HAVE you ever wondered what people in Clare are searching for online? Phone numbers for their local restaurants, hairdressers and doctors, sure. But where does the buck stop?
With so much information available online, it’s probably safe to assume you – yes you! – have been Googled by a neighbour. Today, The Clare Echo brings you the popular and quirky terms that brought people to our website.
Online analytics tell us a lot and can provide valuable insight on what really interests our readers. We can tell which specific search terms on Google brought readers to our website – something that is referred to as a ‘query’.
The query which brought most readers to www.clareecho.ie in 2022 was ‘Clare Echo’ (unsurprisingly) with almost 80,000 searches, followed by terms such as ‘Clare news’, ‘Clare jobs’, ‘Clare Echo sport’ and so on.
Each year, it’s no shock to see search terms like Davy Fitzgerald, Donald Trump, Willie Clancy Festival and ‘Domhnall Slattery net worth’ show up in our results. However when it comes to 2022 there aren’t many who created more interest than our Kilrush TD, Violette-Anne Wynne. Her name shows up four times in our top 100 search terms (‘Violet-Anne Wynne partner’ being one popular search term). For context, the next most queried politician was Cathal Crowe, who was the 230th most popular query.
Moving away from politics, the people of Clare showed their nosy side by searching frantically for ‘who won Win a House in Lahinch’ which brought thousands of readers to The Clare Echo website.
Sports content was a big pull this year and showing up multiple times were ‘Rory Hayes and Peter Duggan’, with frenzied Clare hurling fans searching for information on the pair’s retrospective red cards following the epic Munster final against Limerick.
Those red cards were ultimatley rescinded, however people can’t take back what they searched for and some of the smuttier search queries which directed people to our website included ‘Love Honey’, ‘escort’, ‘momxxx’ and ‘escort Clare’. We can only hope they spotted an interesting news story on our site before continuing with their private business.
Business queries often direct readers to our website with popular searches this year including Home Gallery Ennis, Supermacs Plaza Ennis, Shannon Airport, Shannon Ferries, Secret Dollhouse Ennis, ‘who owns Fiddle & Bow Doolin’, Collins Jewellers Ennis, Fairgreen Stoves and Ennis Electrical.
Other notable search terms which directed people to our website included ‘Meatloaf Showgrounds Ennis’, ‘will there be a fifth Aisling book?’, ‘naturism’, ‘Jim Conlon’, ‘botox Ennis’, and ‘the widest street in Ireland’.
