Ready With Your Christmas Keywords?
This Christmas is going to be a very predictable one in terms of search keywords for one simple reason – it’s the first time we have been able to look back at last years keywords using Google Trends.
Imagine if you knew what was about to become a Google Hot Trend 365 days in advance and could prepare accordingly. How many of you have spent all year preparing for this years keywords? I bet the answer is zero.
Below are the terms that could hit Googles Hot Trends list in 2008. Some of them are UK only terms so probably won’t make the list because it’s US biased, they will still send lots of traffic though.
Christmas Eve:
santa tracker, santa radar, norad.com, norad santa tracker, santa norad
walmart holiday hours
santatracker.com
stores open on christmas
where is santa claus, santa locator
Christmas Day:
Restaurants open on Christmas
itunes.com (for people who got an iPod as a present)
www.zune.net/setup (for people who got a Zune as a present)
cooking prime rib
how to cook a turkey
how to carve a turkey
Boxing day:
turkey soup recipe
leftover turkey recipe
turkey curry recipe
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Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds SEO & Digital Agency specialising in SEO, Web Design, Development & Social Media.
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I am fairly prepared, I created a Christmas letterhead which I put online on December 1st, it’s bringing decent search traffic.
Ooh Patrick, I’d be really worried about going to my inlaws on Xmas day and finding “how to cook a turkey” on the computer! I think I’ll opt for ham this year haha
Cheers
Mally
Your boxing day list is very good Patrick, i think that will be the one to monetize for.
Anybody predicting what Google will be having as their search term on their predictably themed logo this year, any one remember what it was last year?
Regrettably, this blog is more and more a job / vacancies site instead of a SEO Blog. A few months ago you called on people to enroll at your newsletter because you have tips you’d better not post on your blog because they were a kind of black hat. I think this was a way to gather email addresses? so far I have, except job ads, recieved not a single valuable tip via email. Regrettably, I think your priorities lie on different area then inform your visitors about seo. I hope you good wish for 2009 is that you write more about seo instead of sideshow
Well if you don’t like it, stop reading…
The info here is good and worth reading, of course Patrick isn’t doing this for charity reasons, he’s using it to promote jobs and to try and rank this site for “search engine optimisation”. Just ignore the things you don’t like, and read the stuff that you do.
I certainly do not deny that there are very good articles posted on blogstorm. but ask people to subscribe to a newsletter so youcan send them good tips, and then only email vacancy ads , I find something that certainly does not belong to any seo blog
Ralph I think you must have subscribed to the Jobs feed by mistake.
Great idea on researching those Christmas keywords for traffic Patrick!
Interesting to see that the Microsoft Zune is coming back in favour, a few months ago it was highlighted that unless sales picked on on their 2nd generation model distribution of Zunes would cease- will be interesting to see how they compete against iPods and the new G1 phone in the New Year.
In regards to Ralph’s comment- i get the site blog posts via email however i did also signup (or so i thought) to the insider, not avaliable on the website, newsletter- i too have not recieved anything (as far as i recall) so perhaps there is a glitch in one of the email signup forms somewhere…?
Mike there is no glitch, we have just been too busy to send any out!
Well thats your own fault for being too popular! I’ll just have to continue to rely on your blog posts to keep me entertained during my lunch hour! :p
I love Google Trends and there is no such thing as too popular !
Looks Like keyword predictions were pretty well predicted. Santa Tracker was definitly a popular one this year.
thank you.
Another great article – thanks so much.
You got to push itthis essnetail info that is!