Google Trends for Websites

[CHR]

From Webmaster World:

a new layer to Trends with Google Trends for Websites, a fun tool that gives you a view of how popular your favorite websites are, including your own! It also compares and ranks site visitation across geographies, and related websites and searches.

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=wikipedia.org

Comparison of FTD, 1-800-Flowers, ProFlowers and Teleflora

Comparison of From You Flowers, Blooms Today and Just Flowers

There's not enough data *yet* from most local florist sites to do comparisons.

Interesting tool, none the less.

 

[bloomz]

Very interesting to note how proflowers is kicking ass.

This one throws some perspective into the mix when you take the 3 biggest OG's and contrast them to the REAL big boyz.

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=fromyouflowers.com%2C+bloomstoday.com%2C+justflowers.com%2C+teleflora.com%2C+ftd.com&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

It certainly doesn't make them insignificant but it does show who has the most degree of impact in getting between customers and florists.

 

[BOSS]

Makes one wonder how many of FTD.coN's order volume is cloaked orders...:dunno:

Hmmmmm.....

 

[bloomz]

I've heard of tf cloaking but I'm not sure about ftd - do they do this?

 

[BOSS]

I've heard of tf cloaking but I'm not sure about ftd - do they do this?

In a "pig's eye"....

Sign me...gone fish'n

 

[coastieflowers]

scuse me??? Not sure what cloaking is. Can you explain?

 

[bloomz]

"Cloaking" - a term I believe coined by our old friend Shelby - refers to the practice of wire services transmitting orders for OG's that have difficulty getting florists to take their orders, hence making it appear as if it came from "the Mother Ship".

 

[coastieflowers]

thank you for explaining it to me. yes, I have that happen. Get a call from the og after I had rejected it.

 

[bloomz]

From FTD? I remember TF doing it, but I think Boss knows something I don't.

 

[CHR]

AFAIK, FTD cloaked the Wal-Mart.com orders and well as the ones sold by some supermarkets.

Look at it this way, it you see FTD products on a site and have never seen an order from the company cross your Merc, it's being cloaked - either by a florist, OG or FTD.

Cloaking allows some of the worst skimmers to hide their deeds from local florists.

 

[CHR]

Battle of the Directories: LocateAFlowerShop.com vs FindAFlorist.com vs FlowershopNetwork.com

Note the downward trend in traffic since Google introduced the Local One Boxes.

 

[bloomz]

Interesting - I added localflowershop.com and they apparently don't have enough traffic to even hit the map.

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=locateaflowershop.com%2C+findaflorist.com%2C+flowershopnetwork.com%2C+localflowershop.com&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

 

[Joe Mioux]

OK, now lets analyze this stuff.

You all can look at the trend lines and see the spikes at the appropriate holidays.

Here is where you need to put your thinking caps on. Find the OG, or drop shipper trend that beats the other business in a non holiday environ.

Also you need to look at the margins (the differences in space between each competitor ) and find out why one bus is doing better than the other.

Otherwise, I don't see much use in these graphs.

joe

ps I am open to learning.

pss I used to love this stuff. actually still do. had a great conversation with an old commodity friend this afternoon. we discussed all the "hedges" coming off the ethanol, biodiesel, hog feeding etc and the margins on corn v wheat, barely, milo.

Corn is a feed.... wheat and barley are food.

just good stuff for the brain. sorry going off kilter here ... i may have consumed one too many barley products in the conversation.

 

[David]

Interesting - I added localflowershop.com and they apparently don't have enough traffic to even hit the map.

I added FTDflorists.com and get the same