Just had a play on the trends tool http://www.google.com/trends?q=andrew+king Andrew King is my husband and we live in Auckland, NZ. His site is at www.propertyinvestor.info and he doesn't rank for his own name. The local version of Google has AdWords from a competitor targetting his name: http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=andrew+king So, Google thinks he's irrelevant yet look at which location searches for the phrase Andrew King most often I know the SEO rules but you'd think they'd have some tool to look at why all these people don't find what they're looking for!
It helps settle some of the more important questions in life: http://www.google.com/trends?q=ginger,+mary+ann&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all http://www.google.com/trends?q=coke,+pepsi&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all http://www.google.com/trends?q=paper,+plastic&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all http://www.google.com/trends?q=color,+colour&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all
yeah, only people using american spelling need to search google to find out what a color is everyone else learnt when they were just babies Here's a primer red blue yellow
That's not how the trends are going. You better check with Google: http://www.google.com/trends?q=red+blue+yellow%2C+red+white+blue&ctab=1&geo=all&date=2006