Nobody is making money with free content on the web, except search.
Interesting that search queries with 8+ words continue to rise.
Why? Quite possibly because:
1. People aren’t finding what they want via immediate searches. so keep adding words until they find what they want. Finding needles in haystacks take some effort.
2. People aren’t very good at searching effectively, so write things like: find me a hotel near the centre of London (that’s nine words by the way).
3. People ask a lot of questions when they search. For example, right now it’s Good Friday – as per Google Trends, the eighth biggest search right now is: is the stock market open today (six words), while the 16th most popular search right now is: are banks open on good friday (again, six words). These are the sort of searches that are on the increase.
Bottom line – plain English searches are becoming more common. There are so many opportunities for firms to incorporate these sort of questions into their online content, in the form of Q&As or other text. But instead, far too many write content in the most boring corporate speak ever.
My advice is to intercept search terms by creating content on their websites related to those search terms. By having organic search traffic, it makes it easier to rise up the search rankings and also reduces the weighted average cost of acquistion, as your organic search results share increases versus your paid search results share.
