Unsurprisingly, Manchester United top the table for the most average monthly searches (in August), but Arsenal aren’t far behind with 2.9 million searches every month. Meanwhile, near the bottom, Hull City FC or perhaps Hull City Tigers, have had just 13,400 average monthly searches – even despite matches against Manchester United and Leicester City in August.<\/p>\n

Are clubs capitalising on Google Search volume?<\/h2>\n

A brief look at Manchester United around “manchester united tickets” shows significant Google Adwords advertising on this keyword. The likes of Thomas Cook – who as an official ticket partner – are bidding on this term, along with a number of other online ticket sites. However, the official ticket office has not PPC adverts running and could be missing out on driving their own revenue stream.<\/p>\n

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However, when it comes to official merchandise such as shirts – specifically a keyword like “manchester united shirt”, the official club megastore is bidding on the term and has a PPC strategy in place. Interestingly, the official club site faces stiff competition in somewhat of a bidding war against it’s own official partners – namely adidas and KitBag. It’s not just in the paid search arena that the United marketing team face a challenge. Mike Ashley’s SportsDirect actually occupies the Organic search #1 spot ahead of the official store, which suggests they may need to be some work done on United’s Search Engine Optimisation.<\/p>\n

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So, whilst the former Champions may remain one of the world’s largest sporting brands and most Googled football team in the Premier League, there may be still some work to do to absolutely maximise their marketing strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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