Search Engine Optimization Blog » Internet http://www.matthewsdiehl.com by Matthew Diehl Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:09:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 State Rankings for Public Golf Related Searches http://www.matthewsdiehl.com/internet/state-rankings-for-public-golf-related-searches/ http://www.matthewsdiehl.com/internet/state-rankings-for-public-golf-related-searches/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:59:35 +0000 Matthew Diehl http://www.matthewsdiehl.com/?p=348 Related posts:]]>

At the end a recent quest to come up with a state-by-state search volume analysis for golf search phrases that related to the public golf course market I realized that not only have I come up with some solid numbers but I came up with a ranking order.

Some of the rankings are a no brainer as to where they showed up on the list: #1 Florida and #51 Alaska. It was however very interesting to see how the central part of the list (rankings #11 – #39) developed as I was crunching the numbers.

Now without further delay, here are the rankings:

  1. Florida
  2. California
  3. Texas
  4. Arizona
  5. South Carolina
  6. North Carolina
  7. Michigan
  8. Illinois
  9. New York
  10. Ohio
  11. Pennsylvania
  12. Nevada
  13. Indiana
  14. Georgia
  15. New Jersey
  16. Virginia
  17. Colorado
  18. Washington
  19. Oregon
  20. Wisconsin
  21. Minnesota
  22. Tennessee
  23. Maryland
  24. Alabama
  25. Missouri
  26. Massachusetts
  1. Connecticut
  2. Louisiana
  3. Kentucky
  4. Delaware
  5. Nebraska
  6. Utah
  7. Kansas
  8. Hawaii
  9. Mississippi
  10. Iowa
  11. Oklahoma
  12. New Hampshire
  13. West Virginia
  14. Arkansas
  15. Idaho
  16. New Mexico
  17. Rhode Island
  18. Montana
  19. Maine
  20. Vermont
  21. District of Columbia
  22. Wyoming
  23. South Dakota
  24. North Dakota
  25. Alaska

Think your state was unjustly ranked? or Want to boast? Share your comments below.

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It was pointed out today that the upcoming .Tel domains will be crawled by the search engines and will rely heavily on a 1990′s throwback technique of using a Keywords field to achieve rankings in the SERPs.

You can see an example of a .tel page on the Telnic website at : http://www.telnic.com

Note the “Keywords” field at the bottom of the page that includes a list of keywords that your .tel page appears to be relevant for. This field will definately stur up some old feelings and memories of what it was like to SEO sites in the 90′s using the long since abandoned method of keyword stuffing.

The search engine algorithms have long since evolved beyond being able to just throw a series of “keywords” on a page and expect to rank. As a domain, a .tel site can utilize links to increase rankings but the lack of content is sure to hurt them.

This leads me to believe that I will see very very few .tel domains ranking well in the SERPs.

The only place that I would expect to see a .tel domain is on a local search for a very specific service or product. In that case, a business may even want to invest in additional domains like floweristindianapolis.tel to secure some more exposure to the search engines outside just yourbrand.tel.

.Tel domains are still in landrush and have yet to launch.

I may be wrong, I may be right but only the future use of .tel domains will prove me eitehr way.

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