IKEA Names Products After Common Web Search Phrases
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Brilliant SEO tactic! IKEA has a site where they’ve renamed 850 products to match commonly searched, ‘longtail’ search phrases. So, does it work to generate traffic? I did a search for ‘what to do if my daughter throws her clothes on the floor’ and the matching IKEA product shows up near the top of page 1 of the Google search results page!
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Callout #3 in screen snapshot above:
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