

Possible, yes. Good idea? up to you.

you could define a particular class as display:none;

misspelled

you could define it in a separate layer where the layer isn't active, i.e. a css popup that is never activated. Search engines would still see it. Perhaps using absolute positioning to place it off the page.

Now, the problem is that what you want to do looks like spam to many of the search engines.

You might be able to do something like a disambiguation page... perhaps

Alternate spellings:

misspelledword

The idea here is that you aren't hiding it from the search engines, it gets the person to where you want them to be. I think of the possibilities, a never-activated CSS popup would probably be the safest, but, I don't know how smart the SE spiders are when it comes to things like that.

All of the other methods I would think their bots are smart enough to recognize that.

cd34 is bang on the money. That is clear cut search engine SPAM and they have been onto this technique for years. Only a matter of time before you get tossed from the index altogether if you are tempted.

What do you mean the spiders pickup on hidden versions? Is that on ranking or about the codes? what the spiders see?

Basically I'm been looking at my PPC keyword tools, and they show a bunch of searches for these different KWs, but I'm not seeing them so much on the blogs.

So if I am doing some keyword, there should be some way of pointing out alternate spellings, or typos without cluttering up the blog tags! Maybe a using a meta-tag, or something.

Tag = gray widgets
Alt. = grey widgets, gray widjets, grey widjets, gray wigets, grey wigets, gray wijets, grey wijets