Comments on: What is the right term? optimisation, optimization, optimalization or optimalisation

By: hummerbie

hummerbie — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:26:04 +0000

@Tim: ik weet het :-) It was a Dutch Joomla Optimization engineer from Joomlatwork.com, and they really, really make the best patch for Joomla when it comes to Search Engine Optimization.

And yes, I know there are some english mistakes on this Blog :-)

By: Tekstschrijver Tim

Tekstschrijver Tim — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:45:33 +0000

Great post. It's a common mistake, mostly made by the dutch. You see, we have the dutch word 'optimalisatie' which is translated to English all too easy as 'optimalisation'.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:27:50 +0000

I think its probably best to use the language that your readers are used to… and there are a lot more americans lurking around the web, so ‘z’ makes sense!!

By: Pathos.Seo

Pathos.Seo — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:15:43 +0000

Hello Joe,

Thank You for pointing this out to me!

I am from The Netherlands, so closer to the UK then to the USA.

But for my website and Blog I am more focused on the USA english part, sorry…

I will stick to Optimization for now :-)

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:41:22 +0000

SEO = Search Engine Optimisation if your english is from the UK. Basically the correct UK english spelling of Optimsation/Optimzation is Optimisation.

The correct US spelling is Optimization!

Take ya pick, are you feeling more british or american?

I am from the UK, so I am more inclined to go for the ’s’.

By: Pathos.Seo

Pathos.Seo — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:50:12 +0000

David,

Thank you for your comment, I don’t know either if Bruce Clay came up with it.

But for the Term search engine optimilization, I think it is just a “Germanism” meaning it just a bad translation from in this case the dutch word “optimalisatie”.

So another idea….
Black Hat optimization = Search Engine Manipulation….

By: David Temple

David Temple — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 04:24:28 +0000

I was reading a forum thread recently that was talking about who invented the term search engine optimization and the common thinking was that Bruce Clay had but there was no evidence. Maybe whoever came up with search engine optimalization is trying to brand that term. I like search engine manipulation, I think it might stick.