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!

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.

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!

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!

Toddler Ugly Holiday Christmas Sweater Size 7X    US $.99

VTG Puritan Acrylic/Wool Blend Sweater Deer Elk Ugly Christmas Mens XL    US $17.99

Ugly Christmas Sweater Nutcracker Vest Sz S    US $29.99

Ugly Xmas Sweater, Womens    US $19.99

ugly christmas sweater party winner merry xmas ya filthy animal holiday t shirt    US $13.00

VTG RED MICKEY MOUSE ACRYLIC SWEATER M L XL UGLY CHRISTMAS MENS WOMENS MEDIUM    US $69.99

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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

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

Smaller Yoda as Santa looking over the Geek activities

Lego Star Wars Minifigure 4 Lightsaber 1 Black minifig weapon darth vader yoda    US $6.98

star wars lego christmas yoda figure.    US $6.24

LEGO STAR WARS YODA ALARM CLOCK CLONE WARS    US $32.50

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

Lego stars wars Darth Vader Mini figure book Unique for collector!    US $10.00

LEGO Star Wars Darth Vader minifigure Keychain *Great Gift and Cheap*    US $11.99

Lego Star Wars DARTH VADER Minifig - 6211    US $7.99

Lego Star Wars 10143 - Death Star II, UNOPENED NEW IN BOX    US $405.00

Lego Star Wars Mini Figure Lot 2 Imperial Death Star Officer 6211 7264 AT AT ST    US $4.99

LEGO STAR WARS 9676 - TIE INTERCEPTOR WITH PILOT AND DEATH STAR    US $17.99

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Santa Yoda made out of Lego

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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.

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.

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.

Toddler Ugly Holiday Christmas Sweater Size 7X    US $.99

VTG Puritan Acrylic/Wool Blend Sweater Deer Elk Ugly Christmas Mens XL    US $17.99

Ugly Christmas Sweater Nutcracker Vest Sz S    US $29.99

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Ugly Christmas Sweater Season is here

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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...

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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Apple Google Doodle

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Did you ever wanted to get a black shirt with your quote on it just before a conference for you to wear? Just make sure you get on the good side of Thomas, aka Thos003. First time you meet, he will tell you he is killing bugs. No, not the bugs in software, but rather the real deal. Thomas is the SEO for a pest control company, Bulwark Extermination.

A couple of weeks ago, I was in Florida for the BlueGlass conference in Fort Lauderdale. Thomas made me a shirt with a quote I used in a panel on SMX advanced in-house session. A few weeks after the SMX advanced in Seattle, Thomas asked me what the acronym was I used on the board. I figured he wanted to use it in some internal presentation, so I shared it on Twitter:

Thomas: @TheNextCorner What was that acronym you used for #SEO priorities?

Me: @Thos003 LUMPS > Links, URL's, Meta Tags, Page Content & Elements, Sitemaps

Little did I know he would had something else in mind; Thomas brought to Florida my own quote printed on a t-shirt! Check this out:

To show off in the office, I put on the t-shirt the  first day I got back from Florida. Posing in front of the eBay logo:

Black Shirt SEO via Thomas, aka Thos003

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Great SEO people, Thomas aka Thos003

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And before you knew it, the summer is over. The 2010 September Equinox falls on 23 September 03.09. The Fall Equinox is the moment when the night and day span exactly the same amount of hours.

An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth's axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the center of the Sun being in the same plane as the Earth's equator. The term equinox can also be used in a broader sense, meaning the date when such a passage happens….An equinox happens each year at two specific moments in time (rather than two whole days), when there is a location on the Earth's equator where the center of the Sun can be observed to be vertically overhead (in astronomical terms, the subsolar point), occurring around March 20/21 and September 22/23 each year….On a day of the equinox, the center of the Sun spends a roughly equal amount of time above and below the horizon at every location on the Earth, night and day being of roughly the same length.

If you ever have the chance, go check out the Equinox in Chichen Itza.

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2010 Equinox, Summer turns into Fall

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

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Foursquare Church, Did You Check In?

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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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Happy Fathers Day 2010

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Will the Hello Kitty Wedding Cake topper become the new standard on wedding? I don’t think so, or at least, I don’t hope so. So why would I write about a Cake Topper if it’s not that interesting?

Every person has their own favorite examples they always use to make a point. A couple of weeks ago, somebody asked me why we were not ranking on Ernie Banks Baseball Cards. So we hacked a page together to try to rank.

Today, a new challenge came along. The Hello Kitty Wedding Cake Topper. These Kitty’s are selling for some serious money. There are currently a couple listing on the eBay.com site, where these sell for between $50 and $150! Those are some serious Wedding Cake Toppers…

Find a Hello Kitty Wedding Cake Topper on eBay

Hello Kitty Wedding Crystal Cake Topper. Personalized.    US $49.95

HELLO KITTY SANRIO wedding Cake topper Gift LOT pink    US $193.00

Personalized Hello Kitty, Heart Wedding Cake Topper    US $24.75

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Hello Kitty Wedding Cake Topper

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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 give away included in the package…

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German iPad

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