In one of those self evident facts that one never fails to remember (or, perhaps its just me at least), its important to remember that around the holidays people use keyword searches that involve the Holidays! Google does have some affection for me (20% of traffic is from Google searches), but its fleeting (still PR zero) — why not create some holiday affiliated loving in about … oh, say less than a months’ time to take advantage of it?.

Unfortunately, the problem is that you’ve got a lot of competition. Courtesy of the boffins at Neilsen Buzzmetrics, you can see the spike in blogs that use the word “thanksgiving”, and no surprise, it spikes right around … Thanksgiving.

But it does give one something to think about — for example, do keywords that are bid upon in AdWords suddenly change their value right AFTER a holiday? And if your site isn’t indexed fast enough before, because you’re in the Sandbox, what then? …. hmmmm … hmmmm ;)

tip: Matt Hurst, Chief Boffin at Blogpulse