German Search Study

I found this study on the habits of German search users. It's not that long of a read but not overly entertaining. Some of the data is a bit dated, but likely does indicate overall differences in how Germans search. There are some noteworthy hiighlights(compared to US searchers):

• Germans use fewer words, avg 1.66 terms
• Boolean operators are seldom used
• Germans tend to stick to one Search Engine
• Germans search for Porn less freqently
  

Pulling Keywords From Content

Aaron Wall lists a number of great gems in his latest post about tools that pull the best keywords from content. These tools actually look at the text and pull out the top traffic keywords to target.

Coolest Google Query String

This is probably the coolest Google query string I've seen. Awesome way to check rankings.

• http://www.google.com/ie?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=minimalist
  

Google Changes Supplemental Query

Google dropped the standard supplemental query, but this simple site search seems to replace it and return supplementals:

• site:http://www.yoursite.com/&
  

Live Search Now Supporting Sitemap Discovery

MSN Live Search is now supporting sitemap autodiscovery via Robots.txt.

Local Search Terms

I was surprised by the results of this quick study. Small Business SEM assembled a list of top search queries in cities throughout the States and Craigslist related terms do very well, typically in the top 2.

Post Labels Added To OnceadaySEO

hdouble commented that subject tags for posts would be a good addition to this blog. Occasionally searching back through posts to find some gem of information or tool that I want to use also shed some light on this problem. So, I've added labels and they will be listed on the right sidebar. I'm not sure I can be bothered with going back through all my previous posts. One of the labels I will create will be a Tools label and all the Tools I've blogged on so far are fairly valuable, so I'll probably go back through those.