Well, it’s new New Year’s Day, and it’s also time again for some more cyclical search pattern fun. So here’s today’s search term:
And what region wins per capita searches for “hangover”? Why none other than Ireland. Really.
Other fun New Year’s searches: “Weightloss“, “Auld Lang Syne“, and “Taxi“.
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My brother Gabe wrote an interesting post highlighting how Google Trends searches show that Utah is a hotbed of Open Source. It reminded me that I haven’t plugged the Utah Open Source Conference that’s happening this week. This conference is something you don’t want to miss. I think you can still get tickets.
If your business is still not leveraging open source, you need to stop by to meet some of the people that can help you make it happen.
Now, on a separate nerdy note, I wanted to echo Gabe’s post by pointing out some business terms in which Utahans have peculiar interest according to search data in Google Trends. When it comes to industry related searches, we rank #1 for Multi Level Marketing, #2 in Outdoor Recreation, and #3 in Telemarketing.
Utah also does a disproportionate amount of searches for online business terms: we rank #1 for SEO, #2 for Internet Marketing, #1 for Web Analytics, and #2 for Internet Business.
Can you think of any other obvious top Utah searches? I’m looking specifically for business terms; although searches for jello, meth, and vouchers are interesting in their own right.
Tags: Business Terms, Community Events, Google Trends, Internet Business, Online Marketing, Open Source, Search Data, Search Engines, SEO, Utah, UTOSC, Web Analytics
Business, Not For Profits, Technology, Utah | Jordy | 
August 25, 2008 10:32 pm | 
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I hate to do this to you again, but I just find these cyclical spikes in search traffic way too interesting. (I’m a big-time nerder, I know.) Anyway, here’s another cool keyword volume chart for today, “Friday the 13th”.
This trend for “13″ by itself is also kind of interesting. I didn’t expect this, but I guess there must be some people out there who Google for current dates, as evidenced by minor peaks near the middle of each month.
It’s officially July 7, 2007 — 777 — and I have a distinct impression that today might be the best 777 this millennium. Except for the obvious esoteric number fun, I don’t attribute meaning to it –unless the rapture comes, in which case I’ll quickly edit my post. :)
What I am interested in, however, are search trends. I think Gabe said it best: “It’s interesting that ideas come in and out of the public conscious in a predicable fashion, but more interesting that those trends can be quantified by search trends.”
My prediction: searches for the term “777″ will spike, but not near as much as “666″ did. Besides being a less emotionally charged keyword, “777″ is landing on a Saturday — which means that search volume won’t be nurtured by corporate-sponsored slacker surfing.
Still, I think searches for “777″ will bring Boeing a small share of Google love (think about it), and Amazon may even sell a few more copies of “777 And Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley“. We’ll have to wait a bit for Google Trends to catch up and give us the full picture though –again, pending no rapture.
If you’re nerdy and find any of this keyword search trending talk interesting, check out my similar post on cyclical search trends.
As a side note, there are lots of SEO tools out there to analyze keyword popularity and search volume (WordTracker, Overture, and Google Suggest to name a few), and knowing how to use them can make website owners a lot of money. I’m generally more interested in the volume changes rather than total volume (slope vs hight), but you can make money (or get eyeballs) with either.
Tags: Google Suggest, Google Trends, Keywords, Numerology, Online Marketing, Overture, Search Trends, WordTracker
Business, Nerdiness, Technology | Jordy | July 7, 2007 1:34 am | Comments (1)
