Searching For Xmas Pet Products - A Snapshot

To online pet store owners, packing and posting off orders of pet Christmas stockings, dog toys, seasonal cat treats and the rest, may feel like quite enough to do - but if you want to make the most of the season, now is also the time to update your search engine keywords. In the past two weeks some seasonal search terms have crept into the UKPets top 50. At the moment the phrase 'christmas presents for dogs' is heading the pack.

Each year we invite our advertisers to return to the Directory and update their business listings to include their Christmas products. Many fail to do so and are surely missing out. However, we record the search terms our visitors use on the site and also the terms they use in search engines to find UKPets. To help you to optimise your listings we are revealing our most recent popular, and seaonal, keywords and phrases:

Finding UKPets

As ever, the most popular keyword combination that finds this site on the Internet is 'Pet Shops'. For most of the last 5 years UKPets has been at number one for this Google search. Our current top 20 are:

pet shops
pet stores
pet world
pet shop
pets at home
pet shops uk
pets at home
pet products
pets shops
pets
pet supplies
petsmart
pet stores uk
dog shops
christmas presents for dogs
pet supplies uk
pets uk
petsmart uk
types of worms (eh??)
uk pets

At No.15 is 'christmas presents for dogs', but 10 seasonal searches just outside the top 20 - and making a move up the list in the past fortnight are:

dog christmas presents
pet jewellery
pet charms
christmas dog presents
cat friendly.. (combined for: hotels, accommodation, b&b)
xmas clothes for pets uk
presents for dog owners
pet calendars 2008
cat toys
xmas presents for cats

Meanwhile, the latest most popular searches within the UKPets Directory are:

London
Walker
Litter
Toy(s)
Christmas gift(s)
Sussex
Oscar
Coats (designer, dog)
Boutique
Rabbits

The 3 most popular sections of the Directory at the moment are: (1)Pet Shops, (2)Veterinary and (3)Arts & Gifts.