Pirates, The Dark Side, Rule Halloween Searches
Expect the ghoulish staples this year: streets filled with ghosts, mummies, vampires, and werewolves. This Halloween also promises more contemporary characters as well, as trick-or-treaters reveal with their search behavior.
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With Halloween just a week away, knowing what keywords to focus on, as in all major seasons, is becoming a very important tradition. This year, think of pirates, superheroes, science fiction. And pay careful attention to keyword phrases to match how the searcher searches.
Yahoo's Buzz Log matches, very nearly, a pair of Hitwise reports on what the Halloween searcher is looking for this year.
Yahoo!'s list:
1. Ghost
2. Pirate
3. Zombie
4. Witch
5. Darth Vader
6. Aliens
7. Devil
8. Mummy
9. Frankenstein
10. Chucky
11. Dracula
12. Michael Myers
13. Werewolf
14. Elvira
15. Chupacabra
16. Goblin
17. Freddy Krueger
18. Headless Horseman
19. Bride of Frankenstein
20. Bride of Chucky
Hitwise's Heather Hopkins and LeeAnn Prescott took a different approach, filtering results for keywords and phrases that include "costumes." In the UK, Jack Sparrow has captured the greater imagination as much as he has in the US. Darth Vader is a character that never left that greater imagination.
UK costume searches, October 21, 2006
Pirate costume
Darth Vader costume
Wonder Woman costume
Medieval costume
V for Vendetta costume
Belly dancing costume
Victorian costume
Roman costume
Tinkerbell costume
Batman costume
This is the second straight year that pirates have ruled the costume search sea. Wonder Woman, too, is in the top three for a second straight year. But historical costumes have been replaced in the UK in favor of more entertainment-based outfits. In the US, it's not so different, even if it has a decidedly Disney bias.
US costume searches, September 16, 2006:
Pirate costume
Wonder Woman costume
Jack Sparrow costume
Mermaid costume
Tinkerbell costume
Curious George costume
Supergirl costume
Superman costume
Batman costume
Jasmine costume
Over at the WebProBlog, Chris Richardson explains why keeping tabs on seasonal search fluctuations is important:
Lists like these can be of major assistance when it comes time to selecting keywords and phrases to target on seasonal marketing campaigns. If your site carries items related to these queries, now is a good time to increase your focus. This includes local search marketing, especially if you own a brick-and-mortar costume shop that advertises on the web.
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