Comments on: SEO for Startup Businesses: Strategy http://www.forgeseo.com/seo-strategy-for-startups Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Melanie Pulzer http://www.forgeseo.com/seo-strategy-for-startups/comment-page-1#comment-144 Melanie Pulzer Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:10:04 +0000 http://www.forgeseo.com/?p=237#comment-144 Google has some help on this article, <a href="http://www.google.com/support/insights/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=87276" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/support/insights/bin/answer...</a> , apparently the numbers are normalized and represent a % of total searches done in Google. I guess this is mainly only good for people trying to compare a lot of terms to see...uh...trends? :) Google has some help on this article, http://www.google.com/support/insights/bin/answer... , apparently the numbers are normalized and represent a % of total searches done in Google. I guess this is mainly only good for people trying to compare a lot of terms to see…uh…trends? :)

]]> By: Matt Mehlhope http://www.forgeseo.com/seo-strategy-for-startups/comment-page-1#comment-143 Matt Mehlhope Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:56:18 +0000 http://www.forgeseo.com/?p=237#comment-143 James - Melanie is correct about the Insights for Search statistics being normalized information by Google. You can run a comparison of 5 terms and the best practice for this is generally to run 5 similar terms (e.g., Shoes, Running Shoes, Nike Running Shoes, etc) and see how they compare to each other. Also, you could run a comparison on searches for two competing companies or products, so maybe "Blackberry" and" iPhone" and see how it changes over the years, when they are most popular, etc. Hope this helps. James -

Melanie is correct about the Insights for Search statistics being normalized information by Google. You can run a comparison of 5 terms and the best practice for this is generally to run 5 similar terms (e.g., Shoes, Running Shoes, Nike Running Shoes, etc) and see how they compare to each other. Also, you could run a comparison on searches for two competing companies or products, so maybe "Blackberry" and" iPhone" and see how it changes over the years, when they are most popular, etc.

Hope this helps.

]]> By: Melanie Pulzer http://www.forgeseo.com/seo-strategy-for-startups/comment-page-1#comment-142 Melanie Pulzer Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:23:18 +0000 http://www.forgeseo.com/?p=237#comment-142 Google has some help on this article, <a href="http://www.google.com/support/insights/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=87276" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/support/insights/bin/answer...</a> , apparently the numbers are normalized and represent a % of total searches done in Google. I guess this is mainly only good for people trying to compare a lot of terms to see...uh...trends? :) Google has some help on this article, http://www.google.com/support/insights/bin/answer... , apparently the numbers are normalized and represent a % of total searches done in Google. I guess this is mainly only good for people trying to compare a lot of terms to see…uh…trends? :)

]]> By: James http://www.forgeseo.com/seo-strategy-for-startups/comment-page-1#comment-141 James Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:38:28 +0000 http://www.forgeseo.com/?p=237#comment-141 I looked at the google tools you mentioned and I am a little confused about how they work...I can see these "trends" but I am not sure how to read them, there are no definite numbers it just shows a value of 1-100...what's the deal? I looked at the google tools you mentioned and I am a little confused about how they work…I can see these "trends" but I am not sure how to read them, there are no definite numbers it just shows a value of 1-100…what's the deal?

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