WebProNews » Beaches http://www.webpronews.com Breaking News in Tech, Search, Social, & Business Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:32:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Beaches Tops In Web Cam Searches http://www.webpronews.com/beaches-tops-in-web-cam-searches-2007-07 http://www.webpronews.com/beaches-tops-in-web-cam-searches-2007-07#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:43:42 +0000 WebProNews Staff http://www.webpronews.com/?p=39302 Ah, the Web cam. So simple, so abused. But they can be used for good, and though you might assume the Internet (as in, the collective online population) uses them mostly for nefarious and seedy peeping-Tom purposes, that's not really true, not mostly.
]]> Ah, the Web cam. So simple, so abused. But they can be used for good, and though you might assume the Internet (as in, the collective online population) uses them mostly for nefarious and seedy peeping-Tom purposes, that’s not really true, not mostly.

Given, adult cams are in the top 10 in the SERPs, those back-alley neighborhoods aren’t what the majority are looking for when cruising for voyeuristic fun.

For the most part, they seem to like beaches. And not topless ones, either. For the Internet, web cams are for checking out things you don’t get to see every day.

I imagine people from Panama City might be interested in checking out Alaska, or those in Vegas might like to see live deer.

It’s an interesting facet of human nature, I think, that we ignore the glory that is around us and seek other glories. I live amongst the natural beauty of Kentucky, but rarely see it. When I lived in Japan, I passed Mt. Fuji every day as Fuji-san sat on the horizon like some ancient guard or some subdued, placated monster. Eventually, I didn’t notice it either.

At the base of Fuji was a forest called Aokigahara, or "Sea of Trees," a popular suicide destination as the magnetic field around the volcano disabled compasses, and people would go into it, basking in the symbolism of being lost and never find their way out again. It was said to be haunted by thousands of ghosts.

They should set up a Web cam there to see if it’s true. Ghost cams, according to Yahoo’s Erik Gunther, are the second-most sought after types of cams, right after live beach cams.

If you’re thinking of setting up some kind of Web cam site, these are the top 20 things surfers are looking to escape to:

1.    live beach cams
2.    ghost cams
3.    key west cams
4.    las vegas web cams
5.    zoo cams
6.    alaska web cams
7.    myrtle beach web cams
8.    panama city beach cams
9.    live traffic street cams
10.    live deer cams
11.    hawaii web cams
12.    galveston web cams
13.    yellowstone web cams
14.    cruise cams
15.    animal cams
16.    alaska weather cams
17.     jackson hole webcams
18.    volcano cams
19.    panda cams
20.    colorado web cams

]]> http://www.webpronews.com/beaches-tops-in-web-cam-searches-2007-07/feed 0 Keyword Report: Indiana Has a Beach? http://www.webpronews.com/keyword-report-indiana-has-a-beach-2007-06 http://www.webpronews.com/keyword-report-indiana-has-a-beach-2007-06#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:47:19 +0000 WebProNews Staff http://www.webpronews.com/?p=38609 Searches for beach information have spiked, according to Yahoo, just in time for the start of summer. Searchers are even looking for beaches in Indiana.
]]> Searches for beach information have spiked, according to Yahoo, just in time for the start of summer. Searchers are even looking for beaches in Indiana.

If you’re like me, someone searching for "Indiana Beach" sends you into hysterics as you remember miles of straight, flat roads lined by corn stalks – and absolutely nothing else until you get to Indianapolis. Either that, or some gangsta wannabe misspelled what he was looking for. It’s spelled bee-otch, I think.

Indiana Beach is actually an amusement park on the shore of Lake Shafer.

As for real beaches (not bee-otches), South Carolina’s Myrtle Beach is the people’s champion, coming in as the number one search. North Myrtle Beach (for the old folks that like their oceanic getaways quieter, less commercial, and with fewer cruising teenagers) made an appearance at number 13 as well.

Virginia Beach, another rather quiet spot (at least it was 20 years ago – it could have and probably has changed), comes in just behind Myrtle. Why so many East Coast beaches on the list? Well, three-quarters of the US population is east of the Mississippi River.

For those of you search marketing to the beach crowd, here are the top 20 searched-for beaches, according to Yahoo.

1.    Myrtle Beach
2.    Virginia Beach
3.    Panama City Beach
4.    Indiana Beach
5.    Laguna Beach
6.    Daytona Beach
7.    Pismo Beach
8.    Orient Beach
9.    Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
10.    Huntington Beach
11.    Long Beach
12.    South Beach
13.    North Myrtle Beach
14.    Jones Beach
15.    Rehoboth Beach
16.    Falcon Beach
17.    Newport Beach
18.    Blizzard Beach (Disney World)
19.    Venice Beach
20.    West Palm Beach

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