According to Google Insights there are now more people searching for phrases with “poker online” than “online poker”.
Online Poker vs. Poker Online
The amount of searches for “online poker” and “poker online” on Google.
It makes me feel a little bit sad inside..
People Searching for “Poker Online” Don’t Know Anything About Online Poker…
…or that is at least what I like to thing (the Unknown Webmaster is pretty judgmental).
In general I would say that the people searching for “online poker” are pretty educated on the subject.
The people who are looking for “poker online” are looking for “poker” and then put the modifier “online” on the end because they want to play online. They aren’t familiar with the game, if they were, they would know that it is called “online poker”.
In my mind this mean that they are a bunch of mindless fish just who will inevitable lose their hard earned money 
While I certainly don’t mind an influx of clueless people to play against, I would really cringe at optimizing my pages for “poker online” instead of “online poker”.
“Poker Online” is The Next Big Thing in South America?
There seems to be a correlation between geographical area and what phrase people are searching for.
When looking at the maps below, you should keep in mind that the coloring are based on normalized data. If you aren’t familiar with normalized data, you may want to take a look at this description from Google Insights.
Lets first have a look at where people are searching for “online poker”.
Countries with the most of searches for “online poker”.
There isn’t really any big surprises here, so lets take a look at “poker online”.
Countries with the most of searches for “poker online”.
There are 4 countries on the “poker online” top list, that are very interesting, since they represent what is rumored to be growing markets.
- Brazil
- Italy
- Romania+Slovakia
I’m not translating any of my sites at the moment, so I can’t elaborate on the significance of those countries, however, when I get around to hire a translator, I plan on rewriting some of my articles to target “poker online” instead of “online poker”.
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Hi, Interesting point
Also take note that in those languages, at least spanish and portuguese, the online is used after the noun for everything.
Oh..
Thanks, I think I have some fixing to do
Hello mate. I thought i’d check out your blog after your post in the spam thread on pal, and i must say i’m impressed. Very nice. The guy above’s right in relation to the latin terminology though. And i personaly love people who search for incorrect search terms, as it usually means they’re new, and don’t already have accounts at just about every poker site in existence.
Thanks for the kind words – I’v had a half written follow up post for this one sitting in my dashboard for a little less than a month now. I should probably get it finished up, so the world will know that I’m now slightly less ignorant when it comes to Latin languages
Good observation on the typo traffic.