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Tacky Christmas Sweater – Ugly ones on Sale

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The day before Thanksgiving is probably your last chance to get yourself that Ugly Christmas Sweater for the Ugly Christmas Sweater office party next week! And believe me, this year there are going to be even more Christmas Sweater Parties than last year. The Craze is complete! It's the season...Now also in the UK!

Ugly Christmas Sweater Party

Are you ready for The Ugly Christmas Sweater Party?

According to my monthly traffic displayed below on the articles about the Ugly Christmas Sweaters, traffic is several multiples vs last year.

Ugly Christmas Sweater party traffic

Top Christmas Sweater Keywords

It's interesting to see the keywords people use when they search for an ugly sweater to wear to the office Christmas party. And although the top keywords driving traffic have not changed that much, only in the amount of visitors these were bringing going up, the long tail has grown significantly. Where in 2010 Q4 only 423 keywords containing the word Christmas were driving traffic, in 2011 that number has grown to 706 keywords, where the quarter is not even finished yet!

Top keywords for 2010 Christmas Sweater season were:

  1. Sexy Christmas Sweaters
  2. Outrageous Christmas Sweaters
  3. Ugly Christmas Sweaters
  4. Ugly Christmas Sweater Party
  5. Sexy Christmas Sweater

Top keywords for 2011 Christmas Sweater season are:

  1. Sexy Christmas Sweaters
  2. Outrageous Christmas Sweaters
  3. Funny Ugly Christmas Sweaters
  4. Sexy Ugly Christmas Sweater
  5. Sexy Ugly Christmas Sweaters
Long tail keywords being used this year are:
  • Naughty Christmas Sweaters
  • Funny Christmas Jumpers
  • Hideous Christmas Jumpers
  • Tacky Christmas Sweater

Christmas Sweater Parties now also in the UK

Where last year the search referral traffic to my site was primarily concentrated in the US and a little in Canada, this year the Ugly Christmas Sweater Party seems to be breaking though in the UK and Ireland too. We see that also in the keywords being used in the search referrals, as Tacky and Jumper are more used in the UK than in the US!
Ugly Christmas Sweater Party invitation

So get ready and buy your But Ugly Christmas Sweater before Thanksgiving to have it shipped to you in time for that crazy Chistmas Sweater party next week!


Tagged as: Ugly Christmas Sweater

Post by Dennis Goedegebuure

Santa Yoda made out of Lego

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To promote their website which sends out Star Wars themed holiday greeting cards, Lego and Lucasfilms are building a giant Yoda dressed up as Santa made out of Lego on Union Square in San Francisco. The website can be found on Legosantayoda.com.

Building Yoda dressed as Santa from Lego

Building Yoda dressed as Santa from Lego

Giant Yoda as Santa from Lego on Union Square in San Francisco

Giant Yoda as Santa from Lego on Union Square in San Francisco

Smaller Yoda as Santa looking over the Geek activities


Santa Yoda in Lego
Lego Santa Yoda

Large version of these pictures of Santa Yoda Lego can be found on my flickr stream under creative commons.



Post by Dennis Goedegebuure

Ugly Christmas Sweater Season is here

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It's that time of the year again. With the Christmas time in December, now it is time to start searching for that Ugly Christmas Sweater for the company Ugly Christmas Sweater party. And where else can you find these Outrageous tacky Christmas sweaters than on eBay! Because who would buy a sexy ugly christmas sweater for full price...? Two years ago I wrote a post on how you would look sexy in that Ugly Christmas Sweater, as I had access to the internal eBay search data and spotted the trend of the Ugly Christmas Sweater parties. For a year long, I worked on seeding the story with our PR team, to prepare for the 2010 Ugly Christmas parties. I used the example in my presentation at the Blueglass Conference in Ford Lauderdale, and wrote another story on why you should be early in the game for the most hideous Christmas Sweater on eBay.
Ugly Christmas Sweater Party invitation

Feel free to use the image above here as you Ugly Christmas Sweater party invitation

Ugly Christmas Sweater Season is here

From my internal Statistics I can see the season for the Ugly Christmas Sweaters is here again.

Ugly Christmas Sweater seasonal traffic
Last year, up to $1.5 million in Ugly Christmas Sweaters were sold on eBay, where there was no merchandising on the homepage nor other places were done.
So get you Ugly Christmas Sweater as soon as possible before they are selling out.

Tagged as: Ugly Christmas Sweater

Post by Dennis Goedegebuure

Apple Google Doodle

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Obviously this is a parody, and the below Google Apple Doodle is not affiliate nor endorsed by Apple or Google

With Steve Jobs resigning as CEO from Apple, Google is about to honor Steve with a truly Apple Google Doodle...
Apple Google Doodle

Update: Oct 6, This Google Doodle parody was published after Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple. Today, the parody is less funny with Steve passing. Still, Google did pay tribute to Steve with the link on their homepage. Very classy!


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Great SEO people, Thomas aka Thos003

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2010 Equinox, Summer turns into Fall

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Foursquare Church, Did You Check In?

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Did you check in with the First Foursquare Church? I wonder who the mayor is?

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Happy Fathers Day 2010

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For two weeks my daughter Jools, 3.5 years old, has kept a special fathers day secret. She made the card she gave to me this morning herself at pre-school. Summer break at school started 2 weeks ago, so the card has been made before the break started. Happy fathers day to all daddies!

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Hello Kitty Wedding Cake Topper

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German iPad

April 5, 2010

You know how much Germans love David Hasselhoff. They should change their national anthem to: I’ve been looking for Freedom”. So when my German colleague got an iPad this morning through the mail, we were all so surprised the iPad came with a pre-installed David Hasselhoff background. The book: Don’t Hassel The Hoff was a [...]

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