Like Cruise Deals, Cruise Holidays 2011 is becoming a popular term. In fact any cruise or other holiday related term that includes dates is becoming important. People are now more savvy on how to search for what they are after, hence the inclusion of dates or destinations to search terms.

So Cruise holidays 2011 is being more specific that just using the term cruise holidays; it is telling the search engine to narrow the search down a bit.

As with last minute cruises from Southampton, cruise deals from Southampton is becoming more popular as a search term. In fact with 1,300 people using it a month it is the most popular of the two terms mentioning cruises from Southampton.

Our aim at Cruisegle is to the best cruise deals from Southampton from all the major cruise lines including P&O Cruises and Royal Caribbean et al!

By far the most important term is cruise deals when it comes to gaining traffic; this can be split into many different long tail keywords such as Cruise Deals 2011. When you think about it, cruise deals 2011 is a far better term for someone to use when searching for a cruise than cruise deals itself, why? Well it is trying to narrow down the search to cruise deals in 2011 and not any other date.

The last post that I shall write about Last Minute Cruises concerns Last Minute Cruises from Southampton. This term is searched around 720 times a month so is less effective than last minute cruise deals but worth trying to rank for. In 2010 last minute cruises from Southampton became more popular mainly due to the Ash crises that year.

Carrying on in the last minute cruises vain is the term Last Minute Cruise Holidays, this term when separate has 22,000 searches for cruise holidays added to the 8,000 for last minute cruises, however when used together this drops to just 260 people searching for the term each month!

Another term associated with Last Minute Cruises is Last Minute Cruise Deals; as can be seen this is a mixture of last minute cruises and the term cruise deals. While cruise deals gets 60,000 searches a month, last minute cruises only gets around 8,000. So what happens when you combine the two together to make last minute cruise deals? Well believe it or not last minute cruise deals only gets around 4,400 searches a month making it a relatively small cruise related search term.

When does a URL shortening service not really shorten a  link? When you set your canonical to not use the www. Cruisegle has never been www.cruisegle, it has always been cruisegle.com, which is written http://cruisegle.com/, the shortened version of it is http://goo.gl/qyfM, which is only 2 characters shorter.

There are some other factors as to why it is beneficial to use a shortening service for URL’s but for me it is like using short cruises or short Cruisegle!