A small challenge...

[Edwin]

Here's the puzzle: aside from London, does any UK city score higher on GKT (exact match) than Blackpool does?

I've tried a whole bunch of places and so far Blackpool's tops, but you never know...

 

[Retired_member41]

Glasgow and Edinburgh seem to score the same as Blackpool

But Liverpool beats them all by a mile.

I did try Salford first but nope

 

[Edwin]

Wow, that was quick Well done.

 

[leeds1]

leeds of course

 

[Rob_F]

Leeds is a another one that matches Blackpool (90k)

Edit: Leeds1 beat me to it.


- Rob

 

[Edwin]

I was looking for "higher" - I had already spotted several equal scores...

 

[Rob_F]

Glastonbury 201k :-D

- Rob

 

[Retired_member41]

Edited, how dumb am I? Never realised Glastobuty was a City

 

[Edwin]

Glastonbury 201k :-D

- Rob

Wow! That's pretty amazing - or maybe not so much when you think about the hundreds of thousands going to the festival...

 

[Sussexite]

Blackpool's tops for the locals....

But globally Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester give it a sound thrashing.

I guess not too many American tourists plan on adding Blackpool to their grand tour of Europe.

 

[fish]

Glastonbury is not a city rather a town, nearby Wells however is but is small in terms of size/population

 

[retired_member34]

The global Liverpool figures are huge! Football do you think?

 

[Ashton]

Liverpool tops even london (locally)

 

[retired_member13]

In terms of global exacts, places like Newcastle, Birmingham, Brighton and Windsor are higher.

When you take into account the Premier League effect, football geos such as Chelsea [165,000], West Ham [165,000] and Arsenal [823,000] get massive searches.

I'm guessing that Blackpool has benefited from the Premier League effect also, as the exact match has rocketed since they were promoted - it's reading 33,100 in December 2009 increasing to 110,000 October 2010, although seasonal tourism is also likely to play a part.

Interestingly - if you look at the exact match for a Premier League team reference that isn't a geo, eg [Wolves] it gets roughly the difference between the 2009 and 2010 Blackpool figures - 60,500.

 

[JMOT]

Roll up Roll up, free keyword research for edwin required...

 

[Bailey]

Roll up Roll up, free keyword research for edwin required...

Me thinks, table is being laid for a sale I've done it too often myself

 

[retired_member13]

Roll up Roll up, free keyword research for edwin required...

Lol, happy to help out....

 

[retired_member34]

Me thinks, table is being laid for a sale

I think you'd have to prise blackpool.co.uk/.com from his dying hands! Fabulous pair of domains.

 

[Edwin]

I think you'd have to prise blackpool.co.uk/.com from his dying hands! Fabulous pair of domains.

Correct, they're not going anywhere. Why would they? And if I ever did sell, they sell themselves instantly - starting a thread about GKT does absolutely nothing to affect their saleability.

I just did a bit of digging then figured there's enough interest in the geo space that others probably have a lot of the answers already. A lot of intriguing info came out of this thread, and I really appreciate all the input!