It is interesting to watch this once classic term decline in favor of the easy to type acronym. As of this month SEO has become the most popular.
Many of those searches were being done by SEOs checking their rankings on the big 4 – apparently, there is not such an extreme obsession to rank high for that term, compared to the past several years.
Perhaps, the focus now is on more refined terms.
This is according to keyword discovery. There latest results show a dramatic decline in the concern over the SERPs. http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/directory/Business/Marketing-and-Advertising/Internet-Marketing.html
Here are their achieved results from 8 months ago http://blogoscoped.com/forum/87734.html
Yahoo no longer updates the Overture tool, but it would be nice to see some comparison on their end: http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/?term=search_engine-optimization
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Google Trends shows more searches for [SEO] since before 2004:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=seo%2Csearch+engine+optimization&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 |
There's a higher chance of people misspelling Saerch Enigne Optimazztion than SEO I suppose. |
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