Comments on: Web hosting a downward trend?

By: Rabattkoder

Rabattkoder — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:40:11 +0000

Probably a bit late to chime in on this conversation but I believe this trend was due to people getting more sophisticated search patterns – these days (2 years on from this post) using 5 and 6 word combinations with geolocaters are much more common! Also in my business Voucher codes people will use those terms

so maybe people now are searching for

vps uptime “promo code” site:.co.uk

By: Michael David

Michael David — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:23:11 +0000

Hi,

Just found your blog on Technorati & Digg upcomming news feeds and read a few of your other posts.
ISeems good contents,Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

Thanks,
Michael

By: VPS Server

VPS Server — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:03:35 +0000

In my opinion now more people are relying on forums and blogs for the related information.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:36:00 +0000

From the Google Trends help page “Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time”

The graph doesn’t actually represent a decrease in the number of searches for “web hosting”, in spite of the downward slope there could actually have been an increase in the number of such searches. What the graph is actually depicting is a decline of the search term “web hosting” in the percentage of total searches for all terms. The only thing we can know for sure from this data is that people are searching for an ever-increasingly diverse range of terms. This is most likely explained by the fact that new users are going online ever day, and demographics are changing, and total search volume is increasing.

Basically if there were just 2 searches, one for “web hosting” and the other for “widgets”, then each term would chart very high as they would each represent 50% of total searches. Add in a search for “grommets”, and all terms drop to 33.3%.

By: dannyg

dannyg — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:43:04 +0000

I think web hosting is still in high demand and it will go up as people look for a way to make some extra cash. You can get high quality web hosting cheap no matter what it is for a web site or blog.

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By: Tom Aquinas

Tom Aquinas — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:04:09 +0000

I agree that more and more people are blogging, using the social network sites instead of purchasing web space.

By: Free Web hosting

Free Web hosting — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:52:08 +0000

Not just the web hosting but the term free web hosting is also showing down ward trend.

By: Startup Meme » Blog Archive » Web Hosting is facing a sharp decline

Startup Meme » Blog Archive » Web Hosting is facing a sharp decline — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:48:14 +0000

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By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:32:50 +0000

This is the case of a conclusion based on false assumptions.

The downward sloping graph is not unique to web hosting.. try other search phrases and you will see the same downward sloping trend. Examples: tropical fish, mountain biking, car paint.. etc.

The cause is not clear. Are people using more specific searches? The downward trend seems to be fore more obscure “longtail” search terms. Maybe google changed their algorithm in some way that affects more obscure results? Or maybe people are spending more time on major sites and less time searching for anything. Plus there are more people online than in 2004 and that is somehow affecting the results.

Google trends is useless for single search phrases. It is only useful for comparing several of them. “web hosting, rails hosting” instead of “wen hosting”.