Posts Tagged ‘ Search Strategies ’
It is time for us to polish off our crystal ball and give our predictions straight from consumers’ fingertips for the hot products of the 2012 holiday season. Gadgets will reign across many ages Tablets including LeapPads, Tabeos, iPads, Kindles and others will continue to be a popular gift this year, with more choices than [...][ READ MORE ]
As with the rising popularity of the Super Bowl and the NFL, visits to the NFL Sites custom category* have increased regularly over the course of the previous 3 seasons, each with a seasonal peak in December. Between 2009 and 2010 share of visits to NFL Sites increased 71% while between 2010 and 2011 visits [...][ READ MORE ]
Predictions about the end of the world tomorrow, May 21, 2011 (not to be confused with the potential end of the world in 2012, predicted by the Mayan calendar) from Harold Camping, the president of the Family Radio, have been received with both skepticism along with believers working toward preparedness. Camping’s followers have been promoting [...][ READ MORE ]
The Guardian and The Independent are at loggerheads over whether Americans are bored with the Royal Wedding or utterly enthralled. But which newspaper is on the mark? Judging by Experian Hitwise search data, it seems that neither is quite right. It’s no surprise to see that web-users in the UK are performing more than twice [...][ READ MORE ]
Whilst Kate Middleton and Prince William have asked that those wishing to send wedding gifts refer instead to their Charitable Gift Fund, everyone else seems to view the Royal Wedding as a potential cash cow. From Papa John’s “pizza portrait” of the betrothed, to Lifetime network’s made-for-television movie “William & Kate – Let Love Rule”, [...][ READ MORE ]
What were the popular Valentine’s Day gifts this year? To identify new trends, we’ve taken a look at the top gift related terms that sent traffic to the Experian Hitwise category of Flowers and Gifts leading up to the much loved (or loathed) Valentine’s Day. The terms that sent more or less traffic to an [...][ READ MORE ]
Consumer electronics and gadgets are always popular holiday gifts and this season the iPod Touch, iPad and Amazon’s Kindle were among the top search terms for CE products over the past 4 weeks. The analysis is based upon a portfolio of over 16,000 products in the consumer electronics category to measure consumer demand. While these [...][ READ MORE ]
The anxiously awaited (confession – I bought tickets a month ago) sequel to Tron, Tron:Legacy opened in theaters after midnight last night. Naturally, with so much excitement about the movie, many fans were searching for information about Tron:Legacy online in the US and the UK. Variations of search queries for ‘tron’ and ‘tron legacy’ jumped [...][ READ MORE ]
The Social Security Administration may not be the first website that comes to mind when thinking about search or social, but these two sources combined accounted for half of the traffic referrals in October 2010. Search engines referred 43% of the upstream traffic to the website of the Social Security Administration and of those visitors, [...][ READ MORE ]
Websites that aggregate Black Friday deals from retailers always start to garner more attention in the weeks building up to the Thanksgiving weekend as consumers start to research upcoming holiday purchases. Early shoppers have already started seeking information around Black Friday promotions, driving the market share of visits to increase 12% last week as compared [...][ READ MORE ]
