Is Marketing 101 a good business course? Did you know that Room 112 is where the playas dwell? Someone searching 69 on the internet is either a sex freak or had the best time of there life in the summer of '69. Have you considered using numbers as keywords when optimizing your site for search engines? Consider the following monthly searches of numbers by Overture: - 1 - Almost 3 million people a month search the number 1. One is prominently featured in Air Force 1 and Formula 1.
- 2 - Almost 1.7 million searches a month for number 2. Two is a popular number as evidenced by 2Pac and 2 Fast 2 Furious.
- 3 - Almost 700,000 people search for the number 3. Three is part of 3D and, according to some, the upcoming World War 3.
- 4 - Again, almost 700,000 people search number 4 per month. You can find the number four in 4 wheeler and All 4 One.
- 5 - Close to 500,000 people a month search number 5. Number five is important to The Jackson 5 and for the working class working 9 to 5.
- 6 - I won't even bother telling you how many people search for the number 6; but, know that it is a lot, as there are for the numbers 7, 8, 9, and 10. Are you viewing this article on IE6?
It's strange that people type in numbers into s search box. What could they possibly hope to find when typing a number? I dont know. But I do know that numbers get searched and not too many webmasters optimize their site for numbers. Perhaps you should consider that?One more thing; commas make a difference. 1000 is searched 8645 times per month whereas 1,000 is searched 170 times per month. 1000000 is searched 205 times per month whereas 1,000,000 is searched 784 times per month. There are 336 words in this article. |