Purposely showing mis-spelled words for SEO advantages

I am cleaning up the content on my website, fixing all the spelling errors, etc. However, these mis-spelled words have been helpful for getting additional google traffic. So I thought I should still show them, but down below the article instead of inside the article. It might be something like this:

Commonly mis-spelled words from this article: exzema, exczema, ezecema

What are your thoughts on this idea?

Thanks!

What type of website do you have?
I run a .info, it’s my version of a “Credible Wikipedia” where my intention is to provide data integrity. I wouldn’t use a site that has misspellings, or link to it.

Now, stating you would leave notes changes my perspective. There are many words that most people don’t know how to spell, even I mess up spellings, and I’m pretty smart. Sometimes I just don’t care if I’m searching because Google takes misspellings into account.

I say keep it as you stated; it drives traffic, but instead of footnotes, you could place common misspellings (e.g., not mispellings) in parenthesis directly after the correctly-spelled word just to keep the flow.

That’s my opinion.

As @brianfrank says, I wouldn’t trust a site with misspelt important keywords. I don’t think you need worry about keeping those words on your site. If you try searching for one of the misspellings, you’ll find Google and other search engines correctly interpret the request and show results for eczema.

I think that technique tends to be used more where there is an alternative correct spelling e.g. aeon (eon), and might be confusing. It would also annoy me no end as a reader to keep seeing misspelt words like that.

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