Comments on: Searchers Using Longer Queries in 2009

By: Longer Snippets Offer Greater Opportunities for B2B SEO | B2B Marketing Blog

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:16:33 +0000

[...] My friend and search marketing colleague, Matt McGee, recently had a post on his blog about the trend toward longer queries. I can easily see where Google’s presentation of longer snippets will only accelerate this [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:36:55 +0000

I am no expert but if more words are being used to drill down to more relevant content than this must be good news for the small businesses. For example, I am a hypnotherapist and I couldn’t expect to be on page 1 for the keyword “hypnosis” but I have a better chance of being ranked on page 1 for “stop smoking hypnosis london”

By: Small Ball Strategy in SEO | Justin Davy - Search Engine Marketing Professional

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:01:12 +0000

[...] sites takes a lot of time and resources. We’ve all heard by now that more users are using long tail queries as opposed to general [...]

By: Linkkraft: Golf online, SEO-Longtail, mobile Social Networks

Linkkraft: Golf online, SEO-Longtail, mobile Social Networks — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:08:18 +0000

[...] Matt McGee berichtet, wie sich das Suchverhalten in den letzten Jahren geändert hat (in US, also eine gewisse zeitliche Verschiebung zu uns angenommen). Laut Studie nahm die Suche nach nur einem Wort kontinuierlich ab – von 24,5 auf 21,1 auf 20,4 Prozent in den letzten drei Jahren! Geschätzt werden in 2009 rund 23,6 Prozent der Suchanfragen (”Queries”) zwei Wörter beinhalten, aber selbst dieser Anteil sinkt im Vergleich zu den”Longtail-Anfragen” mit 3,4,5,x Anfragen. [...]

By: Why the Teaching in Korea’s blog was created? « Teaching in Korea

Why the Teaching in Korea’s blog was created? « Teaching in Korea — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:31:22 +0000

[...] Finally, for our graphical pleasure today, we round off these trends with “teach in korea” which Google Labs appear to have less data on “teaching in korea” and “jobs in korea”, but definitely a bit more than “Teach english in korea.” I’m wondering if it has anything to do with the fact that four word keyword searches have been rising, but traditionally have been a lot less than 3 word sear…. [...]

By: MediaVision Blog : Search Engine Marketing » Blog Archive » In search queries long tail is best

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:40:34 +0000

[...] two or three words. And possibly why more people are using the long tail (4 and 5 word queries). Matt McGee reckons that the reason behind the increased use of long tail search terms is that people are now [...]