{"id":21773,"date":"2018-10-21T12:52:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T16:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=21773"},"modified":"2018-10-21T13:05:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T17:05:20","slug":"the-seasonality-of-near-me-searches-in-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/21\/the-seasonality-of-near-me-searches-in-local\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seasonality of Near Me Searches in Local"},"content":{"rendered":"

Near Me searches have generally been on the uptick since the advent of the iPhone. But there have been the occasional downturns that were misinterpreted as a break in the trend.<\/p>\n

Now that we have more data, it appears that those downturns and subsequent peaks are seasonal lows and highs of a generally increasing \u00a0usage of the term in search.<\/p>\n

If you search<\/a> on “near me” using Google Trends for the US from 2004 to the present for all categories you can the annual July peak usage of the term:<\/p>\n

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Click to view larger. July has been the peak month each of the past 4 years for Near Me Searches.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Interestingly if you limit your Near Me trend results<\/a> to just the Shopping category, you can see both an annual July and a December peak in the usage:<\/p>\n

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Click to view the shopping limited Near Me trend larger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Near Me searches have generally been on the uptick since the advent of the iPhone. But there have been the occasional downturns that were misinterpreted as a break in the trend. Now that we have more data, it appears that those downturns and subsequent peaks are seasonal lows and highs of a generally increasing \u00a0usage …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t